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Show I NEWS SUMMAEY. Agonclllo declares that the war will not end while a single Filipino remains. It Is now believed that eighty lives were lost when the atoamcrStella went down. Major-Gcneral Otis thinks the Insurgents Insur-gents can bo subdued wlthlu three months. During the month of March 13,000 troops were landed In the United States from Cuba. Germany la said to bo concentrating tv fleet at Amoy, with tho Intention of selzlnp; Futslen, China. News of tho massa te of twenty-nine farmers by aborigines at Byorsetsu, Japan, has been received. AtSparta, Mich., Leon Cram, aged 18, during a quarrel, killed Falmn Nelson, a comrade, by a blow with bis fist. The war department Is perfecting a plan to use native troops If possible in fighting Agulnaldo during the rainy season. Foreign business houses lost over 81,000,000 by the destruction of Hollo by tho Filipinos before General Miller captured cap-tured tho city,' Mr. Robert P. Porter, before leaving Berlin, discovered that German beet suear cannot bo manufactured under 2 cents a pound. Dispatches from Toldo to Japanese coast papers charge Americans with shooting down men, women and children child-ren In tho Philippines. The congress of Ecuador has Just enacted a law which within two years will place tho monetary system of that country on a gold basis. The monthly statement of the treasury treas-ury shows exceptionally heavy receipts and a material decrease In the expenditures expen-ditures for tho month of March. The Norwegian government has Issued Is-sued an order prohibiting Swedish officers from -inspecting forts or witnessing wit-nessing tho drill of troops in Norway. Judges of the supreme court of Hawaii Ha-waii in a decision declare that private corporations have not the authority to condemn government land for their own use. Ostriches may yet bo raised In British Brit-ish Columbia. J. M. Robinson, who has founded a little colony of Manitoblans at I'eqchland, in the Okanagan valloy, will attempt It. Oscar Straus, tho United States minister min-ister to Turkey, had an audience with tho Sultan Saturday. The interview! which was protracted, was of tho most cordial character. It is announced that tho Paris Fig. aro, which Is publishing daily tho evidence evi-dence before the criminal chamber ol the court of cessation in the Dreyfus affair, will bo prosecuted. The fearful ravages of the Yellow river flood have caused terrible misery and great discontent in the provinco oi Shantung, and tho natlvo odlclals bare been unable to maintain order. Tho April report tlio.OrBrige-Jn'dd Farmer makes tho general winter wheat average 83.1 compared with 80 last year. It Is the lowest average slnco tho beginning of service in 1801. Tho Argentine government has resolved re-solved to send a noto to W. T. Buchanan, Buchan-an, tho American Minister, thanking him for "Ills to-operatlon In the settlement settle-ment of the Puna do Atacama question. The Hongkong authorities are pressing press-ing for un extension of territory ceded to Great Britain by the treaties of Can. ton and Nanking, on tho ground that more land is needed for government buildings. Ofllolal circles in Rome say that Italy and Great Britain havo arrived at an agreement, which will result in an Italian occupation of San Mun bay, province of Chlkiang, China, before April 23. The marriage law of Porto Rico have been modified so that authority is given to ministers of all faiths to perform marriages, and the fees have been abolished where the ceremony is before be-fore a olvil magistrate. Dispatches from Rasjlboullt, on the Red Sea, say thoMarchand expedition, from Fashoda, arrived all well at Ad-dlsabeba, Ad-dlsabeba, tho capital of Abyssinia, on March 31, and met with a warm rccep' tlon from Abysslnlans. The London Dally Graphic announces that the Marquis of Salisbury approved the draft-ot the conn ntlon dcallnv !th the British and Husslm; sphf?) vf Influence In-fluence in China and thai the convention conven-tion awaits signatures. Attorney-General Davis of Arkansas has filed 120 Biilts against the sixty-three sixty-three fire Insurance companies doing buslnoss in Arkansas, and as a consequence conse-quence every foreign company lias suspended sus-pended business in that stato. In Bolivia, the Federalists, or lutur-gents, lutur-gents, have occupied the city of Cocha-bamba. Cocha-bamba. capital of tho department of tho sarao name, and General Alonzo, the president, has returned with the government troops to Oruro, his baso of operations. Michael Shea died In Indianapolis, Ind., last week at the advanced age of 118 years. He was was born in Ireland in 1871, and was a frlond of Daniel O'Connell. Shea was married when he was S3 years old and has children over 60 years of age. Claude Halladay, one of the mall clerks Injured at the Santa Fe wreck at Lang, Kan., in 1897, lias just settled with the company. Ho received 811,-BOO. 811,-BOO. He was In tho hospital eighteen months. Ono of his legs was permanently perma-nently injured. A serious collision has taken place between Bulgarian and Turkish frontier fron-tier guards nt Kosyl-Agob, between Jamboll, eastern Roumella, and Adrla-nople, Adrla-nople, pu the banks of the Toonja,' flftyslj. miles south of Jain boll. Both sides lost heavily. 1 |