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Show NEWS SUMMARY The treaty of arbitration between. The Netherlands and (.lis' United States was ratified on March 27. : A bill prohibiting the manufacture I and sale of intoxicating liquors has i been killed by the Minnesota legislature. legisla-ture. Kittani, the priest who has been j preaching a holy war in Morocco in ; support of the pretender, has been captured. Attacks by Arabs on steamers ply- I ing in Tigris have been so persistent that the British line has been com polled to suspend. By the falling of a cage in a coal mine at. Sewickau. Germany, four men were killed and more than twenty ! others injured, six seriously. in order to be prepared for a strike if one is ordered, the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. has begun repairing the high fences surrounding the collieries in Hazleton, Pa. As a result of a quarrel over land, Edward Rienert a German rancher, residing at Lobo, Cal.. shot twice and probably fatally wounded C. X. Garry, a land dealer at Benedict. About twenty students captured L. A. Wiltsey, the new instructor in the University at Fort Worth, Tex., and clipped bis long side whiskers. Several Sev-eral expulsions are expected. Joseph Genaro. a cigarmaker. was shot and killed in Xew York City in a fusillade of bullets from seven Italians, said to be members of the Black Hand. Five men were arrested. The Pennsylvania legislature has adopted a concurrent resolution offering offer-ing a reward of $15,000 for information informa-tion leading to the arrest and conviction convic-tion of the kidnapers of Willie Whitla. A holy war is again threatened in Morocco. Reliable news received in Washington says that Fez and the surrounding country, Including the town of Mcquinz, is in revolt against tne sultan. The South Kansas conference of the Methodist church, in session at Coffeyville, Kans., has voted against the restoration of the game of football foot-ball at the Baker (Kan.) university, a church college. Reginald McKenna, first lord of the admiralty, said in the house of commons com-mons last week that the British government gov-ernment had no intention of purchasing purchas-ing the Brazilian Dreadnaughts now being built in that country. The harbor at Vera Cruz, Mexico, has suffered from the recent earthquake earth-quake by receding waters, rendering it so shallow that, ships drawing twenty-four feet of water touch bot torn. Dredging will be necessary. President Taft has not 'yet decided definitely upon his proposed trip to the west this summer. He will determine de-termine the matter definitely after the close of the extraordinary session of emigres. He has had in mind a trip to Alaska. Governor Gillette of California has signed X. W. Thompson's anti-land grabber bill, which provides for the sale of public lands at public auction at $1.25 an acre, and is designed to prevent fraudulent acquisition to such property. General William Booth, commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, is in St. Petersburg negotiating with the government for permission to establish es-tablish there a branch of the Salvation Salva-tion Army. He is strongly opposed by the holy synod. Twenty-two death sentences passed upon political prisoners were confirmed con-firmed by the supreme military court at St. Petersburg. Fifteen of these were convicted of an attempt to escape es-cape from the Irkutsk prison when a prison guard was killed. Rudolph von Feneres, one of the most eminent physicians of Germany, is dead as a result of an operation for gall stones. He was physician to the late Empress Frederick and the Chancellor Chan-cellor von Buelow. He often accompanied accom-panied Emperor William on his travels. A feud between the Chavez and the Padilla families, living on adjoining ranches north of Padina, 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 the boundary boun-dary lines. Former Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Ha-waii, who recently went to Washington Washing-ton in an attempt to expedite action by congress on her claim against the government of $250,000, which she desires as compensation for the loss of her crown lands, returned to her j home last week. Four men were killed and five serl-' serl-' ottsly injured when a thirl y-flvo-foot brick wall, left standing after a fire a month ago, which destroyed the butterlne plant of Swift & Co., in Chicago, Chi-cago, crashed down on them without warning. The men were erecting a building adjoining. The first year of the Des Moines commission plan of municipal government govern-ment at Des Moines, Iowa, was completed com-pleted March 24. The treasury shows a surplus of $20,000 on hand over and above expenses. In the year previous, Under the old system, there was a deficit of $180,000. Former Governor Hill of Maine, acting chairman of the Republican national na-tional committee, announced last week that the headquarters of the committee in Washington would be j abandoned after this month and continued con-tinued in Chicago with Secretary Heyward In charge. The Panama libel casei against the Press Publishing company and Caleb Van Hamm, one of the editors of the World, will not be dropped so long as he is district attorney, was the statement made by United States District Attorney Stlmson, in Xe'V York City )'JI "jeplr. |