Show NEWS the volcano of Asa mayana was la eruption last and lava fell on the adjacent villages the chinese peace have agreed to the demands of the powers for concessions to be used for legation sites in pekin according to a I 1 ondon correspondent disquieting rumors ate again prevalent in that city with regard to the health of J pierpont morgan gen russell A aler former secre tary of war mrs alfier and russell alger jr have sailed for europe to be gone about three months A party of officers from the british transport Atlant lan while bathing in colombian harbor were attacked by a shark which killed II 11 lowrie in san francisco courts judge has continued until june ath the con test of charles L 1 air to the will of hie father the late james G fair the federal is urging upon tl e imperial authorities the desirability of obtaining for the british crown possession of a island british reinforcements are still go ing to tl e cape from southampton the war office is not suspending ac tive preparations for a continuance of the war gen daniel beckles is willing to be elected commander in chief of the grand army of the republic at the national encampment to be held in cleveland to handle the large surplus of wheat the millers of new bouth wales are forming a combine and will maintain export commercial agents in london and elsewhere it Is said th it by july 1st a cotral civil government will be established in manila with J idge tuft as governor and a legislative council composed of americans and filipinos lili pinos drs moore of and linhart of juneau have been investigating the smallpox epidemic at sitka and the former says there is no doubt of the prevalence of the disease an ancon firmed report h is been re calved from rosemead south africa that general dewet with a small commando and a long to u has crossed into Zu ruburg district of cape colony the navy department depart nent has sent or ders to admiral kempff to send home the ships concord marietta and castane from tl e asiatic station during the latter part of the coming summer take care of tl e forests says a tennessee paper in announcing that out of a single tree in dyer county a citizen had got four cords of firewood three gallons of 1 oney and five rac coons admiral walker chairman of the isthmian canal commission has re turned to washington to prepare his final report on the engineering feasibility of a ship canal across central america it is officially announced that the hungarian wheat and rye crops are medium and flat birley is me hum except in the intermountain district the crops generally require mild weather and rain the dominion government has decided to give a bonus of 5 per ton on canadian refined lead to and not exceeding in any one year the bonus will be available in the same way as the iron bounties from information in possession of seattle it is believed that johnson who corn bitted suicide by morphine poisoning in that city re bently is a brother of ex governor joanson of alabama The steamship northwestern from chicago to I 1 liverpool iver pool which collided with a dredge belo v the galloup rapid and ran her bow nearly twenty five feet upon the bank has been floated sustaining very slight injury capt murray beecher and cerecer loring and harvey of the guam survey board returning from the american island where they have been engaged on government curvey work have aniced at victoria the philippine commission has ac a great amount 0 import ant work in the southern islands where the insurrection is almost tor gotten trade is being developed and the people prepared for civil government the revolt in the provinces of moca and lavega san domingo has proved a failure the operations of govern ment troops led by vice president vasquez have been successful and the rebel leaders have been made prisoners owning p the fact that german coal merchants are rasing prices the swiss railways and manufactories have accepted an offer of the rockefeller coal company to supply coal at the price at which the germans formerly supplied it the naval board finds wireless heleg raphy feasible and recommends its adoption in th navy and tl at the use of carrier pigeons be abandoned it advises that technical instructions in wireless telegraph y be given at the navy karfis the loss of the steamer federal off the australian coast during the heavy gale at the end of march is re ported and thirty two person were lot with her aix bodies were re covered they were badly mangled by wild dogs fhe celebrated itata ease involving a claim of against the govern ment of the united states is about to be determined by the chilean claims commission the commission has cleared its entire docket of bases rases with the exception of this one I 1 1 d |