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Show NEWSSUMMAEY. Korea. Is In trouble vrlth Russta OTr the recent seizure of a whaler. It Is asserted that there are 50,000 Russian troops now In Manchuria. The condition of the pope has bo-come bo-come more serious and bis physicians fear ha will not recorcr. An attempt was made to assassinate ITosht Toru, formerly Japanese Minister Minis-ter to the United Stales, recently. It Is stated that 8225,000 has been subscribed townrd the construction of the alumni hall at Yale university. In San Francisco a short, slmrp earth quake shock wns felt April S. The t1 bratlons lasted three or four seconds. It Is said that Glllctt, the abscond' I rip; cattle plunger, has (rone to South America to engage In the cattle busl ness. Military movements aro noticeable In the northern provinces of Spain In oont nectlon with tho Carllst's threatened uprising. The secretary of tho Interior has approved ap-proved tho plans of Director Walcott for the continuation of surveys In Alaska during tho summer of 1899. Trcmler Dupuy, In tho course of an Important speech to his constituents at Le Puy, said tho situation both at homo and abroad was eminently satisfactory. satis-factory. Ninety-four Chinese were killed and 123 wounded by Russian soldiers In the recent riot at Tallcn Wan, China. A Russian Interpreter was killed by tho Chinese.1, Returns from tho Irish county council coun-cil elections show that 300 Nationalists, National-ists, eighty-three Unlpnlsts, one labor candidate and one Liberal have been returned. News has been received at Yokohama that a French mission has been wrecked wreck-ed In tho prorlnco of Chun Clionff, Korea. Tho priest In charge was carried off. ' Orders hnvo been Issued directing that none of tho remnlns of yellow fever victims shall bo brought from Cuba to the United States until cold weather returns. Welling, N. -. dispatches say tholm. perlal government has accepted the offer of the colonial secretary to dispatch dis-patch a boat to Samoa, but the troops offered nro not required. Dr. George A. Rawson, who figured In a sensational divorce case In Seattle, Wash., a fow years ago, committed suicide at the Insane hospital, Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, Ind., by hanging. Four thousand ono hundred cans of beef have been destroyed at tho Regla warehouse, Havana, during the last threo months, without aotlon on the part of tho board of survey. Judgo Ortiz, In Havana, Insists that tho Incommunicado law is In full force, like all other Spanish laws which General Gen-eral Ilrooko'a proclamation of January 1 afllrmcd were to be unchanged. Tho plaguo Is still raging In Formosa, According to the latest advices eleven deaths had occurcd in Talnln and ona In Tlakokua, bringing tho total number num-ber of deaths since January 1, up to 233, Ten men In the mines In tho southern south-ern Illinois coal district have decided to strlko as a result of their employers' refusal to grant a raise of 25 cents a day. This will tie up at least 3,000 men. Capitalists from Chicago and other cities arc attempting to secure an option op-tion on all tho laundries of Indianapolis, Indianapo-lis, with a view toward purchasing them and uniting them Into ono combine. com-bine. Latest advices from the seat of hostilities hos-tilities In Iloliva say tho federalists or Insurgents now hold Cochabampa. l'otosl and Santa Cruz, but President Alonzo has reduced their positions near Oruro. Nearly all the wheat through central cen-tral Illinois, from Danville to Havana, considered the best portion of the stato, Is dead. Thero was a largo acreago sown last fall. Farmers are discouraged. discour-aged. Tho agricultural and mineral resources re-sources of Manchuria are stated to be Immense, aud tho Russians aro working work-ing so as to exploit them for their sole advantage. Land is being compulsory acquired. An effort Is being made to seeure for Philadelphia commercial museum's expositions next fall exhibits of manufactured manu-factured and raw products of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and tho Philippines. Philip-pines. At the suggestion of Rear-Admiral Bradford, chief of tho bureau of equipment, equip-ment, ncuraprehcnslvo scheme has been adopted by tho navy department undei which coaling stations will be placed at strategic points In the West Indlei as soon as possible. Major-Oeneral Wilson, mllltay gov ernorof the department of Matanzas, says, In the course of a private letter, that all tho Cubans formerly In armi In the Matanzas province aro now understood to be In Industrial employment, employ-ment, George It. Fern, adcalor In dry goods at 1303 West Madison streot, Chicago, was found dead on the floor of his store with a bullet wound In his right temple. Tho cash drawers wero rilled and Mr. Fern's pockuts turned Inside out. A secret movement Is said to be under way In Hawaii to flood the Islands with Portuguese laborers from tho Azores Islands. There will be from 9,000 to 10,000 Imported as soon as arrangements arrange-ments can bo completed, unless tho plan Is forestalled. It Is expected that all the troops which are now under orders to go to Manila by way of San Francisco, a portion por-tion of tho Sixth artillery, selected light artillery, Tweutyflrst and Thirteenth Thir-teenth Infantry, will leave tho Golden Onto by the Ut of May. |