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Show NEVVSSTBIiIARY. Fourteen persons were drowned by the .apsizin of a ferry boat on the Danube near Straubing, Bavaria. Forty-eight locomotives have been ordered of the Schwartzkopf works, Berlin, for the Russian railway in Siberia. Si-beria. S. Jackson Close, an aged merchant and postmaster at Stanwich, Conn., was attacked by robbers and beaten to death. The Grand Central railroad of Eng" land has placed an order for twenty locomotives with the Baldwin works of Philadelphia. Harry Lasell and Richard Xeal, while digging for relies at the site of ( old Fort Mackinac, Michigan, unearth-I unearth-I ed six complete skeletons. Ten persons were drowned at Sim-lach, Sim-lach, Bavaria, id the river Inn. one of the principal affluents of the Danube, by the capsizing of a boat. The London Truth, in spite of semiofficial semi-official statements to the contrary, insists in-sists that an operation for cataract on the queen's eyes is inevitable. England, on the completion of ships now under construction for her navy, will, it is said, be in a position to meet the combined navies of any two powers pow-ers of the world. Mrs. Emma L. French, wife of Alfred A. French, one of the best known architects archi-tects of Cleveland, committed suicide. She had been ill and feared that she was becoming insane. Speaking before the Colonial Aid society so-ciety of New York, General Guy V. Henry, late governor-general of Porto Rico, compared the Porto Ricans to the North American Indians. Benjamin Franklin Clark, consul at Pernambuco, died on board the Lamport Lam-port & Holt line steamer Hevelius, on May 19, of Bright's disease, and was buried at sea the same evening. At the banquet of the Congregational club at the Pamer house, Chicago, representatives rep-resentatives of the colored race discussed dis-cussed with their white brethren the problem of the negro in the south. A large portion of the government of Astrakan, on the northwest coast of the Caspian sea, has been submerged by an overflow of the river Volga, which divides it into nearly equal parts. There is a great scarcity of meat on the Hawaiian islands, due to the fact that much pasturage land has been planted with sugar, and the native herds have consequently been much reduced. Ten dock laborers at Buffalo, N. Y., were sent to the penitentiary for thirty days. They were about to return to New York and after drinking freely, wrecked a saloon near the Lehigh Valley Val-ley station. Charles Hutchinson was shot and killed by his wife during a family quarrel at Arcadia, lnd. The woman pleaded self-defense. She is but 26 years of age and Hutchinson was her fifth husband. Sir Clarence Ross, representing an American syndicate, has offered to purchase pur-chase the municipal electric light plants of Shanghai, on condition that the purchaser is given the right to establish es-tablish tramways. The lord lieutenant of Ireland, Earl Cadogan, has released O'Hanlon, Mul" let and James Fitz-IIarris. alias "Skin the Goat," the last three Irish political prisoners who were sentenced to imprisonment im-prisonment for life. The Yukou &, White Pass railway is now completed from Skaguay to the summit of the pass, a distance of about eighteen miles, and for a distance of about twelve miles further the roadbed is ready for the rails. Chief Wilkie of the secret service has announced the arrest in Chicago of William Coleman, a silver teller in the sub-treasury there, on a charge of having hav-ing abstracted silver from bags received re-ceived from the banks. An American missionary has recently created a good deal of amusement at Simla, India,by beseeching the officials to buy his books and attempting to secure se-cure the aid of Lady Curzon, wife of the viceroy, in reformin g Simla society. In San Francisco Judge Coffey issued an order directing the ex-ecutors of the estate of the late Adolph Sutro to dispose dis-pose of much of the property of the estate, and steps will be taken immediately imme-diately to sell about 81,000,000 worth. The estate is worth several millions. In the case of the Westinghouse Electric Elec-tric & Manufacturing company against the General Electric company, for violation vio-lation of its contract, Judge Coxe of the United States circuit court, Utica, N. Y., filed his decision, allowing the demurrer of defendants, filed last month. It is reported that Perry S. Heath, assistant postmaster-general, and his brother, Fletcher Heath, have negotiated nego-tiated for and practically acquired a controlling interest in the stock of the Seventh National bank of New York city. Mr. H. II. Hanna, chairman of the monetary executive committee. Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, lnd. .expresses himself as highly pleased with the program for monetary mone-tary tariff reform agreed upon by the Republican congressional caucus committee. |