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Show NEWS SUMMARY The Tennessee houso has passed a bill making it a felony to keep a piano where betting on hoo racing Is allowed. al-lowed. The intensely cold weather which has prevallod In Spain recently has destroyed the winter crops In sovcral provinces. Tho coldest weather of tho present winter Is being experienced In western west-ern Pennsylvania, western Ohio nnd eastern Virginia. The January statement of the London Lon-don board of trado shows Increases of $35,331,000 in imports nnd of $21,-479,000 $21,-479,000 In exports. Troops havo been sent to tlie copper mines In the Ashlo district, Jnpnn, where tho miners innde an attach upon the property, UBlng dynnmlto freely. The Texas legislature has passed a bill providing that a special tax ol $5,000 be assessed against every ex press ofllce In the stnte handling ship ments of liquor. Six minors were killed and twelve or more Injured In a wreck of a coal train on tho Chicago & Northwestern railroad near tho corporate limits ot Des Moines, Iowa. Fifteen wood cutters were overwhelmed' over-whelmed' by an avalanche In the Mu eel district of the Transylvania mountains. moun-tains. All the men were dead when dug, out of the snow. There Is danger of an outbreak ot war In Central America, although et forts at arbitration are being made In the city ot San Salvador In the hope of preventing hostilities. The stato senate ot California has unanimously passed a bill making It a crime to dock horse tails, and prohibiting pro-hibiting the importation Into the stato of horses with docked tails. Representative Hearst has introduced intro-duced a, bill In the house to prevent corrupt practices In elections by making mak-ing bribery a felony and prescribing other safeguards for elections. President Roosevelt hopes to visit Alaska on a hunting trip atter his presidential pres-idential term expires. He expressed this desire last week to Robert M. Wiley, who has spent several years in that country. It Is reported that Count Boni do Cnstellane, from whom his wife, who was Miss Anna Gould of Now York, secured a divorce in the French courts last November, Is about to appeal to a higher court. The body of John W. Smith, a farmer living near Haven, I. T., was found on the 8th. He left homo on tho 5th during a severe blizzard; and tho supposition Is that he lost his way and was frozen to death. Raymond Meyer, a schoolboy of Brooklyn, who was bitten January 17 by a mongrel dog, died of hydrophobia hydropho-bia on tho Cth. Three other children who were bitten by the same dog have had their wounds cauterized. Seven miners are entombed In No. 19 colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes-barre Wilkes-barre Coal company at Wanamlo, Pa., and miners acquainted with the workings work-ings of tho mlno say thero Is little hope of reaching 'any of them. In the senate committee on agriculture agricul-ture last week an unsuccessful attempt at-tempt was made to Insert an amendment amend-ment to the agricultural apropiia-tlon apropiia-tlon bill placing the cost of Inspection of meat products upon the packers. The opopsltlon party are well In the lead in the elections In European Russia, having twenty-four seats in parliament assured nnd scventy-Uvo practically certain. Tho conservatives conserva-tives have Ave assured and thlrty-nlno probnble. Congressman William Aldon Smith has been elected by tho legislature to All tho unexpired term of Senator R. A. Alger. Congressman Smith had already al-ready been elected as Alger's successor suc-cessor at the expiration of his torm March 4. Whllo Ignorlug tho nutl-Jnpancso feeling In a portion of tho American press, tho Japanese public Is nlmost unanimous in demanding that the solution so-lution of tho San Francisco school question must not involve tho labor question. Tho Brazilian government has do-cided, do-cided, in order to avdld poBslblo dls-agreeablo dls-agreeablo Incidents, to exclude negro sailors from tho Brazilian squadron which will visit tho United States. Tho opposition nowspnpors attacks tho government gov-ernment for this step. In a sensational speech beforo a Nebraska Ne-braska senate committco, Senator Pat rick accused tho brewery nnd distil-lery distil-lery intorcsts of trying to corrupt tho legislature and provout the passage of "unfriendly bills," and of raising $50,-000 $50,-000 at! a corruption fund. The Missouri sonato has passed tho bill providing that Insuranco companies com-panies bo prohibited from appropriating appropriat-ing monoy for political purposes and from paying annual salarlos of moro than $50,000 to presidents. Tho penalty pen-alty Is torfoituro of license. Mary S. Anthony, sister ot and lifelong life-long co-worker with Susan B. Anthony, dlod at her homo In Rochester, N. Y., on tho 5th. MIbs Anthony would havo been 80 years old in April. Shn bad nevor been wol. since the death ot 1 hor sister, eleven months ugo. |