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Show MmfSUfeWUMNHHnMttiflMAH)tMi NEWS SUMMAUY Settorn Castro, wlfo of tho former president of Venezuela, has been refused, re-fused, admlttnnco Into Venezuela. The, cabinet has decided definitely that tho Spanish fleet shall bo reconstructed. recon-structed. Tho work will bo entrusted to British Anns. Advices from vnrluua north and cast Texas polntB are to tho effect that heavy frost April 12 seriously damaged tho fruit and corn crops. Rev. C. W. KIdrodge of Cincinnati, while delivering a speech In favor of tho "dry" at Adelphl, a smnll town In Ohio, was given a shower of rotten Richard Stedman, a deputy wnrden In tho Alberta penitentiary at Ed-monton, Ed-monton, Alberta, was killed by a convict, con-vict, who struck Stedman on the head with an ax. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fo Hallway company has asked the Kan-Ens Kan-Ens railroad commission to allow the rend to Issue seventy-three million dollars worth of common stock. Charles Dcwes nnd Moses LanU were blown to atoms when tho nitroglycerine nitro-glycerine factory of tho Independent Torpedo company at Gordon, Ills., wns destroyed by nn explosion. An Investigation conducted by the Des Moines (Iowa) Tuberculnr association asso-ciation has resulted In tho discovery that six out of' every ten children ex-nmlned ex-nmlned arte Infected with tuberculosis. President Tatt has Instructed Dl. rector North of the census bureau to disregard party lines In securing &ult-able &ult-able men for supervisors and other appointive places under tho now census cen-sus net. John Ilullotto, a wealthy Indian landowner, widely known throughout Oklahoma, Texas, and old Mexico, wail assnssltmted whllo sitting at It's desk In his office nt Claremore, Okla-homn. Okla-homn. Colonel Moses Gibson, who served In tho confederate nrmy during tho sampulgn In Virginia, committed suicide sui-cide nt Loulsvlllo, Ky., by drowning In a bathtub, after slashing his wrists with a razor. That a combination of silk industries indus-tries In southorn France, representing $10,000,000 of cnpltal, will transfer Its plants" to this country, Is Btated by Jenn Duplan, head of n largo silk dye works at Hazleton, Pa. During March, 4,783 settlers from tho United States entered Canada at North Portal, on tho Soo lino, with 72C enrs of effects. During tho year ending end-ing Mnrch 31, tho total was 10,099 settlers set-tlers and 1,759 enra of effects. Mrs. Blancho O'Neill, onco n well-known well-known opera singer, Is In a Providence. Provi-dence. R. I., hospital, under treatment for Illness said to be duo to hunger and exposure. The womnu has been living In poverty for several years. A vacancy ns chaplain In tho navy will bo filled by tho appointment of n minister of tho MethodlBt Episcopal church, and Secretary Meyer will ask tho board of bishops soon to meet In Richmond to nominate a candidate. Stnnley Kdtchel, who hns been matched to fight Jack Johnson for tho iieavywelght championship of tho world, will fight tho breach of promise prom-ise caso brought against him by Miss Elizabeth Houmnn of Grand Rnplds, Mich. Seven young farmers from tho town of York, Minn., were lodged In Jail last week, chargod with trying to black-mall black-mall Dr. D. Beckmnn out of JG.OOO, tho alternative being tho burning of ' tho Beckmnn resldenco and tho kidnaping of his son. y Whllo nttemptlng to cross tho Pacific Pa-cific Electric tracks near Pasadena, Cnl., In an nutomobllo, Mr. and Mrs. 11. B. Hoffman of Pasadena wore Injured In-jured In a collision with a car. Mrs. Hoffman died fifteen minutes after the accident. The Jupnncse government Is negotiating nego-tiating with nn .American builder of submarine boats for the purchase of plans and specifications for a new typo of submnrlno of Bmnller model than tho typo now In common uso, but of double speed. The strike of coal minors at tho Port Hood, N. S., mines ended fruitlessly fruit-lessly last weok; 350 miners who had been out for several weeks returning to work undor conditions which woro practically tho samo ns those existing previous to tho strike. Steps have been taken to hasten final adjudication by tho Kentucky court of appeals of the tost case to determine the. status of tho Latonla Jockey club. A decision by that body Is expected before tho opening day of tho Uitonia spring meeting, May John Crnlg was killed In his homo at Roaring Fork, Vn., and his two sons, aPtrlck nud Arthur, aged 9 und 12, respectively, woro arretted charged with tho crime. It is said Craig had been brutally treating tho boys and thnt whllo he was aBleop they shot him. Marian Grey, tho' youthful matrimonii matri-monii agent, whoso manner of conducting con-ducting tho "Searchlight" club, at EI-gin, EI-gin, 111., led to a scntenco of ono year In prison, must servo hor time. Tho young woman appeuled, but tho court of appeals has nfflrmod tho decision of tho district court, According to tho official roport of tho department of forolgn affairs of Japan, as announced nt tho consulate-general consulate-general In Now York, 307 mora Jan-aneso Jan-aneso returned to tholr native country coun-try from tho United StatOB nnd Hii-wail Hii-wail during March than entered tho Stnteh nud Hnwnll. Max Johnston, the fqroman qf nn English factory in St. Pptcrsburgwns brutally murdoied, by nion In his om-ploy. om-ploy. Tho workmen wero dissatisfied with tho Easier gratuities glvon thorn by Johnston. They pinned him to tho ground with n heavy bobbin nnd beat bliu to death with ropes. |