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Show NEWS SUMMARY. A big fire In Torro Hnuto, Indiana, caused a loss of over 31, 000,00a Tho United States bnttleshlps Oregon Ore-gon and Iowa, which arrived nt Valparaiso Valpa-raiso on Saturdny, has loft for Callaa Madrid newspaper representing Scnor Oamazo and tho dissenting Liberals, declares for n cabinet headed by Scnor Montcro Hlos, Tho General commanding tho northern north-ern nrmy of Spain has proclaimed the closuro of nllCarllst clubs and societies In his district. Jnko Still and II. II. Hay engaged In a duel nt Clarendon, Texas, in which Still was killed. Tho trouble nroso over a woman. Jnmcs O. Jeffries, tho Los Angolos heavyweight, hasngrccd to meet Jnmcs J. Corbett somo tlmo In February In San Francisco. A dispatch, from Utlcn, N. Y., announces an-nounces tho suicide of Leroy P. Mid-lam, Mid-lam, tho last Democratic postmnstcr of Marquotte, Mich. Tho steamer Wcrrn, which soiled from Havana on December 0th with about 2000 Spanish soldiers, has arrived ar-rived at Malaga. Phlncas T. Itanium's widow, his second sec-ond wife, has taken a third husband. She has married Ilaron Alex Orcnglann, n French nobleman, In Paris. Cuban forces hnve entered tho evacuated evacu-ated towns of Calnbarar and Santlr.go do Ins Vegas, Havana province, and havo hoisted the Cuban flag. Tho United States cruiser Clnclnnntl is now In deep water. Apparently alio is not much damaged by running on tho reef while leaving Santiago. Representative S. W. Smith of Mich-ignn Mich-ignn has introduced a bill for a national military reserve, consisting of ono regiment for each congressional district dis-trict In Ruffnlo, N. Y obout 8700 in spurious coin was captured In nn Italian Ital-ian tenement house lu Scott street. The supposed counterfeiters nro under arrest. At a meeting of tho general officers of tho Women's Christian Temperance union tho dates for tho next annual meeting, at Seattle, Wash., wero fixed at October 20 to 25, 1800. Most encouraging rcportsconccrnlng AkwheaHii cXtho American troops gnr-ilslftalrrPoWHIcocuritr gnr-ilslftalrrPoWHIcocuritr tho wnr department. There has been no fatalities for four days. James Christenscn nnd wlfo of Ncennh, Wis., whllo crossing the Northwestern railroad tracks, wero struck by a train nnd killed. They lenvo a family of eight children. Commander Mori of tho Jnpancso navy places Admiral Dewey in tho same class with Admirals Ito nnd Nelson. Nel-son. "Ho is not only a great naval ofllccr," said he, "but n general nnd n statesman." In Munich n duel with pistols took plnce between Major Scltz and Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Pfelffer, growing out of tho former's for-mer's misconduct with tho tho lattcr's wlfe.t Major Seltz was killed. Tho Midland Hallway company of England has ordered twenty freight engines In Philadelphia and New York. As a consequenco ot tho engineers' strike tho Kngllsh firms are only ablo to copo with arrears of work. Tho first train from Mcrv, Russian Turkestan, 300 miles southeast of Lahlva, arrived on Friday lastatlvusk, In the Jamshldl provlnco of Afghanistan, Afghan-istan, the lino thus being completed to within ninety-flvo miles of Herat. Ex-Prcsldcnt Orovcr Cleveland has decided to abandon tho "school farm" for homeless boys, which he, in company com-pany with others, undertook early In tho summer. In practleo tho scheme failed, and tho ox-prcsldcnthns decided to return to tho original method of farming. Tho agricultural appropriation bill contains a retaliatory clause authorizing authoriz-ing tho secretary of agriculture to inspect in-spect articles dangerous to health, and also authorizing tho secretary of tho treasury to exclude such articles. Tho restriction Is designated to apply to n largo number of articles imported from foreign countries. Charles Nelson and H. K. Spring havo just reached Los Angeles from the United States of Columbia, where, for two years they were hold under surveillance without being grnntod n trial on a chargo of having killed Jasou Hubbard on August 27, 1800. There was no evidence to connect them with tho crime. Prlnco Victor Napoleon's recent sojourn so-journ In Paris was of moro serious import im-port than was at first surmised. His presouco was known, but tho government govern-ment did not arrest him because M, Dupuy, tho premier, believed that tho arrest would bo the slguul for a coun d'etat. Regarding tho attitude of tho Roman Cathollo church In tho Philippines, Archbishop Ireland says; "Tho church in the Philippines will, I hnvo no doubt, accustom Itself to tho conditions under the now regime, as It did under tho old." President H. O. Havemeycr of the American Sugar Refining company stated jistcrday that Secretary and Treasurer John Seniles had on December Decem-ber 16th written a declination to continue con-tinue on the directorate of tho company. |