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Show NEWS SU3MABY. Spanish Is to be taught in the Chioa-fo Chioa-fo public schools. The town of Oricaba, Mexico, la nw Infected with yellow fever. Negotiations are progressing; b3' which New York capitalists will acquit ac-quit e every salmon cannery in British Columbia. Baron von Tell, a Russian, has pur-;hased pur-;hased a sealing vessel and will undertake under-take an expedition into the north polar regions next spring. The European demand for American ipples is unprecedentedly large this year, exceeding that of last year by a. million and a quarter barrels. The first steps toward the prohibition prohibi-tion of unnecessary noises in Chicago have been taken by the officials of the health and police department. The British Foreign office denies the jtatement cabled New York that concessions con-cessions on the Alaskan boundary question have been decided on. The Y'oung People's Temperance Federation of Chicago is considering plans to establish coffee houses in all parts of the city as substitutes for saloons. sa-loons. Administration officials do not expect ex-pect to experience any trouble in se. curing the consent of Lord Salisbury to abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwet treaty. Secretary Root has authorized the quartermaster's department to charter the "Olympia," the "Sictoria" and the 'City of Rio" to transport troops to the Philippines. Prince David Wawanakoa of Honolulu, Hono-lulu, who is in Washington visiting his aunt, ex-Queen Liliuokalani, in an interview, says that annexation is a decided success. Rio de Janiero has notice from Ber. lin that the Duke of Saxe has sold to the German government lands in Santa Catherine, estimated at over 1,000 square leagues. The resignation of the Argentine ministers is regarded as a condemnation condemna-tion of the policy of Gen. Rocas regarding re-garding Brelil and the delivery of the missions treaty. During a recent typhoon in China the dyke of the Tsaongo river, near Shaoshlng, gave away, inundation was widespread, hundreds of houses being swept away. Jimlnez, the leader of the successful revolution, has been received in tri umph at Santiago. Public feeling seems to be unanimous in his favor a a candidate for president. Eighty men were out all Sunday night fighting fire south of Englewood, 8. D. on the Burlington railroad. At sunset the wind abated somewhat which saved Englewood from destruction. So far as known this is the hottest summer ever experienced in London. Meteroloo-ical records have been kept for only twenty-keven years, and show a maximum of 90 in the shade. J. G. Johnson of Kansas is to be the active manager of the work of the Democratic national committee in all of its branches until after the adjournment adjourn-ment of the next national convention. The navy department is seriously feeling the effect of the heavy advance in the steel market. Ship-building firms are asking for extensions of time in which to complete contracts undei way. According to a dispatch from Kobe, Japan, the United States transport Morgan City, which was wrecked while transporting troops to the Philippines, Phil-ippines, is a total wreck. No lives were lost. The schooner Lisgar of Toronto ha been lost about sixty miles from Goodrich, Good-rich, Ontario. She was in tow of the stearmer Clinton, loaded with coal from Buffalo. It is feared the crew are all lost. Count Esterhazy repeats his statement, state-ment, in an interview published in London, that he did everything by order or-der of Colonel Sandherr and his superior super-ior officers. He says he will reveal all in a short time. Preparations are under way for the establishment in Chicago of a hotel on the plan of the Jlills hotels of New York city, where patrons can secure a first-class room, including bath, for 2C or 30 cents a night. By the explosion of a calcium light tank filled with carbonic acid gas in the Chicago Calcium Light company's machine room Frank Ilopkins was fatally burned and Howard McClcne than was severely injured. John y. McKane, formerly the political politi-cal boss of Coney Island and whose trial and conviction 1804 for ballot-box ballot-box stuffing gave him national notoriety, notori-ety, is dying at his home in Coney Is. land from acute dyspepsia, The Shanghai correspondent of the London Times, who recently visited Korea, telegraphs that he has found Eussian ascendanc' completely supplanted sup-planted by Japanese and he does not believe that the new influence will be easily displaced. The hospital ship Belief, accordia to government officials, is not made useless by her condemnation by the inspector in-spector of hulls and boilers. She will sail for Manila about September 15th, where she will serve as a permanent floating hospital. |