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Show l. J V NEWS SUMMARY v Tho city of Moscow has returned 1C0 electors, all Constitutional Democrats. Demo-crats. Ono person was killed and two others oth-ers slightly Injured In tho collapse ol a building In Pittsburg. Tho Hnngor schooner Salllo B foundered nnd four of her crow per Ishod off tho Maine coast. Tho mnrrlngo of King Alfonso and Princess Enn of Hattenburg hat dollnltcly been fixed for Juno 1. Two men wcro killed and eleven probably fatally Injured In n collision of two coal cars at tho Territory mine at Charleston, W. Va. Lewis PcrscD, n military prisoner at Fort McPhcrson, On., was shot anil Instantly killed whllo making his third attempt within four months to escape An olllclal cable from Carncas states that department secretaries nro still lllllng the cabinet positions made va cant by tho resignation of President Castro. Capital Invested In tho carpet and rag Industry In tho United Stntes Increased In-creased 28 per cent from 1900 to 1901, nccordlng to a report Issued by tho census cen-sus bureau. Tho negotiations between tho former for-mer ItURslan finance minister, M. Ko-kovsoff, Ko-kovsoff, nnd tho French bankers for n loan of $100,000,000 aro proceeding satisfactorily. Tho Kiel Gazette says tho German Crown Prince Intends to send his now small yacht, tho Angela II, to Boston to compete for tho Iloosovelt cup late this summer. Luang Prnbang, capital of French Inilo Chlna, has been almost destroyed by lire. Flvo hundred houses nnd tho French school wero burned. No fatalities fatal-ities aro recorded. Mrs. Maud Calvin and two of her children wero killed and two other children wero Injured near Greene-vllle, Greene-vllle, Pa., their carriage being struck by a train at a crossing. Gen. Clprlnno Cnstro has retired temporarily from tho presidency of Venezuela. Gen. Juan Vlcento Gomez, llrst vlco president of tho republic, Is tho present oxccutlvo head. Tho output or tho Transvaal gold mines for March was 343,723 ounces, valued at $9,931,075, which constitutes a new record, being 12,000 ounces over tho previous highest monthly output. Tho Uuntted Stntes will havo tho support of Great Britain In tho effort to sccuro n postponement of tho second sec-ond peace conferenco nt Tho Hnguo to a later date than proposed by Russia, Rus-sia, Tho British ship Georgo T. Bay, bound for Argcntinn, being In a sinking condition, waH abandoned nnd burned off Port ElUaboth. Tho captain and crew wcro brought to port by n German Ger-man vessel. Mrs. John Prultt, wlfo of n traveling evangelist, whllo brooding over her husband's absence nnd the hnrdshlps bIio and her children wero subjected to, committed suicide nt Crowder, I. T by taking cnrbollc acid. According to advices from tho City of Mexico, published In Los Angeles, $15,000,000 will be expended by Los Angeles capitalists In tho Institution and operation of a chain ot banks along tho west coast of Mexico. Frank A. Antonlnl, a barber, aged 21 years, commlttod sulcldo nt Sonorn, Cal., by shooting himself through the head whllo seated In n chair in his shop. Ill health and unrequited lovo Is given ns tho reason for. the sulcldo. Alanazkovlc, ono ot tho plotters ot tho nssasslnntlon of King Alexander and Queen Drnga, was placed on tho retired list nt his own request last weak. It is hoped that this marks the beginning of tho weeding out ot tho regicides. A Great Northern passenger train, enstbouud, wns derailed at Cass Lake, Wis, Engineer O'FJnhcrty of Superloi was killed. Tho fireman Jumped nnd wns severely Injured, but will recover. Tho passengers suffered nothing more than n shaking up, . Frod Mllncr, aged 22, and nn tin known companion Jumped from a train at 'HIclirhbnd, Cnl., when they both, struck a picket fpneo and were thrown on tho track. Tho train passed vsr their bodies, which were mangled beyond be-yond recognition. Tho Laborltcs havo rejected tho pro. posed arrangements with tho Protectionists Protec-tionists for common action In tho coming com-ing federal elections, says a Melbourne Mel-bourne dispatch, and thcroforo will contest every scat where thero Is a possibility of success. Dr. A. W. Burton, a well known physician phy-sician of Birmingham, "'Ala., shot and killed his wfo, fatally wounded wound-ed Dr. T. T. Thaxtbn, n don'tlat bf Pratt City, Ala., and cut his ' own throat, dying u few minutes later. Tho Burtons wero lllng apart. Governor Pennypncker has Issued an official statomont announcing that the Commonwealth ot Pennsylvania has recovered all tho public funds, amounting to $1,030,000, on deposit In tho Entcrprlso National bank of Allegheny Alle-gheny at the t'.tuo of Its failure. |