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Show NEWS SUMMARY Senora Castro, wife of the formet president of Venezuela, has been refused re-fused admittance into Venezuela. The cabinet has decided definitely that the Spanish fleet shall be reconstructed. recon-structed. The work will be entrusted to British firms. Advices from various north and east Texas points are to the effect that heavy frost April 12 seriously damaged the fruit and corn crops. Rev. C. W. Eldredge-of Cincinnati, while delivering a speech in favor of the "dry" at Adelphi. a small town in Ohio, was given a shower of rotten eggs. Richard Stednian, a deputy warden in the Alberta penitentiary at Edmonton, Ed-monton, Alberta, was killed by a con-Tict, con-Tict, who struck Stedman on the head with an ax. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fa Railway company has asked the Kansas Kan-sas railroad commission to allow the road to issue seventy-three million dollars worth of common stock. Charles Dewes and Moses Lantz were blown to atoms when the nitroglycerine nitro-glycerine factory of the Independent Torpedo company at Gordon, Ills., as destroyed by an explosion. An investigation conducted by the Des Moines (Iowa) Tubercular association asso-ciation has resulted in the discovery that six out of every ten children examined ex-amined are infected with tuberculosis. President Taft has instructed Director Di-rector North of the census bureau to disregard party lines in. securing suitable suit-able men for supervisors and other appointive places under the new census cen-sus act. John Bullel.te, a wealthy Indian landowner, widely known throughout Oklahoma, Texas, and old Mexico, was assassinated while sitting at his desk in his office at Claremore, Oklahoma. Okla-homa. Colonel Moses Gibson, who served in the confederate army during the campaign in Virginia, committed suicide sui-cide at Louisville, Ky., by drowning in a bathtub, after slashing his wrists with a razor. That a combination of silk industries indus-tries in southern France, representing $10,000,000 of capital, will transfer its plants to this country, is stated by Jean Duplan, head of a large silk dye works at Hazleton, Pa. During March, 4,783 settlers from the United States entered Canada at North Portal, on the Soo line, with 72(1 cars of effects. During the year ending end-ing March 31. the total was 19,099 settlers set-tlers and 1,759 cars of effects. Mrs. Blanche O'Neill, once a well-known well-known opera singer, is in a Providence. Provi-dence. R. I., hospital, under treatment for illness said to be due to hunget and exposure. The woman has been living in poverty for several years. A vacancy as chaplain In the navy will be filled by the appointment of a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Secretary Meyer will ask the board of bishops soon to meet in Richmond to nominate a candidate. Stanley Ketchel, who has been matched lo fight Jack Johnson for the heavyweight championship of the world, will fight the breach of promise prom-ise case brought against him by Miss Elizabeth Houman of Grand Rapids, Mich. Seven young farmers from the town of York, Minn., were lodged in jail last week, charged with trying to blackmail black-mail Dr. D. Beckman out of $6,000, the alternative being the burning of the Beckman residence and the kidnaping of his son. While attempting to cross the Pacific Pa-cific Eleclric tracks near Pasadena, Cal., in an automobile, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Hoffman of Pasadena were injured in-jured in a collision with a car. Mrs. Hoffman died fifteen minutes after the accident. The Japanese government is negotiating nego-tiating Wltil an American builder of submarine boats for the purchase of plans and sped Heal ions for a new type Of submarine of smaller model than the type now In common use, but of double speed. The strike of coal miners at the Port Hood, N. S., mines ended fruitlessly fruit-lessly last week, 350 miners who had been out for several weeks returning to work under conditions which were practically the same as those existing pvious to the strike. Slops have been taken to hasten final adjudication by the Kentucky court of appeals of the test case to determine lite Status of the Uitonia Jockey oJUib; A decision by that body la expected before thf opening day of the L&tOttla spring meeting. Mav 25. John Craig wis killed In his home at Roaring Fork. Va., and his two sons. dPtrlok and Arthur, aged 9 and 12, respectively, were arrested charged with the clime. It is said Craig had been brutally treating the boys and that while he was asleep they shot hint Marian Grew the youthful matrimonial matri-monial agent, whose manner of conducting con-ducting the Searchlight" club, at Elgin. El-gin. 111., led to a sentence of one year In prison, must servo her time. The young woman appealed hut the court of appeals has affirmed the decision of the district court. According to the official report of the department of foreign affairs of Japan, as announced at the cousulate-general cousulate-general in New York. 307 more Japanese Jap-anese returned to their native country coun-try from the United States and Hawaii Ha-waii during March than entered 'ixt States and Hawaii |