Show NEWS SUMMARY the plague has appeared at pretoria seven hundred bindery girls hae gone on a strike in chicago the sultan of sulu has accepted the abrogation of the bates treaty the president has determined that the panama canal comm sion shall be attached to the war department space ong nally to russia for a national pa il on at the world s fair has been awarded to holland senator gibson has introduced a bill to repeal the desert land act and the on provision of the homestead act A report from alid vo tol ays that a mine has been discovered disc overe 1 under the fortress with wires leading to a cal nese house in the town fire at dumcy ills in athe hotel newcomb resulted in the death ol 01 rose mcdonald once an actress and antoinette broneski Br a waiter eighteen minneapolis flour mills owing to the poor condition of the flour trade have shut down indefinite ly A thousand people are out of work the maritime customs returns for 1903 show a great development in the import of cotton fabrics from japan at the expense 0 the anglo american trade s I 1 the negotiations for an anglo french colonial treaty are progressing satisfactorily but the officers are un able to say just when it will be ready to be signed damage amounting to thousands of dollars was done in christiana county kentucky by a w many buildings were unroofed and two ne groes killed major zeph I 1 hill military corn mander has given instructions for the confiscation of firearms in las animas county colorado and house to house raids have begun the london standard s correspond ent at seoul says that since the fight at over 7 japanese ad have arrived at seoul in search of employment the second battalion of troops on the isthmus has been dis banded leaving one battalion under the colors and the vessels forming the navy are offered for sale john kay 16 years old is under ar rest for the murder of william spittal a hunter and trapper found dead in his cabin near vancouver with two bullet holes in the bach of his head according to a dispatch received at hamburg there were ninety killed including thirteen white persons in the tornado that caused ruin through out the island of reunion march and telegrams from santiago de cuba report that all the members of the provisional electoral board of scrutiny have been arrested on the charge ot falsifying the results of elections for congressmen there is much discussion in cipio matic circles says a st feteris arg dispatch over the intimation that great britain through the new french entente is seeking to compose her differences with russia although president roosevelt can not attend the opening exercises of the louisiana purchase exposition he has consented to press a button at the white house which will start the ma chinery of the exposition in order to provide for the require ments of the army of occupation the japanese authorities have decided to extend the fishery concessions in the korean provinces of hwang hal achl yung chyong and ping yang A special from nome tells of the capture there of a wild man of barbar ous appearance totally unable or un willing to give an account of himself he is commonly believed to be an es russian exile from siberia three out of thirteen koreans tor merly military students in japan ac aused of conspiring against the life of the emperor and crown prince for the purpose of enthroning prince eul wha have been executed at seoul the house committee on alons has completed the sundry appropriation pria tion bill and reported it to the house the bill carries a total of 55 which is as less than the appropriation of the current ear in consequence of a speech insulting king edward the austral an govern ment has refused the use of public buildings to john alexander dowie the mayor of adelaide wrote to dowie telling him he was a disgrace to the nationality forty masked men many of them carrying shotguns broke into the jail at st clair mo and securing winn davis arrested on the charge of high way robbery took him from the jail whipped nearly to death and then turned him loose governor carter of hawalt has an extra cession of the legisla ture to meet april ath to consider the finances of the treasury which Is unable to meet the warrants drawn upon it appropriations exceed in come by 1 A meeting in dublin called for the purpose of promoting an international exhibition in dublin during 1906 un der king edward s patronage broke up in disorder the members of the gaelic league voting with the major ity against the project the bubonic plague IS spreading at johannesburg there are now sixty nine suspected cases among the col ored population and nine among the whites the deaths resulting from the plague up to date are fifty five five whites and fifty natives |