Show NEWS SUMMARY the people of granite are wild with excitement over the discovery of oil near that town the oil was found at the depth of feet and spouted to the surface in great quantities james A ragsdale american consul in tien tain 1 as sentenced three amer lean looters the chinese ter of the city to four years imprisonment in the american jail at shanghai the utterances of gen maximo go baez and estrada palma in the united baates concerning the annexation of cuba to the united states are criticized by many persons at the cuban capital it is semi officially denied that the visit to st petersburg of count von buelow the german imperial chancellor it made has anything to do with the anti commercial negotiations john II 11 bacon a milwaukee newspaper man has accepted an appointment as vice consul general and clerk to consul general dubies at mr bacon will leave for in about three weeks A report has reached chattanooga from washington to the effect that charles ia smith postmaster general would shortly resign an I 1 that pension commissioner 11 clay 1 vans would be appointed to his place judge ferdinand 1 ardt postmaster at new orleans since january last is dead lie was civil judge in the 0 s deputy collector of the port in 1890 and united states attorney under II arrison and cleveland A manifesto in favor of the boers ha been posted on the walls of the I 1 atin quarter in paris in view of the celebration of the national fete on july this poster is signed by students of pans and transvaal volunteers prince christian the eldest son of the crown prince of denmark intend to visit the united states on board hie yacht in the spring of 1909 unless la the meantime the king s age should bring about the accession of the crown prince mrs sarah belle tanner faylor wife of william S taylor ex governor of kentucky but for more than a year a resident of indianapolis died wednesday of hemorrhage resulting from heart disease ahe was 40 years of ageana was born at Morian town ky the treasury department in its preparations for the fall de nand for email certificates is replacing the united states and silver certificates of large denominations with small denominations in silver certificates tl e new issues are nearly altogether in 81 3 and sa secretary hay has given an instruction to mr rockhill Rock hlll tp support the japanese application for an enlarge ment of their inde unity to be paid by china from 50 yen to 4 to cover the deprea alion in japanese bonds as with tl oae of other nations not since the present 1 ot spell began have kansas city people suffered ee as they I 1 night the average temperature aiom 8 p to 8 a m was 91 degiers the atmosphere was almost op and thousands ol 01 people slept on lawns or porches or remained up the entire night riding or walking about to william S capley one of the boer prisoners recently taken to derrilla Derr llla island bermuda aiom bouth africa escaped and was a sto daway on the steamer trinidad which arrived in new york last week th i authorities sent him to ellis island where he will be detained as a pauper edward ma tin formerly lieutenant in the united slates army pleaded guilty before Reco ider goff in new york wednesday to a charge of pass ing a bad check foi 41 on the gorhan manufacturing company martin wa recently dismissed from the army on account of in his canteen accounts M lennon an attorney said to be from san francisco was arrested for gross cheating sit as he was about to leave honolulu on the malandia ea landia for the coast lie is alleged to have passed a number of worthless checks in honolulu joseph bartley for four years treat aurer of the slate of convicted of embezzling funds of the state to the amount of nearly was late last night released from the penitent biary having been paroled by governor savage edward II 11 cirtin formerly a lieu tenant in the united baates arav who pleaded guilty a few days ago to chaice of passing worthless checks has been sentenced by recorder goal of bew to one year in the pent ten biary an increase of sl per cent in the value of manufactured iron and steel importe I 1 into the philippine during 1900 is shown in a campara tive statement made public by the division of affairs war de apartment part ment cebu capital of tl e island of that name is still fl red upon by the insurgents beneral hughes la command of the islands re ports progress in tl e task of pene trat ing the island of samar and scattering the insurgents an order 1 as been issued increasing the rates for adults and children over 13 years of age traveling as first clis passengers on army transports to 1 50 per day for subsistence while on ship board the increase inci ease amounts to SO per cent steel rail faiming what is kno to 11 e trade as the steel rail pool have formally foru ally agreed upon a ton as the price which will be asked for the corn ng year thi price s a ton than that gereed upon last rear i J J |