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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The Porto Riean relief bill has passed the senate caucus. In a sawmill explosion at Muncie. Ind., three men were killed. The navy now has two vessels engaged en-gaged in making surveys in Cuba. Governor Jones of Arkansas has announced an-nounced his withdrawal from the senatorial sen-atorial race. More than 4,000 cavalry, infantry and artillery recruits sailed for the Philippines Saturday. The eeusus of the five colonies, just completed, shows the total population of Australia on January 1st was :i,500,-000. :i,500,-000. Sydney, capital of New South Wales, and Adelaide, capital of South Australia, Aus-tralia, have been declared infected with the bubonic plague. In German colonial circles it is feared that after Great Britain annexes the Transvaal the Hoers will trek into German Southwest Africa. At a public meeting held iu Limerick a resolution to present an address to the queen during her visit to Ireland was enthusiastically adopted. The separating house at the Hercules Her-cules powder works at La Motte. Mo., blew up Thursday aud Peter Bucks and Edmond Carter were blown to atoms. Harper M. Hood, law partner of United States Senator Teller has been elected department commander of the G. A. R. , Department of Colorado and WyomiDg. In Chicago a Coroner's inquest has exonerated ex-onerated Bertie Finch the sixteen-year-old Austin boy who to protect his mother's moth-er's life, shot and killed his father, George Finch. Twelve thousand dollars were realized realiz-ed from a concert at the Metropolitan opera house, New York, for the benefit of the Bed Cross and Maine hospital ship relief funds. One of the elevators in the seven-story seven-story factory building at 247 Center street, New York, broke its cable and fell seven stories, injuring three of its occupants fatally. Lieut.-Col. Prior Mr. Fisher, dominion minister of agriculture, states there are no cases of bubonic plague in British Columbia, but there were several in Port Townsend, Wash. The date of the departure of the Mafeking column fron Kimberley has not yet been fixed. The head of the railway has reached Chicont, about three miles from Kimberley. The brig Tropic Bird, which has arrived ar-rived at San Francisco from Tahiti with a cargo of copra and over 24,000 cocoanuts, reports that all was quiet on the island when she sailed. It is announced in military circles in Monterey, Mex., that Secretary of War Bernado Reyes has determined to send at least 4,000 reinforcements to the troops now in the Yaqui country. Kang YuWei, the Chinese reformer, who was reported a month ago to have sailed for London, has returned to Singapore secretly in a pilot boat, and has lived in Singapore ever since. The house pension committee has decided to increase to S40 a month the pension of the widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel John M. Hamilton, Ninth cavalry, cav-alry, who was killed at the battle of San Juan. The house committee on public lands has directed a favorable report on a bill allowing a single woman who locates lo-cates a homestead entry on unplatted lands to complete the eutry after her marriage. Under an agreement just signed the contest between Andrew Carnegie and 11. C. Frick has been closed and the law suits are ordered stopped. A new combine has been formed with 3:J00,-000,000 3:J00,-000,000 capital. President Loubet of France has decided de-cided to pardon Baron Christiana, who last June assaulted him on the presidential presi-dential stand at the races, and who was sentenced to four years' imprisonment imprison-ment for the offense. Western railroads have practically decided not to accept the government's proposed settlement for military business, busi-ness, provided there is a possible chance of successfully attacking the ruling in the courts. An important decision has been handed hand-ed down by the Illinois Supreme court winch removes voluntary assignments from the jurisdiction of the County court. Under this decision the Federal court will have absolute jurisdiction. Several hundred miners marched into Booneville, 111., from the surrouudino-country surrouudino-country and closed the Wooley, Ilestor and Kelly mines, which are 'operated with non-union men. A riot occurred and several non-union men were badly hurt. 3 The parliamentary conflict between the radical opposition and the Italian government over the hitters indemnity indem-nity bill for the illegal measure taken last year to suppress the disorders at Milan aud other points has reached a critical stage. Lord Roberts, while inspecting the naval brigade on the plain outside the own of Bloemfontein, wished good luck to those who were about to rejoin ab'p. and expressed the hope that the others would bo present at the entry into Pretoria. |
