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Show NEWS SUMMARY It Is rumored that n r.erlous uprising upris-ing Is Impending in Plnar del Rio province, Cuba. Mayor Griffiths of Springfield, 111., wa drowned whllo endeavoring to ford a Btrenm of water on horseback southeast of that city. Lieutenant Hart was killed nnd three sailors injured by an .explosion of gnsoltso on board a mibmarlne boat at Portsmouth, England. August Meyer, a well-to-do shoo denier of Drooklyn, was so severely beaten by highwaymen thnt ho died several hours later In n hospital. Col. Gucssckoffsky, assistant harbor commandant nt Scbastopol, was killed by a revolver shot, In tho vicinity of tho docks. Tho assassin was arrested. ar-rested. Former President Cleveland will deliver de-liver the principal address at Wilmington, Wil-mington, Del., next Saturday at tho unveiling of a momorlal statuto to Thomas F. Uayard. a A' trlplo drowning occurred Sunday In tho Rio Grnndo at tho Indinn Pueblo Pueb-lo Islcta, twelvo miles south of Albuquerque, Al-buquerque, N. M.,'as tho result of the capsizing ot a ferry boat. Carrlo Nation, after haranguing n crowd in front of n downtown saloon in Washington, was nrrested on tho chnrgo of disorderly conduct. Sho was released on $20 collateral. Observations of Atlantic steamers arriving recently nt New York aro very interesting as showing that tho waters of tho ocean oft other eastern coasts aro now abnormally cold. Tho government reports show that In tho last three months of 1900, tho moBt recent statistics available, moro than 20,000 persons wcro killed or Injured In-jured on railroads, or about 700 n day. Twenty-eight passengers, Including twelvo women nnd children, wcro drowned by tho sinking of tho French schooner La Jnlouso from Cayenne for St. Luclas. Tho schooner sank off Darbadocs. Frank T. Edcson, a lodging houso keeper of Los Angeles, shot his wlfo through tho head and instnntly killed her nnd then blow his head off. Tho couplo had frequently quarreled over financial mattors. Francis Murphy, tho veteran temperance tem-perance apostle, is seriously 111 at his homo In Los Angeles, with a complication compli-cation of nllmcnts, and his physicians aro In doubt about tho probable outcome out-come of his case. A dispatch from LUbon says that un oxploslon of dynamite at Covlhllo, a manufacturing town, killed thirty persons. It is believed tho oxploslon was caused by dismissed workmen, who sought vengeance. Tho ovorduo Norwegian steamer Preston, Captain Olsen, from New Orleans, is ashuru at San Andreas, says a, Colon dispatch. Tho steamer Ellis has gone to tho scene to tnko off thu passengers and mall, George Curry, . lato governor of Hollo, sailed from Manila on tho 17th on tho transport Lognu to assumo thu duties of governor of Now Mexico, to which position ho was recently appointed ap-pointed by President Roosevelt. Don C. Henderson, onco private secretary of Horace Greeley and for many years publisher ot tho Allegan (Michigan) Journal, has been taken to tho lnsauo asylum at Kalamazoo' by direction of tho probate court. Tho gravo ot Michel Pacha, tn Turkish admiral who died at Tonion Inst January, has been desecrated by thieves, who Btolo tho body. Tho thieves, It Is hellovcd, expected to find In tho tomb Jewels of great value. Albert Nleslngcr, a plumber, of St. Louis, lias been nrrested on tho chnrgo of having thrown vltrol Into tho faco of Mrs. I-ena Wunnch, who had refused to marry him. Doth her eyes wero burned out nnd her face disfigured. Tho government officially declare, tobacco Ib not a luxury, but a necessity, neces-sity, In a decision by tho comptroller of tho treasury. Tho question nroso through a number of Punnnia cunnl laborers held In qunr.intino demanding demand-ing tobacco. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Curne-glo Curne-glo will bo the guests of Ambassador and Mrs. Charlemagne Tower during tho Kiel yachting week. It has already al-ready been urranged that Mr. Tower shall present Mr. Carnegio to Emperor Em-peror William. Tho first tornado over known In southwestern Jowu devastated a path 100 feet wide and two miles long through a running section vlx miles north of Ottumwa. No houses wero In the storm's path, but orchards were torn up and livestock killed. Charles Sharer or Symnies Creek, Ohio, shot his wire and hor mother, Mrs. Georgo Tlmcker. Ho then took his :i year-old son upon n hill, (shot him dead ami attempted to burn tho body. Then ho suicided. Domestic, trouble Is given as thu causu. Tho suit or tho United States against tho coal-carrying roads, which aro charged with carrying on a monopoly lu tho production, transportation trans-portation und salu or hard coal, was filed in the United States circuit ctiurt In Philadelphia last week. |