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Show NEWS SUMMARY Fire destroyed 2,000 shacks In Sam-ploulc Sam-ploulc district of Manila. Tho dam-ogo dam-ogo Is estimated at $100,000. A bomb exploded in tiro central market place at Uarcolonn, Spain, on Sunday, severely Injuring n woman. Another bomb was found nenr by. At tho first automobile raco hold In Egypt, nt Hellopolls, on March 1, n policeman and two spectntora were killed and fourteen persona were Injured. In-jured. John Hays Hammond, tho mining engineer, who has been ill in San Francisco for sovcrnl months and whoso sickness finally resulted in an oporatlon, has fully recovered. Fifteen hundred operatives woro nffectcd by tho closing at Now Orleans Or-leans of tho Lano-Maglnnlss cotton , mills. A poor demand for cotton goods wns given as tho cause. John L. Smlthmoyor, the architect who designed and superintended tho construction of tho Congressional library, li-brary, died In Washington on March 12, nged 70 years. Ho was born in Austria. A special dispatch to tho Dally Mall from Iiorlln sayB that tho emperor sent warm porsonal congratulations to President Itoosevelt ou tho arrival of tho fleot at Magdalcno. bay, ahead of schedulo time. Mis. Uentrico Thomas Motcalf, who attempted to shooot Attornoy S. It. JInmlll during tho trlnl of John It, WnlBh, at Chicago, has been committed commit-ted to tho general hospital for tho In-sano In-sano by a commission. Tho senate has ratified two moro of tho Haguo treaties. They relnto to certain restrictions with regard to tho exerclso fo right to capturo in naval na-val war and prohibit tho dlschargo ot project from balloons. Instructing thorn to "vote for nny proposition favorablo to tho candidacy ol William H. Taft for tho presidency," tho Oklahoma Republican stato con-vontlon con-vontlon elected four dolcgatcs at largo to the Chicago convention. Charles J. GUdden, of Boston, and Mrs. GUdden arrived In Jerusalem on March 13 In n motor car from Hafla, Syria. It was tho ilrst motor car ovor seen in Jerusalem, and created a Ben-satlon Ben-satlon among tho populace. John Drown's antiquated wagon, In which ho mado many pilgrimages during his crusado ngalnst slavery, was destroyed by nro at Iowa City, Iowa, last week. Tho wagon was loft thoro by Brown forty-eight years ago. President Roosevelt has directed Horbert Knox Smith of tho bureau of corporations to investigate tho mothods ot stock trading, with a view of furnishing tho basis ot podslblo fu-turo fu-turo legislation regulating such practices. Tho Jury In tho trial nt Jackson, Ky., of John Abnor, charged with aiding in tho murder of Town Marshal James Cockrill during tho Hnrgls-Cockrill Hnrgls-Cockrill feud In 1D02, reported a hopeless hope-less dlBagrcoincnt, and havo been discharged. dis-charged. N. T. Andors, prosldcnt of tho Commercial Com-mercial bank of Jackson, Miss., and formor director of tho Central Bank of Mississippi, has been Indicted by the Hincs county grand Jury on tho charge of ombozzlement of $25,000 from tho lattor bank. Tho Supremo court of tho DUtrlct of Columbia has dismissed tho proceedings pro-ceedings instituted Bomo months ago by Georgo W. Austin of Now York to compol Socrotary Cortolyou to is-buo is-buo to him $3,000,000 worth of Panama Pana-ma canal bonds, Nowb has been received from Italian Ital-ian Sorailand to tho effect that a local tribe, helped "by soldiers of tho Mullah, Mul-lah, attacked another tribo under tho protection of Italy and killed thirty of tholr opponents. They thou drove off n numbor of cattle. Tho spectators at tho cycle races at tho Galleries dos Muchlncs, Paris, enraged en-raged over tho decision of tho umpires, um-pires, wrecked nnd Bet flro to tho grandstand. Police reserves to tho numbor of 300 hnd to be called out boforo order was restored. The rovonuo cutter Thetis hns been ordored to proceed to Unlmak Island, ono of tho Aloutlan group, to rescue tho survivors of tho Amorlcan Bchoon-er Bchoon-er John F. Miller, which wns wrecked In a sevcro storm nt Boar Harbor, near Capo PnnkofT on January 8. Application for n now trial for J. It. Walsh, ox-president of tho Chicago National bank, convicted of Illegal uso of its funds, has been mado. Ono hun-drod hun-drod nnd fourteen reasons for tho granting ot a new trial woro presented present-ed by tho nttornoyn for Mr. Walsh. An unknown young woman, well dressed, Jumped Into tho Monongahela river at Pittsburg and was swept away by tho swollen rlvor. Nothing la known concerning tho woman, and it is probable her body will not bo recovered re-covered until tho high water subsides. William Adix, a mining Inspector from Nomo, Alaska, who was said to havo been addicted to tho uso of opium, crawled undo tho sldowalk in San Francisco and died. Tho body was found sovernl days lator in a horrible Btato, having been attacked and partly eaten by rats. Tho health of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannorman, Campbell-Bannorman, England's prlmo minister, has caused rcnowod anxiety. During tho past wook thoro has been no Improvement Im-provement whatever In his condition, rathor thoro hua boon a weakening of his vitality which Is regardod as a serious symptom. Representatives of tho most important impor-tant shipbuilding and armor mnnufne-luring mnnufne-luring concorns of Great Britain, Gor-many Gor-many nnd France nro at prcsont In Pekln looking for contracts, This activity ac-tivity Is induced by tho belief that China la about to oxpond $50,000,000 lu naval eoulpmcut. |