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Show I NEWS SUM'MAEY Mru. Frederic Schorf of Philadelphia has boon ro-clcctcd president of tho National Mothers' congress. In nn nmntcur boxing tournament in Philadelphia, Wllllo Hoblnson, 19 years, was killed whllo boxing with Charles Wolf, samo ago. Tho sennto has accepted tho amendment ot tho legislative bill Increasing In-creasing tho salaries of surveyors general from $2,000 to $3,000. Tho steamer Pomona, which plys between San Francisco nnd Eureka, was wrecked near Fort ltoss on March 17. All her pupscngcrs wero saved. Threo mon wero killed nnd four Injured, In-jured, two fatally, by tho blowing up ot ono of ten wheel houses of tho United StntcB Powder company at Coalmont, Ind. An unknown negro shot nnd mor-tally mor-tally wounded Hnxtcr nnd Unfits Burns nt Hums, Miss. Doth nro relatives rela-tives of United States Senator Mc-Lnurhi Mc-Lnurhi of Mississippi. Senator 11. It. Tillman ot South Carolina, Car-olina, is dangerously 111 nt his homo at Trenton, S. C, suffering with a return re-turn of tiro dlscaso which affected Ill's health threo years ago. Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury J. P. Edwards, whoso resignation was" accepted last wcok, has accepted tho receivership of tho Now Amsterdam National bank or Now York, which recently suspended. Mrs. Mabel Woodhom Ncolloy, ol Kalamazoo, Mich., whoso two-ycnr-old feon Walter died last December from pncumonln whllo undor treatment by two mental healers, woa last week rearrested re-arrested and charged with manslaughter. man-slaughter. Wnltor It. Day, secretary of stato of Kentucky under tho Ropubllcnn re glmo or Oovcrnor Taylor In 1900, hat boon sontenced to servo ono year In tho penitentiary for forging tho nnnto of IiIb undo, Floyd Day, to n check for 15,000. Tho bubonic plnguo In Ecuador 1b increasing and tho sanltnry condition of Guayaquil and other towns Is causing caus-ing groat alarm. Thcro nro flfty-ono cases or tho plaguo in tho Lazaretto, besides scvorr.l cases of smallpox and yellow fovcr, As tiro result of an unsuccessful nt-tempt nt-tempt to nssasslnato Federal Judge .Lira, of tho northern district of Chihuahua Chi-huahua by firing two shots at him through a door, Tour alleged plotters aro held In Jail In Juarez on a chargo of conspiracy to murder. Frank Klto, n Jnpancso cook, fired flvo bullets Into tho body of Mrs. Liz-zio Liz-zio Hulso of Now York City, who had spurned his lovo. Klto then drank cnrbollo acid nnd died. Mrs. Hulso will rccovor. Uoth had been employed In a restaurant. Tho formications bill, carrying a total to-tal aproprlntlon of f8,210,CU instead ot tho $38,443,945 asked for by tho war department, has been reported to tho houso committee on appropriations appropria-tions by Chairman Smith of tho subcommittee sub-committee on fortlllcatlons. Undor pressure exerted by tho Trnnsvunl government, which Is entitled en-titled to CO per cent or tho company's output, tho Promlor Diamond Mining company has reflnltely retuued to ro-ncw ro-ncw Its agreement with tho diamond syndicate, and will market Its own output. Two men wero killed nnd flvo persons per-sons sorlously Injured when an excursion excur-sion train on tho International & Grent Northern railway bearing a party of homcscokers from Kansas nnd Oklahoma en routo to Lns Pal-tonns, Pal-tonns, Moxico, was wrecked at Pear-sail, Pear-sail, Toxas. In tho arrest o Fanny Itltchlo and Harry McCueli at Do.vaun Texas, thft mystery ot a wholesale murder in Oklahoma City last August, Involving tho denth ot flvo persons, Is cleared up. Tho woman declares McCuon committed tho murders, robbery being be-ing tho motlvo. Tho government of tho llttlo Afrlcnn republic of Liberia 1ms np-ponied np-ponied to Amorlcn to protect hor territorial ter-ritorial Industry ngalnst Franco. Tho stato department has been inrormod that a delegation la now on lta wny from Monrovia to Washington to mako n porBonnl appeal. Tiro suggestion has boon mndo in tho Australian sonato, nnd grcotcd with enthusiasm, that tho federal government gov-ernment Invito President Hoosovoltto como to Australia as tho guest of tho commonwealth during tho visit noxt wlntor In Australian waters ot tho American battleship fleet. So badly do tho farmers of Lancaster Lancas-ter county, Pennsylvania, reqtiiro help on tho farms that tho Farmors' lengtio has Issued nn appeal to tho unemployed ot tho cities and towns to go to tho country .for work, nnd an appeal hns boon sent to tho bureau ot labor and Immigration. Tho supromo court of Missouri has decided that city ordinances prohibiting prohibit-ing persons from lounging or loafing on street comers aro unconstitutional. Tho caso camo iron Ht Lnuls. wh-.-ro Jacob Gloner was lined for standing on a streot cornor doing picket duty during a strlko In 1905. Tho clnlm ot tho Countess of Huona Vista against Major Gonornl Hrooko for 250,d00 damages on account of Mb revocation, whilo military governor gov-ernor of Cuba, of hor llconao to Blnughtcr nil tho cattlo for Havana, has been decided by tho supromo court nl.'aliiBt tho countoss. A croner's Jury found that Lock Allou, a St. Joo, Mo., prlzo fighter, who was klllod in tho fifth round by Fritz Guntllsborger in i fight heforo tho EagloB' lodgo In St. Joo, enmo to Ms death from homorrhngo ot tho brain, caused by over-oxortlon. Gunt-llsborgor Gunt-llsborgor wub hold for trial. |