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Show - ...NEWS SUMMARY. : . Senator John C. Spooner has been reelected re-elected by the Wisconsin legislature. : The distribution of bituminous coal at post price by the city of Chicago ha i Deen inaugurated. The Kansas - legislature has introduced intro-duced a bill imposing a tax cn bachelors bache-lors and old maids. German experts declare that hypnotism hypnot-ism is worthless in the matter of healing of diseases. Chile and Argentine are discussing the advisability of following a joint international policy. Bubonic plague is spreading so seriously ser-iously at Durban, Natal, that the natives na-tives are panic stricken. A detachment of Turkish troops has defeated a strong band of Macedonians near Lake Okbrida, Albania. The sentence of death passed upon Colonel Arthur Lynch has been commuted com-muted to penal servitude for life. . Dr. Maurice Fish berg of New Yorkj a -well known anthropologist, declares there is no such thing as the Hebrew race... ; . '' ' j. .Expert accountants .testified before the anthracite coal commission that the average wages of the coal miners is $654 per year. . At a joint meeting tf the Swedish-Norwegian Swedish-Norwegian council, Crown Prince Gus-taf Gus-taf assumed the duties of the regency of the two kingdoms. John Mitchell, president of Ihe United Mine-Workers of America, will be offered a place on the Illinois state board of arbitration. , The British war office has decided to invite tenders from Canadian farmers for the supply of fresh meat to the British in South Africa. The Italian chamber of deputies de-, de-, cided to send congratulations by wireless wire-less telegraphy to Signor Marconi on the success of his work. I ' Dr. David J. Hill, who resigned the ' office of assistant secretary of state to . accept the office of minister to Switzer-.land, Switzer-.land, has sailed to his post. : The marine engineers' strike on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, which has been on for the past six months, has been formally declared off. British revenue returns are more favorable than everybody has been willing to admit. The estimated reve- ! nue will be exceeded in nearly every 1 instance. ' - j Liverpool and Manchester, hitherto deadly rivals in trade, have entered : into a partnership in order to bring . about cotton-growing within the British Brit-ish empire. , Three hundred engineers and firemen fire-men belonging to the state railroads j have joined the strike of the employees of the transportation ; companies at Amsteraam. ; According to the Vienna Weiner Zeitung, Emperor Francis Joseph has decided to deprive the crown princess of Saxony of, all her archducal titles and prerogatives. - At the thirteenth annual banquet of the Confederate Veteran's Camp of New Yprk, a Confederate toasted Lincoln, while a Union man responded to the toast "Robert E. Lee." La Tarde, the Liberal party newspaper news-paper of Santiago, asserts that negotiations negotia-tions are in progress for the sale to the United States of the two Chilean warships war-ships now being built in England. ' . The senate committee on finance has authorized a favorable report on the bill to increase the subsidiary silver coinage. The Democratic members of the committee opposed the, report. As an outccme of support given by ,the municipality of Vienna to the 'working tailors, the strike of 19,000 of the latter has ended by the. masters conceding an increase of wages of 30 per cent. - The house committee on military has reported favorably a bill to appropriate $oi,500 for marking the position of the regular establishments, infantry, artillery ar-tillery and cavalry, on the Gettysburg battlefield.. Representative Patterson of Tennessee Tennes-see has introduced an' anti-trust bill. It seeks to accomplish the regulation of trusts through the agency of the bureau of corporations in the proposed department of commerce. In El Paso, Texas, Fred J. Feldman, a photographer, shot and' Instantly killed T. C. Casey, a former traveling man, who was entering his home for the purpose oi burglary, he being equipped with burglar tools. Four men were probably fatally burned as the result of an explosion at the Standard Oil refining works at Cleveland, O., Friday. A safety valve exploded with terrific force and two oil etilU caught fire immediately afterward. |
