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Show NEWS SUMMARY. It is c.xtimulcd that Argentina will have l,rO0,OOO tons of maize available for export. Diilicuities on the White pass trail between the Northwest mounted police and the American customs officers have been adjusted. The original rolls of the Cuban army were delivered to Governor-General lirooke in Havana at 8 o'clock last Friday evening. Governor Lee has written to President Presi-dent McKinley demanding the return of the South Dakota volunteers from the Philippines. It is announced that the Spanish minister of marine will submit to the chamber a bill for the construction ol tho ten ironclads. The Spaniards and Cubans express dissatisfaction at the appointment of Scnor de Gonzales Lopez as Spanish consul in Havana. The striking Mount Olive and Staunton, Staun-ton, 111., coal miners have resumed work pending arbitration at Chicago and East St. Louis. An order has been passed by the Ottawa government prohibiting the importation of liquor into the Yukon territory for the present. General Maximo Gomez has been chosen the representative of the Cuban army to the Americans, with full power to treat for the army. At a political mepting at Logrono, capital of the province of that name, Spain, violent speeches were made against former Premier Sagasta. The secretar3' of state has directed the return to their posts in Spain of the United States consuls who were obliged to leave on account of the war. Arrangements have just been completed com-pleted for the consolidation of the hoop-iron and cotton-tie interests of the country. Capital stock, S33.000,-000. S33.000,-000. The president has prepared a proclamation procla-mation setting apart 136,000 acres of land on the south side of Lake Tahoe, California, as a forestry reserve and public park. J President McKinley is in receipt of a private dispatch from Manila, to the effect that the manifesto recently is- I sued by the Philippine commission had done much good. The local subscription fund promised prom-ised by St. Louis of $5,000,000 for the Louisiana Purchase centennial, to be celebrated by a world's fair in 1903, is from all appearances a certainty. The Missouri senate has passed and sent to the governor for his signature the. house bill prohibiting the employment employ-ment of non-residents as deputy sheriffs, deputy constables or police officers. Attorney-General Monnettof Ohio is preparing the information in reference refer-ence to the alleged attempted bribery by the Standard Oil representative which he will file in the supreme court. General Maximo Gomez is paying no attention to the signed statement of Brigadier-General Aleman, for some time Cuban secretary of war, accusing Gomez of buj'ing cattle at personal profit. The Chinese government, according to a dispatch from Shanghai, has assented as-sented to the proposal to open three new ports in the provinces of Kiang Su, Kiang Si and Ngan Hvvei or An Hui. The officials of the British foreign office say the Marquis of Salisbuiy has agreed that in the decisions regulating the provisional measures to be taken in keeping order in Samoa, unanimity will be observed. The idea that the Americans were .favored in connection with the award of the Atabara bridge contract to a Philadelphia firm, which has aroused some feeling ini British engineering circles, is ridiculed in Cairo. London Daily Mail, hitherto a strong advocate of conciliating Germany, anent the Samoan situation, says: "We are bound to admit that the German Ger-man press and officials are pushing matters rather far, but we look to Emperor Em-peror William's moderating influence to preyent further trouble." The Cuban army muster rolls, which were delivered to Governor-General Governor-General lirooke the other day, show on their face the total of 48,000 names 0,000 commissioned officers and 42,000 non-commissioned officers and privates. Major-Gcueral Lee has rented a house with fifty rooms at Quemados, and there seems to be no doubt here that he will be appointed governor of the province of Pinar del Rio and of all Havana province outside the city of Havana. Captain Hufi'nagel, manager of the Germun plantation at Vailele, where the fatal ambush in Samoa was devised, de-vised, has been transferred from the British cruiser Tauranga to the German Ger-man cruiser I'alke, at the request of the consuls. The instructions of this government to the commissioners appointed to represent rep-resent the United States at the Czar's disarmament conference, which is to meet at The Hague during the lattet part of May, have been prepared by Secretary Hay. t |