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Show NEWS SUMMARY Tho Kansas legislature lias passed an anti-pass bill. Tho California senate lias killed tho woman suffrage measure. James It. Garfield took the oath of ofllco as secretary of the Interior on the 5th. The British ship Lochgarvo Is ashore at Kcmalo, on Molokal island, and will probably lie a total loss. A fishing vessel with a crow of seven men foundered on the coast of SL Thomas, N. Y and all hands wcro lost. Two explosions In tho rock quarry of tho Chihuahua & Pacific railroad, at Sandoval, Chihuahua, killed !) men and seriously Injured 9 others. The Missouri legislature has passed a bill giving the cities of tho state tho right to fix tho rates charged by public utilities granted by franchise Tho bill to extend the right or suffrage suf-frage to women wns defeated In the houso of commons last week, whero It was talkod to doatii without coming to a vote. Tho California legislature has passed pass-ed a bill providing an eight-hour dny for conductors- and motormon nnd other employes on street and Inter-urban Inter-urban railroads. Japan Is withdrawing all her troops from Manchuria except 15,000 railway rail-way guards. Tho forolgn consuls aro strongly protesting against the non-settlement non-settlement of the Ltkln question. Four persons were burned to death In Brooklyn, Sunday, three In a tenement tene-ment flro on B'ushwlck avenue and a woman in her homo. Ono man wns fatally hurt In the tenement (Ire. After being out an hour and a half the jury In the case or James aud Phillip Strothcr, on trlnl at Culpepper, Culpep-per, W. Va., ror the murder of William Wil-liam F. Ilywaters, returned a verdict of not guilty. As n result of an advertisement in a paper for a wife, George Moon, a widower or Ausouln, Conn., has been so overwhelmed with applicants that he Iuib posted a "no wlfo wanted" sign on his front door. A bomb was thrown Into a Hat occupied oc-cupied by Prince Argutynskl, director or tho government high school ot Warsaw. The premises wore wrecked wreck-ed but tho prince was not Injured. Tho bomb-thrower escaped. Advices received from Chihuahua state that thirty-flvo persons-men, persons-men, women nnd children were killed at San Andoes, tvv'cnty leagues from there, by the accidental explosion of a"" large quantity of dynamite. The Missouri Hcnate has passed a bill providing for the nomination of candidates of all parties for United States senntor by popular voto at tho November elections preceding tho legislatures leg-islatures which will elect senators. Tho coal-carrying roads of Illinois have decided to Increaso the rates 10 cents a ton on all coal mined In Illinois Il-linois and Indiana aud brought to Chicago for consumption. The Increased In-creased rates will go Into effect April 1- A presidential boom for Senator W-. Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, Is In full swing In Boston, Ho seems to havo the backing of his constituency and other prominent Kepuhllcnus. Considerable enthusiasm Is manifested. manifest-ed. The Dauubo is thawing rapidly and flooding thousands ot acres or cultivated culti-vated land, tho Inhabitants or which and their cuttle aro succeeding to escape es-cape with great difllculty. The water cunt I nus lo rise nnd the danger Is Increasing. In-creasing. A mutiny occurred In the artillery barracks at Toul, France. The men attacked non-coinmlssloued oftieers with revolvers aud swords. Soveral men were wounded on both sides before be-fore the mutineers were captured and imprUonnd. Falling to get satisfaction for (be recent murder of a German mission- j ary, It Is reported that Germany Intends In-tends to occupy certain coal lauds on I tho frontier, near Bagdad, which she I has long desired for the purpose of j tho Bagdad railroad. j In order to prevent the Japanese from pouching upon the sparsely guarded Siberian lltoral during the fishing season, commencing In April. Itussla has decided to scud to the Pacific two small cruisers, which aro now In the llluck sea. The military secretary's ofllco of tho army, established for tho benefit of Major General Alnsworth, wont out of exlstenco oiuntho iltti, in accordance accord-ance with the iQpvislonu of the army appropriation bill, and the adjutant general's department was revived. Andrew Watts, agoil 27, was arrested arrest-ed at Louisiana, Mo., on the charge of having attacked his sweetheart, Louise Itoss, whom he found In company com-pany with Gabel Miles, beating her with a club and stabbing her with a pocket-knifo. llor condition Is serious. Dr. .louls Zorn, a wealthy dentist, convicted at Kansas City of "murder-lug "murder-lug Albert Sechrlst, his tenant, In June, 1902, and sentenced to fifteen years In the penitentiary, has been granted a new trial by the stato supreme su-preme court, lie has bad threo trials. |