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Show aNEAVS SUSrMAJlY Tho treaty of arbitration hetweon Tho Netherlands and tho Untyed States was ratified on March 27. A hill prohibiting tho manufacture and sale Of Intoxicating Manors has boon killed by tho Minnesota legislature. legisla-ture. Rlttanl, the priest who has been preaching a holy war In Morocco In support of tho pretender, has been capturcdr Attacks by Arabs on Htcaiucrs plying ply-ing In TJgrls havo been so persistent that tho British line has boon compelled com-pelled to suspend. j By tho falling of a cage In a coal j mln6 at Sewlckau, Germany, four men were killed and moro than twenty others Injured, six sorlously. ' In order to ho prepared for a strike If one Is ordered, tho I.ohlgh Valley Coal Co. has begun repairing the high fences surrounding tho collieries In Hnzlcton, Pa. As a result of a quarrel over land, Edward Itlenort, n German rancher, residing at Loho, Cal., shot twice and p"Ttlably fatally wounded C. N. Garry, n land dealer at Benedict. About twenty studcntB captured L. A. Wlltsey, the new Instructor In the University at Fort Worth, Tex., and clipped Ills long sldo w hi ulcers. Several Sev-eral expulsions arc expected. Joseph Genaro, a clgnrmakcr, was shot and killed In New York City lu a fusillade of bullets from seven Italians, said to ho members of tho Black Hnnd. Flvo men wore arrested. The Pennsylvania legislature has adopted u concurrent resolution offering offer-ing a reward of $16,000 for Information Informa-tion leading to (ho arrest and conviction convic-tion of the kidnapers of Willie Whltla. A holy war Is again threatened In Morocco. Kellahlo news received In Washington says that Fez and tho fjiuroundlng country, including the town of Mequlnz, Is In revolt against Ue sultan. The .South Kansas conference of the Methodist church, In session at Coffeyvlllo, Knns., has voted against the restoration of tho game of foot-hall foot-hall at tho. Baker (Kan.) university, a church college. Reginald McKcnnn, first lord of tho admiralty, said In the house of commons com-mons last week that tho British government gov-ernment had no Intention of purchasing purchas-ing tho Brazilian Oreadnaughts now being built in Uiat country. Tho harbor at Vera Cruz, Mexico, has suffered from tho recent earthquake earth-quake by receding waters, rendering It bo shallow that ships drawing twenty-four feet of water touch bottom. bot-tom. Dredging will be necessary. President Taft has not yet decided definitely upon his proposed trip to tho west this summer. He will determine) de-termine) the matter definitely after tho closo of tho extraordinary session of congrcs. Ho hus had In mind a trip to Alaska. Governor GUlctto of California has signed N. W. Thompson's anti-land grabber bill, which provides for tho snlc of public lands at public auction at $1.25 an acre, and If. designed to prevent fraudulent acquisition to such proporty. Genoral William Booth, command-1 er-In chlof of tho Salvation Army, Is , in St. Petersburg negotiating with tho government for permission to establish es-tablish there a branch of tho Salva- ; tlon Army. Ho Is strongly opposed 1 by tho holy synod. Twonty-two death sentences passed upon political prlsonors wore con- firmed by tho supreme military court . at St. Petersburg. Fifteen of these were convicted of un attempt to es-1 enpo from tho Irkutsk prison when a , prison guard was killed. 1 Rudolph von Feneres, one of tho i most eminent physicians of Germany, is dead as a result of an operation for gall stones; Ho wns physician to tho lato Empress Frederick and tho Chancellor Chan-cellor von Buelow. Ho often accom-1 panlcd Emperor William on his travels. A feud between tho Chavez nnd tho Padllla families, living on adjoining ranches north of Padlna, Mexico, has already resulted In three deaths, and It Is feared another outbreak may occur at any time. The trouble originated orig-inated In a quarrel over tho boundary boun-dary lines. Formor Queen Mlluokalanl of Ha- ( wall, who recently wont to Wtishlng-ton Wtishlng-ton In an attempt to oxpedlte action, by congress on her claim against the government of $2(30,000, which she do&Ircs as compensation for tho loss of her crown lands, returned to her : homo last week. Four men wore klllod nnd five seriously seri-ously Injured when a thlrty-flve-foot brick wall, left standing after a fire a month ago, which destroyed tho butterlno plnnt of Swift & Co., In Chicago, Chi-cago, crashed down on them without warning. Tho men wore erecting n building adjoining. The first year of tho Dos Moines commission plan of municipal government govern-ment nt Doa Moines, Iowa, was completed com-pleted March 2-t. The treasury shows a surplus of $20,000 on hand over and abovo expenses, hi tho yenr previous, under tho old system, thero was' a doflclt of $180,000. Formor Governor Hill of Mnlne, acting chairman of the Republican national na-tional committee, announced Inst week that tho headquarters of tho commlttoo In Washington would bo abandoned after this month and continued con-tinued In Chicago with Secretary Heyward lu chnrgo. Tho Panamn libel cases against tho Press Publishing company nnd Cnlob Van Iliunm, ono of tho editors of tho World, will not bo dropped so long as ho is district attornoy, was the statoment mado by. United States District Attornoy Stlmson, in Now York City last week. |