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Show NEWS SUMMiVJIY. The customs receipts of Havana In ono day amounted to 831,000. Two boys, Martin and Hlllcry Nichols, Nich-ols, wero killed at Fullerton, Cal., In a gravel pit cave-in. Tho trado of Santiago Is already showing- a surprising growth undei American administration. A Porto Rtcan census Is belnrr taken. It lias begun In Bin Juan and It will bo made to cover tho whole Island. Tho Import of precious atones at tho port of New York tho past year were: Cut stones, 83,034,010; uncut, 81,000,093. Of the pnper Issued by two banks In Porto Rico thero Is outstanding a little over 81,000,000. All the paper will be retired. Advices from La Paz, capital of Bolivia, Bo-livia, say that a combat Is Imminent between the revolutionists nnd the government troops. Reports received from tho Interior of tho Island of Cuba Indicate tho willingness will-ingness of the Insurgents to disband If left to themselves. Prince Victor Napoleon, now In Brussels, la represented an preparing assiduously for a coupe, which ho Is fully resolved to execute. General Ludlow Is determined to form n rural mounted police ot 300 men and to patrol tho suburbs of Havana with Cuban soldiers. The remaining Spanish troopi will be embarked from Matnnzns and Clon-fuegos Clon-fuegos within a fortnight, and then Gomoz will como to Havana. Tho German government first hopes to reach a commercial provlsorlum with the United States before a regular reciprocity treaty Is concluded. Agulnaldo holds as prisoners 11,000 Spanish troops, Including two gencr-als, gencr-als, forty staff officers and 400 superior officers. Ho has 1,000 civilians. Genoral llrooko has declined a proposal pro-posal to send n special convoy Into tho woods to find Gomez and treat with Mm as an equal power in tho Island. According to Chinese report, a secret treaty exists between Great Britain and tho United States to proveut any further alienation of Chinese territory. A statoment of tho coinage of tho United States mint at Philadelphia for tho year 1898 shows that the output for tho year just ended was, tho largeat ulnco 1890. In San Francisco Cal., United States Circuit Judgo Morrow has decided that tho stamp tax on telegraph messages must be paid by the sender and not by tho company. The payment of troops Is putting American money In circulation in Havana, Ha-vana, but tho complaint is made that small change Is lacking in all business transactions. It Is announced that the Kynock company of Birmingham has commenced com-menced making 10,000,000 cartridges for tho United States at the rato ot one million weekly. An American syndicate has obtained the right to build a road In Eucador connecting con-necting the scacoast belt with the rich interior, heretofore almost cutoff from tho outside world. By an explosion of gasoline tho hardware hard-ware store of Kiel & Son, Pcmpervillo, 0., was badly wrecked and Augustus Kiel, tho junior partner, so badly injured in-jured that ho died In an hour. Two bills hnvo been introduced In tho liouso of tho North Carolina legislature legis-lature requiring nil railroads in the stato to operate separate coaches for white, and colored passengers. Colonel Blddlo says thero wero 15,000 Spaniards and 400 Americans In Man-tanzas Man-tanzas when the American flag was raised, Thero ure now 1,300 Americans Ameri-cans thero and everything Is quiet. Charles A. Brewer, ex-postmaster of Paulding, 0., shot and ld'lcd his wife, after which he placed tho revolver to his own head and blew his brains out. Domcstio incompatibility was the cause of tho shooting. General Polavioja, former governor-general governor-general of Cuba and tho Philippine islands, nnd Scnor Sllvola, tho conservative con-servative leader, havo agreed upon tho formation of a now cabinet and have been summoned by tho queen regent. Bruno Puhan, who murdered Mrs. Nellio Aralin, but escaped the gallows because tho jury did not bcllevo him mentally bright, has acknowlcgcd In the Joilot penitentiary tliut ho simply shammed Insanity at the tlmo of his trial. Paul Brooks, a member of the banking bank-ing firm of Brooks t Co., at Santiago, and lato United Statos Consul at Guantanatno, died in Rutland, Vt., o pneumonia lit his sixtieth year. Ilia wife died a week ago of tho samo disease dis-ease Tho Oreat Western Distillery, destroyed de-stroyed by lighting last Juno, has been remodeled and enlarged and has resumed re-sumed with a capacity of 13,000 bushels bush-els ot corn dally, which means an output out-put ot 60,000 gallons of alchohol every day. Tho order requiring all customs collections col-lections on tho Island to bo sent to Havana Is felt to bo absolutely necessary, neces-sary, tho Interest ot good government requiring that there should bo but ono responsible head to tho customs service ser-vice In Cuba. Lord Chnrles Bcrcsford, addressing tho Hongkoug chamber of commerce on tho necessity of firmness in opposing oppos-ing Russian encroachment, repeated his advocacy of an alliance between Oreat Britain, Germany, the United States and Japan. Upon application of tho Bell Pottery cpmpauy of Flndlay, 0., a temporary restraining order has Issued against eighteen pottery companies in Ohio, to prevent them from organizing a trust contrary to the statutes which prohibit such notion, |