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Show NEWS SUMMAIIY. Great destitution prevails among the laboring classes In Havana, General John It. L'rooke will bo made tlio military governor of Cuba. Tho Missouri Pacific paid its floating debt Of 81,300,000 lo Kusscll Sage December De-cember 8. A body of soldiers has been ordered to bo In readiness to escort Dreyfus to Paris for tilal. Tho pope has decided that the Spanish Span-ish policy of the Vjllcan shall bo atitl-Carllst atitl-Carllst nud not neutral. Sir Thomas Uplngton, premier of Cape Colony from 1881 to 1880, died nt Capo Town, in his Kith year. Tho Ninth, Thirteenth nnd Twenty-first Twenty-first regiments of regular Infantry Ink vo been onlorrd to Manila. Sectetary Long hns cnhled to orders to Itcnr-Admlral Dewey lo send tho cruiser llatcigh to tho I nltctl States. Kir William Anderson, director general gen-eral of tho royal utdlnanco factories and pnrt Inventor of cordite, died nt London. Captain Snmuel Mclvce, ex-member ofcougreis and ono of Kentucky's most promising Republicans, died at Louisville Louis-ville of paralysis. Tho thermometer nt Denver on tho 0th registered 10 degrees below rero; nt Valentine, Neb., on the same day, 20 degrees below. Tho widow of David Hlakcly has obtained ob-tained "a decision Involving 8100,000 from John Phillip Sousn, luadcr of tha famous Marino band. lleports regarding the health of tho troops at Santiago aro encouraging, and In tho Philippines the conditions havo materially Improved. The sciiuto In executive session has ratified thoticaty for tlio extension of tho time for the completion of tho Mexican boundary ono year. James Shaw, thu only surviving member of tho Michigan legislature of 1847, when Detroit was the capital of Michigan, died at Nilcs, aged 80. The auxiliary cruiser Iluffiilo, which sailed from New York with IKI0 troops for Manila, broke down soon nfter starting for sen aud put In at Newport News. Henry Mortimer Piatt U dead at his liorac In Now York aged 70 jenrs... lntMnro hegabllshiMl'tlip firetH 'goldVnd bllvt(fuHiicryln''tIio United Stntes. Three hundred men of the New York regiment and u number of sailors and officers of Admiral Dewey's fleet arrived lu Sail FrancUco December 0, en route homo. Among I!cd ford's population of 2,800 there aro about 2.00U cases of what Is culled genuine smallpox. Other Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania towns aru excited over tho affair. Thu lire In tho works of tho Standard Stand-ard Oil coinnnnv at Los Angeles has burned Itself out, tho entire property being consumed. The total loss is estimated at 82.1,000. Tho Ohio commaudcry of tho military mili-tary order of the Loyal Legion, has decided de-cided to elect PrcUdcntMcKinley commander com-mander of tho order at the next election elec-tion which takes place In May. Sam Smith, tho train robber, has been found guilty of murder In the first degree tit Hldorado, Kan. He will receive a death sentence, which In Kansas means life Imprisonment. A report submitted to congress by tho commission of fish and fisheries shows an cxpcndltuio of 8187,800 for tho propagation of food fisheries dur-thu dur-thu fiscal year ended June .10th last. John llarrott, formerly United States minister to Slam, after visiting Pekln, says tho situation In China Is ono of tho most critical nature, and that Manchuria Man-churia Is no longer Chlneso, but Hus-sian Hus-sian territory. Tho session of tho Canadian Joint High Commission yesterday was again devoted to tho reciprocity clause, but thcro Is no official Intimation of how fnr or how amicably this discussion had proceeded. Secretary Long, nt tho Instigation of benator Hale, has submitted a bill appropriating ap-propriating 810,000 for the erection of a monument and a fencu at Colon cemetery, cem-etery, Havana; where tho dead of tho Maine uio burled, Thrco men were killed nnd eight wcro Injured, three of them probably fatally, by tho explosion of a press mill nnd four grinding mills In tho Haggloy yard of tho Dupont Powder works at Wilmington, Del. The New Kuglaiid Shoe aml'Lcathcr association josterdny announced tho assignment of the Mudge Shoo com. pnny, with headquarters nt Iloston nnd fuctoiiesnt Newbury port and Bast Uochohtcr, N. 11, Liabilities will i each 8125,000. Senator Mitchell has ln.roduced a bill amending tho existing law in regard re-gard to volunteer soldiers' homes, so as to admit volunteers who were disabled dis-abled by thu wnr with Spain. About 9,000 men aro affected by tha proposed amendment. Carrying out plans of friends of tha Union Theological seminary, New York, to niako It n theological university, univer-sity, a committee has 'been named to procure funds for the establishment ol a new chair, the name of which has not been determined. |