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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The Epu-orth League convention convened at Indianapolis the 20th. The Dreyfus court-martial will not begin its sittings until August 10th. The total out-put for the season in Klondike is estimated at S20.000.000. The lack of the usual fall of rain in Cuba is delaying the maturing of the sugar crop. The war department has chartered the steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry horses to Manila. There is no con firmation of the report re-port that Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa will resign. The Volksraad at Pretoria, in secret session, has adopted the seven years' franchise proposition. Christian A. Geoft'rion, member of the Canadian cabinet and a distinguished distin-guished lawyer, Is dead. News of the Arctic whaling fleet is that so far it has been a bad year, as very few whales have been seen. The Federal government has sent agents to several points in Texas to secure horses for service in Cuba. Tremendous storms have destroj-ed bridges and prostrated telegraph wires in Chile, interrupting communication. The new tug Fearless, recently built for the Speckels brothers, San Francisco, has been chartered by the government. Abe Rothschild, a notorious diamond thief and crook, has been sentenced to erve three years in the Texas penitentiary peniten-tiary for forgery. United States Consul Jenkins has cabled the. state department that San Salvador is in a state of siege as a result re-sult of revolutionary plotting. The past week closed the period of two years prescribed by the Ding" ley tarriff law within which recipros-ity recipros-ity treaties may be negotiated. An English syndicate has paid $215,- 000 for the Iowa and Yellow Jacket groups in Boise Basin, Idaho. They join the famous Gold Hill group. Governor Bradley of Kentucky has declined to call a special session of the legislature or send troops to Clay county where a feudal war la in progress. pro-gress. The Mark Lane Express says that the British wheat promises a full average aver-age yield, and barley an average, and that the oat crop is distinctly deficient. de-ficient. A reciprocity treaty, under the pro. visions of the Dingley law, has been negotiated between Portugal and the United States, and went into effect the 20th inst. Americans built the first street railway rail-way constructed in Korea. It is an overhead electric trolley road, six miles in length, and runs through Seoul, the capital. The Argentine minister of finance proposes to reduce the taxes on foreign for-eign insurance companies from 10 to 5 per cent, raising those on Argentine corporations from 2 to 5 per cent. From John Sherman's closest friend and former law partner, Henry C. Hedges, it is learned that the venerable venera-ble statesman is improving slowly from his recent illness and hopes to be about again soon. The triple murder of an American named Ward and two Japanese women at Yokohama, the supposed cause being be-ing jealousy, brings an American sailor named Miller under the Japanese law as the suspected murderer. The agricultural department's foreign for-eign crop report for July states that commercial authorities estimate the shortage in the Russian wheat crop at from 85,000,000 to 120,000,000 bushels, as compared with last year. The United States district attorney at Jacksonville, Fla., has been warned from Washington to beware of filli-bustering filli-bustering expeditions from the Florida Flori-da coast to Honduras, Nicaragua and other Central American countries. The. removal of tresspassers white settlers from the Leech Lake Indian reservation, has been postponed until August 23, by order of Assistant Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior Hitchcock. The settlers are vigorously opposing removal. St. Vincent, Cape Verde islands, reports re-ports the Italian steamer Centro America from Montevideo June 30, for Genoa with 020 passengers, has beeu towed there for a distance of 300 miles having been disabled y the loss of her propeller. Work has begun on the construction of a passage from the cell of Capt. Dreyfus to the hall in which the court-martial court-martial before which he is to be tried will sit. This will enable the prisoner to escape the aunoj'ance of observation by the curious. General Shafter will be retired on j October 10, when he will reach the age limit. Friends are endeavoring to j have him retained in the service, but 1 the law is mandator- and the only relief re-lief possible would be by a special act i of congress. The war department is in correspondence corres-pondence with General Brooke with reference to withdrawing the battalions battal-ions of troops from Cuba. The troops, it is thought, may be needed for ser- j vice in the Philippines vhen the rainy 1 season is over. |
