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Show NEWS SUMMARY It haB been decided not to accept any bids tar building tho Panama cnal. Tho plant of tho Old Vlnccnnoa (Indiana) (In-diana) Distilling company has been partially destroyed by flro. Ixr $200,000. Sovonteen persons condemned by court-martial for participating In the recent rising at Tukura, wcro shot al Illga, Russia. Dy a vote of 43 to 19 tho senato rnt-Iflett rnt-Iflett the Santo Domingo treaty. Thlt was one moro vote In tho afllrraallvt than was required. The announcement Is made of the resignation of John F. Stovons at engineer In chief of 'construction ol the Panama canal. Adolph Tingle, a Dritlsh subject, was court-martialed and hanged nt the citadel nt Wnrsaw for having robbed n street car conductor. Governor Beckhom has determined to send troops to Jnckson, Ky., dim lng tho trial of James Hargls, charged with tho Cox murder. Robert O. Gill, a broker, was fined $350 in Chicago for operating n bucket buck-et shop for women. Tho court overruled over-ruled a motion for a now trial. Tho police and prlvoto dotoctlvo arc searching San Francisco for William Walker, tho missing bank treasurer of New Brttnln, Conn. Thoy bo llevo he Is there. The governor of Indiana has signed tho two-cent railroad faro act. It has no emergency cIoubo nnd goes Into sffect with the publication of tho now laws about May or June. Two men wero killed and flvo badly bad-ly burned by an explosion of gas In tho Woodward mine at Kingston, Pa Tho mlno Is very gaseous nnd the men work with safety lamps. Thomas Haldwln, a rich fanner and former merchant of Colfax, Ills., shot and killed Charles Kennedy and wife and Mrs, Slin Elsman and daughter Cora. Baldwin was arrested. Replying to a correspondent, Lord Curzon says It Is his deslro to reenter re-enter public life next autumn and, It a sultablo opportunity presents Itself, to obtain a seat In parliament. Senator Joseph S. C. Blackburn ol Kentucky, who will retire from the linlted States sonato on March 4, It to bo made a membor of tho reorganized reorgan-ized Panama canal commission. James M. Parsons, formerly ot Bos ton, Mass., was shot and probably fatally wounded In Sonorn, Mox., near tho SInnllo state line, In defondlng his mining claims against two Mexicans, A. T'. Lawsho has been solectcd to succeed Third Assistant Postmaster General Mndden. Mr. Lawsho Is from Indiana and was auditor for tho postofflco department under President McKlnley. A bill for tho creation of a commit-teo commit-teo to consider and recommend legislation leg-islation for tho Improvement of rivers and harbors was favorably reported re-ported by tho house commlttco on rivers and harbors. Tho nomination by tho president of Amor Smith to bo surveyor of customs cus-toms at Cincinnati, removes from the list ono ot tho places to which tho president had In mind tho posslblo appointment ap-pointment of a negro, Drldgo No. 828, near Iscr, on tho Southern Pacific, fifty miles east ol El Paso, Tex., was destroyed by incendiaries in-cendiaries with tho evident purpose of wrecking a passenger train. Tho tiro was discovered by tho crow ol an extra train, which barely escaped running Into It. Senator Balloy of Texas, who has Just returned to Washington 'from that state, was in his placo on Sunday for the first time this session. Ho received re-ceived a hearty welcome from both sides of tho chamber. Nothing that has happened for a long timo In Hawaii has created tho same widespread interest as Gover aor Carter's recent announcement, in an Interview, explaining his atti-.udo atti-.udo toward tho Japanese; that ho has tieen wllllnir that his daughter should marry a Japanese. Frank Mabry, a woll-known banker of McGregor, Texas, entered a ploo of guilty to the charge of embezzlement embezzle-ment und misappropriation of funds of a national bank nnd was sentenced to flvo years In tho penitentiary. Tho result of tho negotiations t lint hnvo been going on for somo tlmo between be-tween Vice-President G. R. Hudson and a commlttco representing tho engineers en-gineers ot tho Mexican Central railroad rail-road Is an agreement by which the engineers recolvo an Increaso of aboil. 12 per cent In wages. Tho California senato killed Hart-man's Hart-man's antl-prlzo fight bill by a vote of 2G to 11. Senators Wolfo ot San Francisco and McCartnoy of Loa An goles, opposed tho bill, asserting that they bolleved public opinion was In favor of tho sport. Archibald Clovortng Gunter, publisher, publish-er, novelist and playwright, died suddenly sud-denly In Chicago on tho 25th, from npoploxy. He had not been 111 and was engaged In writing tho last pages of tho manuscript ot a piny when he was fatally stricken. i |
