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Show NEWS SUMMARY A largo number of now cases ot cholora are reported In St. Petersburg Peters-burg every day. Gory F. Carroll on January 14 took tho oath of office and wns sworn In as Iowa's governor. Two men were frozen to death and many persons Buffered from tho cold owing to a gas shortage In Pittsburg last week. An Increase of tho navy, to tho extent ex-tent of $29,000,000 has been agreed upon by tho house committee on navnl affairs, Carrie Nation, tho anti-saloon cm-poder, cm-poder, was arrested at Nowcastle-on-Tyno, Knglnnd, last week while engaged en-gaged In a cniBiido on a saloon. Latest reports show that tho number num-ber of deaths In tho Lick brunch mlno at Switchback, W. Vn., as a result of n tas explosion, will not exceed fifty-nine. fifty-nine. Jttnn Vlncento, tlio mall carried between be-tween Hodeo nnd Durnngo, Mexico, was murdered on a recent trip nnd the mall bags robbed of ?700 In cash. Adlnl Stevenson, Democratic candidate candi-date for governor of Illinois, in tlio recent election, hns signed n pNltlon asking for n recount of nil votes cast for that (ifllce. Tho oxplosion of firedamp In the Auka coal mine at Vcn.prlm, Austria, resulted In tho death of llfty-slx men. Of 240 men entombed,' 184 were taken out alive. Sweeping reforms affecting tlio criminal classes in tho District of Columbia Co-lumbia are recommended In a recent teport transmitted to congress by President Roosevelt. Secretniy of Agriculture Wilson dcclnrea that "tho time will como when in this coiThtry trees will be ns scarce as diamonds, unless steps arc taken to preserve our foreBts." During tho recent trip from Manila (f the transport .Sheridan, seven Japanese Jap-anese fishermen who wero found clinging to 1111 overturned boat wero rescued and landed at Nagasaki. Applications for pardon or commutation commu-tation of sentence havo been filed by General Stoessel nnd Admiral Noba-gotoff, Noba-gotoff, who aro now confined In tho fortress of St. Petor nnd St. Paul. After attempting to rob a public house in Omaha nnd shooting a girl who resisted, nn unknown highwayman highway-man shot nnd killed Patrolman L. A. Smith. Tho girt will probably recover. re-cover. Tho Mtivla do Oro Mining company, com-pany, In tho Urlque district of Ch' hunhua, was robbed laBt week of $G,000 by bandits, who raided tho office of-fice of tho company and dynamited tho safe. The general assembly of Ohio, In joint session, officially declared that Congressman Theodore B. Burton, of Cleveland, should be tho successor of Joseph B. Foraker in tho United States senntc. James York, a qunrry worker, of Mankato, Minn, while despondent, cut tho throats of four of his children, end then committed suicide by hanging hang-ing himself. The dead children ranged from f! to 14 yentfj old, A Canadian Pacific freight train inn Into a snnwslldo at Three Valley Utkc, British Columbia, tho engine plunging Into tlio lake, tho engineer and tlrcman being pinned In th cabin of tho engine and drowned. Heprescntatlvo Charles S. Lnndls, of Indiana, when asked nbout tho published report that ho had been offered of-fered tho position of public printer, said: "I am going homo to live on my farm. 1 would not accept that olllco." Venezuela nnd the United Stntes have agreed to the basis of a settlement settle-ment of tho disputes between them, and a protocol is being drawn up. Presumptively tho enses In dispute will ho referred to Tho Hague for arbitration. Chnrles S. Cameron, president of tho Tubo City Hallroad company, who has been on trial at Pittsburg, charged with attempting to brlbo former for-mer City Councllmnn William A. Martin, Mar-tin, in connection with tho passage of frnnchtso ordinances, was found guilty, Signs of renewed activity, now tlint conditions nro becoming moro settled sinco tho eartliquako disaster, aro notlceablo ovorywhoro in, Messina. Mes-sina. Many persons who left the city immediately after tho catastropho aro returning, anxious to start llfo anow. Heirs of George Washington aro urging beforo congress a claim of f:i05,100 as reimbursement for 3,000 acres of land alone t,he Little Miami river In Ohio, which was granted tc Washington, but, was lost by conflicting conflict-ing grants mndo under tho authority of tho United States. Tho appeal from Hie recent dc-c'slon dc-c'slon of Judgo Wright of tho District of Columbia supremo court In sentencing sen-tencing Samuel Gompers, John Mitch-(11 Mitch-(11 and Frank Morrison to Jail for contompt, will bo vigorously pressed by laboring men, nnd n call for funds is to bo Ishiied shortly. Iowa liquor dealer's nro worried ovor tlio recommendation of Governoi Garst In his message to tho legislature legisla-ture that the tax on saloons bo doubled dou-bled and that $400 of tho $1,200 collected col-lected yearly bo expended In bulldlnR good roads. Tho revenue would amount to $750,00 a year. After years of vain pndcavor to obtain compensation for tho loss oi her kingdom, Queen Lllluokalnnl, former queen of Hawaii, appeared beforo tho houso committee- in person per-son last wcolt to press her claims. Sho Is now willing to accopt $200,000 In settlement ot her claims. |