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Show NEWS SUSlMAKY. rorlrcts Monroe, jfdlnarlly staled tho Gibraltar of Amejflca. Is to be mkdo even more formldablathun now. Consul Swnln at Mmtcvldeo reports that American col ban como Into tho river Plat in active cbmpotltlou with tho Welsh coal. ,i Secretary Algol' Ii authority for tho statement that thcri s no truth in tho roport of n change im .'lie head of the navy department, ft General Merrltt tho first of tho year will take charge of tit department of tho cast, relieving- one nil Minftcr, now In commaud. H Tho directors of the Hell Telephone company have ileehln 1 a dividend of 3 per ccnL An extra dividend of IK per cent was also declared!' Prof. John Hell IInlicrof Princeton has gone back to Patnunla to continue his search for rare fowls nnd oxploro tho Interior of the cdtaitry. The stale department has Instructed Vico-Couusul-Genorulfflprliiger to proceed pro-ceed to Havana and cjoseliptho alTulrs of the United States consulate-general there, i General Wcyler Is'jEdng.to Madrid to confer with tho Ijmnicr, who Is ex-liFctcd ex-liFctcd lo neeept also Alio advances of Senior ltomctory ltowlilo and Senior JosaCunalcjas. b s W MIko Hi'tinoMy.'nlifflncrownerj who lives with his fiunl?ffi'l.cad, S. I)., and John O'ConnclicinpIoycd by lien nessy, were burned' toldeath lu their cabin nt Crown IH1U j 8. A. Sylvester, who ,was formerly agent of tho KqultttbwLtfo Insurance company ut UillborojlNflD.'i has been arrested In feattlo on mwarrnnt charging charg-ing htm with embczJomct. The jury In the cniejof W. S. Jewett, formerly president oTthe Lake National Na-tional Hank of Vfboro, N. II., charged w Ith embezzlement of 823,000, returned n verdict of,fuilty. The preferential tariff In favor of Great llrltiiln lias ,no?vforkcd particularly partic-ularly well In Cniuujat accoidtng to figures transmitted lfrJUnlted States Commercial Agent 1 unt nt Palmer-ton. Palmer-ton. ' In Washington! ntrshal's jury declared de-clared Josoph VjPaon to bo Insane. -Pearson is thu. tiiftlijVy Vo created a, sensation sen-sation by liurllnlTinlfUles through tho Mnnr nnd n liiilwP-Tllr.tJMlJ!l'"IJ Lil1- e!1ii bassy, J " The state department as yet has taken no steps toward reopening the American consulates in Spain, nnd this probnbly will bo allowed to await the exchange of ratifications of the penco treaty. Frederick von Hartmahn, nged 27, son of Haronvon Hartmannof Cologne, Germany, has been sentenced to flvo years In the state prison by Judgo Ruck of Kalamazoo county, Mich., for burglary. Secretory Alger said yosterday afternoon after-noon that Major-General Oils had rendered ren-dered most satisfactory service In commaud com-maud of the military foiccs In tho Philippines and would bo retained In that position. Hereafter brooms will cost 3 cents moro apiece. Members of the Ilroom Manufacturers' association of tho United States mot lu Chicago and do-elded do-elded to advance tho prlco of brooms 25 cents a dozen. Thrco moonshiners, Jacob Lambert, Greer, and an unknown man, were killed and several of their comrades wounded in n battle with revenire ofll-cers ofll-cers In Knox couuty, Ky. The officers were not hurt. Senator Morgan has secured tho pas-sago pas-sago by the kenato of a resolution authorizing au-thorizing thu Nioamguan Canal committee com-mittee to Investigate tho ulleged efforts ef-forts to obstruct thu construction of the Nicaragua canal. Among a nctwoik of wires twenty feet above the ground, Roderick Chls-Iiolm, Chls-Iiolm, an uloetrlcMii, was slowly burned to death in sight of sovcral hundred specators ut tho corner of Fifty-fifth and State streets, Chicago. In Syracuse, N. Y Arthur R. Hall, a wall-known blejele trlok rldor, wns instantly killed recently by being struck on the head by a timber which fell six stories, crushing Ills skull. Ho was nt work on tho building. Tho Attornoy-Gonornl has transmitted trans-mitted to congress tho roport of tho commission appointed to prepare n code of olvll laws for the territory of Alaska. The laws of Oregon aro taken ,as tho basis for tho now code. An issue of some Importance has been raised by tho civil service, commission as to tho right of Comptroller Trace-well Trace-well of the treasury to refu&Q to audit tho accounts of persons appointed to positions "In contravention of tho civil scrvlco law." Tho work of completing tho combination combi-nation of tho lottery companies of tho United States, to bo known aa tho American Poltery company, with a capital of 897,000,000, is expected to bo consummated in New York within the noxtten days. The directors of tjo Atohlnson, To-pcko To-pcko & Santa Fo Railroad company have deolared dWldaiul qf 1 per cent on tho prefened sum), the first Blnco the reorganization of the conipany. The ofllcors nnd executive committee were re-elected |