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Show NEWS SUMMAUY. -. The Cubans are preparing a protest gainst the Spanish Bank of Cubs collecting taxes. Albort J, Bevcrtdge, Republican, has been elected to the United States senate sen-ate from Indiana. &', In Chicago JohnDlclhloft shot his wife, after a quarrel. He then shot himself twice. Both died. Investigation shows that reports of a threatened uprising of the Indians of the Northern Choyenno are un found- Francis Marlon Cockrol has been rocketed ro-cketed to his fifth term In tho United States senato byr tlio Missouri legislature. legis-lature. '' Reports from Plnar dol Rio say that the provlnco is belngl'ravagcd by the bandits, who have broken away from the insurgent forces,! A boycot war.ls waging among the Havana newspapers. Tha Cuban journalists jour-nalists are trying to oust tho former organ of Spanish opinion. About 220 miners in tho employ of the Little Pittsburg Coal company, nt T.lntrn. Mnrnn countv. Mn.. nrn nul B I ... 1 on a strlko for hlghor wages. Dennis Carty, while drunk, shot and killed his aged' mother at Mahony City, Pa., and then attempted to commit com-mit suicide by shooting himself. The Rome correspondent of tho London Lon-don Times, referlngto the rumor that Italy is about to, seize a port in China, says ho believes it absolutely devoid of foundation. ' During the -V past eighteen montlu Amorican promoters (have sold to British Brit-ish buyers 911,000,000 worth of mining property in the Rosslaud, B. C, mining min-ing camp. I James Walsh, an old man, was struck by an engluo in tho yards at Chcycuno and received a broken leg and arm and internal injuries which will probabl) result fatally. Tho citizens of Santa Clara City object to having tho capital of the province removed to Clenfuegos and propose appealing ap-pealing to President McKlnley against the suggested change; The American (government is now building and equipping a railroad In Cuba, 1700 men .osJ-'T at work. At least 1,300 more WV- J given employ-ment employ-ment as aoon'ttsossibifa. The whole remaining forco of Ahmed Fcdtl, the only unconqucrcd Dervish chieftain, numbering about 2,000 men, has surrendered to the British on the Blue Nile. Fedil escaped. The rnystcrousdlsappearanco of Mrs. Rosle Gagne, an alleged heiress, and tho seventeen-year-old bride of Gcorgs Gagne, a professional bondsman, is puzzling the police of Chicago. Tho London Times, discussing editorially edit-orially Anglo-French relations, hints that France will bo offered concessions in Madagascar as a sot-off to tho French shore Hghts In Newfoundland. Germany, It Is understood, Is not likely to propose a conference as to Samoan affairs, but the government will readily consent to enter a conference con-ference if the United States proposes one. An Agrarian revolt Is In full swlntt in the Arad district, Hungary. Fierce conflicts havo taken place, in which sixteen rebels and ten soldiers have been killed and the rebellion Is raptdlj spreading. There is not a single casa of yollow fever In Major General Leo's camp at Havana. Tho two suspected cases in the Second Texas regiment havo been diagnosed as typhoid and pneumonia, respectively. Henry Hoyt, assistant United States attorney-general, has been ordered by the department of justice to go to Santiago and advise with General Leonard Wood on legal questions which may arlso. The treasury department has given Instructions to tho custom officials of Skaguay to stop tho transportation of liquor under convoy from Canadian porta through the White Pass to the Northwest territory. In Colon, Colombia, the strike of dock laborers Is fast assuming a very serious atpect. A batch of thlrty-slx Panama dockmen arrived last night, and stones and revolvers wero fired at the train as It ncarcd Colon. It Is stated that tho company of artillerymen stationed at Clrclo City, Alaska, under command of Captain Richardson, have saved no less than twenty lives this winter by making trips over the ice after stragglers. The United State revenuo cutter Alma was driven on 1'ad re island about fifteen miles south of Corpus Chrlotl, Tex., January 18, during a storm and all on board escaped to land. Thero wcro Bovoral revenue officers on board Tho managers of senatorial booms in Lincoln affect to bellovo that they see tho end of tho strugglo approaching. The ten Republican- votes from Douglas Doug-las county form tlio'L nio for most lu. terestlng gossip, It being said that they will lead tho break whon it comes, Advices from Bolivia say that thf. president of tho republic, General Cevero Fernandez Alonzo, with his troops, is still at Vlacha awaiting reinforcements rein-forcements before advancing upon the capital, La Pez which, Is In tho lianda of the revolutionists. |