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Show NEWS sraniAitT. Peace Is now rc-cstabllslicd In Vine iurl i,utcst ndvlccs from Manila show that Admiral Dowcy Is In perfcot health. A trentj lint hcen entered Into bo ttveen Great llrltaln and tho Friendly Islnnds. The (rrent steel combination, which liai prnctlcally been completed, will hare n capital of 310,000,000. The local branch of tho Canadian Hank of Commerco nt Dresden, Out., hna been robbed of an amount estimated esti-mated nt 810,000. The London Times comments on tho Philippine situation, stntlng thnt tho United States Is inakln( sat (factory progresi. Tho entire plnnt of the California powdor works nenr I'Inole, Cnl., was moro or less tlamnired by nn explosion Ono man was slightly Injured. Oovcrnor-Ooncral llrooke 1ins signed tho commissions of tho president and the nssoclnto justices of tho rccontly constituted supremo court of Culm. Kecclptsln the Havana custom house for April justify, It Is said, tho pro diction thnt tho collection at thut port for 1809 will roach fully 810,000,000. Tho Herman (roTcrnmont has telegraphed tele-graphed orders to tho Herman consul nt Manila to give pecuniary ntd to distressed dis-tressed Hermans In the Philippines. Tho Duke d'Arcos, tho newly appointed ap-pointed .Spanish mlnlsterto tho United Stntcs hos started upon his journoy to his now post nt Wnshlngton by way of Paris .1, M. Johnson, chief clerk of the railway mall serrlco nt Los Angles, hns been detailed to go to Honolulu to tnko charge of the transfer of malls at thnt port. No now cases of smallpox have appeared ap-peared among tho soldiers nt tho Presidio or on board tho transport, nnd It Is belloved the dlscaso has been stamped out. I Hcneral Henry at San Juan Is mak i tng fair progress In tho plan of enlistment enlist-ment of 400 Porto Illcnns In tho United Unit-ed States nrmy for service In their na , tlvo country. j United States Minister to Nicaragua Nicara-gua William I j. Merry, has ngrced to a settlement of the claims of United Slates oltlzens there against the Nlca-raguan Nlca-raguan government. Acting Secretary of War Melklejohn by direction of tho president, has mado a u u m be r of amendments to the tarlfl schedules nnd port regulations in Porto Hlco mid Cuba. Tho death of Miss Lllllc Cunningham Cunning-ham at Klrksvllle, Mo., makes the thirty-fourth death resulting from the tornado of April 27. Others aro In a critical condition. United States Cousul-Honcral Osborne Os-borne nt Apia has refused to pay King Tumi's salary for tho month of January. Janu-ary. Proceedings haro bcon taken agalnsthlm In tho supremo court, Hcneral Charles P. Egan, prominent In tlio army beef scandal, hns sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu on tho steamer Australia. Hcneral Kngan and his family will spend several months there. Bencral Ramon Hara, formerly Venezuelan Ven-ezuelan minister of. war and marine, who started the revolution last February Feb-ruary nnd was finally severely defeated defeat-ed by the government, has escaped Into Colombia. Klght Chllkut Indians who wero ob. structlng the construction of a trail by I white men from Ilalue's mUsIon to j KluUvrun up tho Chllkat river hnvs , been arrckted nnd sentenced to thirty dtiy imprisonment. 8pnln is collecting evidence nt Hongkong Hong-kong with u view of clulmliig n cession of laud in China ni indemnity from the Chlncso government for permitting the steamer Abboy to leave Canton luut Au" gust with arms for the Phlllpplna insurgents. in-surgents. The llusslan government has addressed ad-dressed a Irlondly protest to tho German Ger-man government regarding tho appointment ap-pointment as ono of Herinauy's delegates dele-gates to tho peace conference nt The Huguo of l'rikf. Von Stengel of Munich university. John 0. Wagoner, who hns carried a bullet in his head slnco the Custer tnusbnere in 1870, committed suicide at Stillwater, Minn., last week. Ho wns chief of HiMicral Custer's pack train nnd was at tho massacre of the Little Illg Horn. A Ryndionto of eight-six aliens who were excluded from Atltu, Aluska, hns been formed to bring cult against th-i Cunadiau government for 1 15,000,000. Damages nro alalmod for property lost ' by tho exclusion of the plulntHTs from tho famous district. l'ostmnster-Oenernl Smith has made n ruling thai the sign "United States mail," or other signs Indicating tho ourrlago of tho malls, must bo carried only by such ear on street railway lines as actually nt the time are transporting trans-porting the malls. In Hutchinson, Kan., John Mooro, who in March last out tho throats of his live little children, crushed their skulls with n hatchet anil then set tire to the. hoiifeo In order to conceal his erimo, has been convicted of murder In the ilrst degree. Kdwnrd Atkinson says that tho demand de-mand for copies of tho pamphlets which tho nttorney-general recently ordered taken 'rum tho Philippine mall has lucreusvd so rapidly within the past few days that the supply lias been exhausted temporarily. Olllclal assurances have been given to our government that the agrcotneut reached between Hroat llrltaln and Itubtla as to tho sphoro of iiiUuenco in China, concerns only tho two parties, and that in no luunuer does it alTn)t the, interests of the United States. t |