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Show NEWS SUMMARY ; A robber ntolo a box containing $6,500 in gold bullion bound for the San Francisco mint from an express .truck at Barstow, Cal. Tho Alabama senate has passed tho ' houso resolution calling for an Investigation Inves-tigation of tho methods of tho Booker T. Washington school. j A stovo In tho home ot tho Children's Chil-dren's Aid society, nt Vancouver, L ' C, exploded, wrecking two rooms o! tho building and injuring six children. Fred Elcnbrock, who on Decembci 21 attempted to assassinate Judge Charles S. Cutting of tho probate court, of Chicago, has been adjudgec Insano. Prof Matteuccl, director ot the ob-eorvatory ob-eorvatory nt Mount Vesuvius, reports re-ports increased agitation ot this volcano vol-cano coincident with the Kingston earthquake. Tho chief of the rural administration, administra-tion, N. Brollau, was killed nt Smo lonsk, Russia, by a school boy named Borlokoff, as tho chief was leaving a concert hall. Several hundrcf families' of Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, Ohio, have been forced from their houses by tho rising river. Tho school buildings were given up to flood sufferers. The chiefs of the Ben M'Sur trlbo, with which Ralsuli sought refuge, are negotiating with the Moroccan authorities au-thorities to obtain pardon for themselves them-selves and Ralsuli. Tho boiler ot a ' Philadelphia & Reading freight engine explodod at Bridgeport, Pa., and five trainmen were killed. .A portion of the boiler was hurled 150 yards. Tho second lava flow from tho volcano vol-cano of Mauna Loa on the Island of' Hawaii is now only two miles from tho sea and is half a mile wide. It "Is moving at tho rate of thirty feet an hour. A dispatch has been received at Hamburg announcing' that tho Lucie Woermann had been wrecked near Lome, the chief port ot German Togo-land. Togo-land. Her passengers and mall were saved. Oliver Dyer, who is said to have Introduced stenography into this country coun-try and was tho first short hand reporter re-porter in the United States senate, died in Boston on the 14th, aged 83 years. Mrs. J. C. Holman, mother ot Evyln Nesblt Thaw, denies a report that Bhe was going to Europe to avoid testifying testify-ing at the trial of Harry K. Thaw. Sho refused to say whether she would appear ap-pear at tho trial. The need of a merchant marine as means to tho greater commercial development ot tho United States was urged by Secretary ot tho Treasury phaw, In an address to Harvard students stu-dents on "Evolution ot Self-Govern-' mcnt." From tho eruption ot Maunalon, Hawaii, Ha-waii, lava is flowing down tho western Bide at tho rate of seven miles an iour and in three strcamB. One ttrcam has crossed tho government road and reached tho sea, thirty, miles from Its source. Tho public gardens in Odessa on the 17fti wore the scene ot a tripple execution. exe-cution. Three Terrorists were hanged In a row after having been condomned to death for tho robbery of a shop. Their trial took place before a drumhead drum-head court-martial. Tho American Sheet and Tin Plato company of Pittsburg, announces an advance of two per cent in wages to all hot mill tonnage 'employes In tin mills. It is said that sheet tin mill mon will receive an advance of 2.6' por cent about March 1. United Stutes Senator J. W. Bailey addressed the Texas house of repro-1 sentatives on the 17th on Invitation ot that body. Senator Bailey's speech was an Impassioned denial ot anything Improper In his relations with tho Waters-Pierce Oil company. King Edward has headed the mansion man-sion houso Kingston reluf fund with a subscription of $5,000, tho corporation corpora-tion of London Immediately adding a similar amount. Tho principal theaters the-aters are organizing special performances perfor-mances In behalf ot the fund. President Roosovolt has written a lettor to. Chairman Fossof, tho' Naval Affairs commltteo, urging that, an appropriation ap-propriation should ho made at ouco for two first-class battleships of the maximum slzo and speed and, with primary batteries, all of 2-Inch guns. Reports from Kelwan (Sulouan), south of Melllla. where the Moroccan pretender has his camp, indicate that his followers, since tho appear-anco appear-anco of El Guehas and tho Sultan's troops at Tangier, are growing lukewarm, luke-warm, and that tho rebellion will soon be ended. Tho jiult of the stato of Illinois against tho Illinois Central railroad for tho collection of several million dollars which tho state alleges has been withheld from tho state'rf share of the gross earnings ot the railroad w.ia filed In the Btate supremo court last week. Addressing the tienatu on tho Urownsvlllo affray, Senutor Connuck announced that he heartily supported tho president In his action In discharging dis-charging the negro soldiers. Tho action ot tho legislature In his state taking the same position met his pt-soaal pt-soaal views. t |