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Show NEWS SUMMARY 'Cas'hlor "W. C. WMlaco of the Columbus, Co-lumbus, Ohio, TKifltofflco 'has suicided Ills accountu -show a serious short, ago. A pollco 'census Just completed gives tho 'population of the District ol Columbia aB 389,591, 'of whom 96,181 aro negroes. There will ibo no strike of tho train inon of tho Denver & Rio Grande railroad as a result of the difference! over tho wage scale. Harry Marshall, -a 'bystander, wai killed and another mnn wns wounden ns a result of a row growing out oi tho 'longshoremen's strike In Hobo ken. Three hundred and soventy-two 'banks of California were represented In o bankers' convention which held a three days' srsslon .at Santa Barbara. David W. Itoss, genora'l purchasing agent of tho Panama cana'l commission, commis-sion, will resign shortly to becomo president of a 'largo manufacturing concern In Chicago. Tho village of Gorcv'lllo, 111., has been swept by lire, entailing a loss of $7G,000. Sixteen buildings were destroyed. It Isibellovcd tho flro was started by incendiarism. Governor Carter of Hawaii arrived In San Francisco on the steamer Sierra. Si-erra. He will remain 'In tho United States several weeks and will visit President Roosevelt rtt Washington. Orrln W. .Pottor, tho pioneer Btcel mnn and multl-nillllonalro, retired, whoso life was linked with tho dovel opmcnt of tho steel Industry of the United States, died In Chicago on the 17th. The military has "taken chargo ol tho Jail at Brunswick, Gn., to protect a negro, Lee Holmes, who Is charged with killing A. A. Sands at Darien Junction. Sands was a prominent white man. Governmental returns show Hint the deaths from the plague through' out India for tho six weeks ending May 11 reached the appalling total of 4G5.892. In the Punjnb nlono 28G.771 deaths occurrod. Tho sultan of Morocco has decided to comply with (French demands foi reparation as tho result of tho mur dor of Dr. Mauchump, according to a letter from Fez, handed to tho French minister at Tangier. No special dellveiy postage stamps will bo needed after July 1 to Insure tho Immediate delivery ot a letter Tho afllxlng of 10 cents extra postage and marking the covering "specla. doJIvery" will suffice. Five masked men at Elletsvllle, I ml., bound and gagged the town marshal, took from him tho Jail koyt ind secured the only prisoner, Oscai Morris, whom they drngged to a tree nd whipped severely. Tho Imperial conference at its clos-'ug clos-'ug session In London adopted the iiotlon of Sir Wilfrid Lnurlcr In fu vor of an all-British subsidized steam ship route from tho United Kingdom to Australasia, by way ot Canada. Tho street cars of Evausvlllc, Ind., began to operate again Saturday with aon-unlon men imported from "St Lours and Nashville. Mayor Bohno has ordered the enlistment of spcclaJ patrolmen to handle tho situation. Govornor Hughes of New York hat been elected, president of tho Northwestern North-western Baptist convention. This nc lion was taken nt the general meet. Ing of the delegates to the general Baptist Societies In session In Wash' lugtou. Tho lock-out In tho building trades began in Borlln on tho 18th. About 60,000 men aro directly affected, ahc 40,000 aro affected indirectly. It if the most serious labor dlfllculty tr. Uermnny since the great coal strike of 1905. After ordering 'supper .and stating ho would return In a few minutes, J S. Clnrksou, a prominent mining man formerly of Detroit, loft his boarding house In auudahijura, Mexico, three weoks ngo, and lie has never beer seen since. B. W. Franks and David McCul lough, charged with being members of the gang that robbed tho Bank ol Asher, Okhi., liiBt Christmas, ol $30,000, with another prlsonor, have escaped from the county Jail al Shawnee, Oklahoma. The stiiko In the textile mills at Orizaba, Mexico, Involving more than 25,100 operatives, had been practically settled by concessions, nn those operatives who had not left the city in search of employment have returned to work. OfllclalB of tho Citizens' bank ol North Topeka, Kuiib., have admitted that tho safe had been entered at night and robbed of $10,000, hair of it In gold and tho balance In currency No explosives were usod, but the safe combinations wero worked. An Interesting feature ot tho noxt Republican national convention will bo a reunion of the delegates to the national convention In Chicago Ir 1880, who for thirty-six ballots sup ported General U. S. Grant for the presidency for a third term. 1 |