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Show NEWS SUMMARY The senate has passed tho dlplo mntlo and consular appropriation bill, carrying $3,085,477. Tho senate has passed a bill pine ing the control ot the Panama railroad undor tho Isthmian canal commission Tho snow which hns fallen upon tho west Alps Is the heaviest In twenty years. It Is five feet deep nt Grenoblo, France. By the explosion of powdor In the Johnson City nnd Big Muddy cnnl mines at Johnson City, Ills., live wore killed and cloven hurt. The Indlnn appropriation bill ro ported to the sennte carries $14,500, 201, a net Increase of $G,300,132 ovci the bill as passed by the house. Otis Eddy, aged 102, died at Rock ford, Ills., last week. He" wns bellovcd to be the oldest Mason In this conn try, having been initiated in 1826. George Buruhnm, Jr., former gen cral counsel for the Mutual Llfo In surance company, wnB put to work In the printing shop in Sing Sing last week. Mrs. Russell Sage has given a million mil-lion dollars to thq Rensselaer Polytechnic Poly-technic Institute. Announcement of (he gift wns made at a meeting of the institution. Four men were killed and sixteen others seriously Injured ns tho result of the explosion ot nn Ico machine ma-chine In the power houso of Armour & Co. nt Chicago. The Wheeler-Simon bill, to abolish capital punishment, hns passed tho house and senate of Kansas nnd now only awaits tho governor's signature to becomo n Inw. Flro which started with an cxplo slon in the paint shop, destroyed an entire section of tho big Baldwin loco motive works at Philadelphia, entailing entail-ing n loss of $1,000,000. Tho Alabama senate passed a bill claBBlfylng all the railroads In the state and reducing freight rates on more than 100 commodities. It Is expected ex-pected that the bill will pass the house. 1 k Masked men called Jesso Phelps from his home at Morgantown, Ky., and whipped him sovcroly. Phelps was accused of sticking pins In his 3-year-old child and burning It with a hot poker. The overflowed Mississippi river, which is filled with groat blocks of floating ice, hns swept awny two residences resi-dences and the school house nt Dorent, a. vlllago twenty-five miles south of Charleston, Mo. John S. Corsyee, proprietor of n Ihco store in West Hoboken, wbb shot and killed in his storo at night by one of a gang of nine men who broke Into the storo to rob It. They also wounded wound-ed John Ged, an assistant. As the result of a lire which destroyed de-stroyed the Columbia bdlldlng, In Buffalo, Buf-falo, N. Y., occupied by about twenty tenants, three firemen nro dend and eighteen nro more or less Injured. The flro loss is estimated nt $500,000. Archbishop S. G. Messmer, In nn interview in-terview nt Milwaukee, 'favors re-estab-llshment of tho canteen In military posts nnd soldiers' homes. "I ate firmly convinced that tho cantcon if a strong tempernnco fnctor," ho says Mrs. F. B. Green of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, was bitten by hoi 5-year-old-son whom sho wob treat Ing for scarlet fever, nnd mny us s result loso her hand. Infection froir tho bite caused blood poisoning, Am putntlon of ono linger has failed to ar rest the mnlady. Tho child dlc January iO. ' Henry Mngruder, son of tho Confederate Confed-erate general, John Bankhead Magru-dor Magru-dor (who died In Houston, Tex., iu 1871), is dead. Mr. Mngruder has been traveling In Hal) with his niece, Miss Buckler, who -nursed him during his Illness. While suffering from a lit or torn porary Insanity, Hamilton Wright, a promlnont citizen or Sharon, Pn., shot and killed hlB wire In their bed room. Wright then telephoned the pollco stn-tlon stn-tlon nnd wns found sitting near tho body of his wife On account of the failure or tho local lo-cal wheat crop, Russia this yenr will bo a purchaser ot American wheat and tho first shipload will arrlvo Boon nt Riga from London, on its wny to Rybinsk. The prlco on tho Russian market will bo $1.15 a bushel. After being chnsed for four years, E. Gomez, charged with being ono ol tho most brutal and reckless of all the desperadoes that years ago made the border notorious, has been captured near El Paso, Texas. A long list ol murders Is charged against Gomez. Soven thousand employees of foui naphtha works at Baku, Transcaucasia, Transcau-casia, havo struck. Their demands In-,cludo In-,cludo a bonus for 1900, vnrying from '20 to 80 per cent of their wngos for tiio yenr. A general strlko Is being rplnnned in suppoit of tho movement. '-yJohn Burke, aged 22 years, was burned to death and Miss Mary Mas-torson, Mas-torson, uged 20 years, was seriously burned by an explosion of a gasoline lump, nt Cleveland. O. Burke was paying nn evening cull and was helping help-ing the young woman fill the lamp when It exploded. |