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Show NEWS SUMMARY A new Franco-Russian loan of 1,000,-000,000 1,000,-000,000 francs is to be raised, bnt it will not be issued for some time. The imports of dry goods and merchandise mer-chandise at the port of New York for last week are valued at $11,247,804, An express train for Vienna collided at Palota, Eoumania Sunday, with a petroleum train, killing eight persons and injuring nine. San tos-Dumont's airship had another anoth-er accident Thursday during a trial at Longchamps. The iir ship struck a tree and was torn. The aeronaut was not hurt. The bank at Shellsburg, la., was broken into Thursday, the safe blown open with dynamite and about S3700 in cash secured. The burglars left on a handcar. It is estimated at Fall River, Mass., that 43,000,000 yards of black cotton cloth will not supply the demand during dur-ing the designated period of mourning for the late president. Exports of silver from this country to all countries for last week aggregate 8557,165, and of gold S4760. The imports im-ports of specie this week were $125,356 gold and 842,457 silver. Emperor William has conferred the grand cross of the Order of the Red Eagle npon Prince Chun, head of the Chinese mission of expiation, for the murder of Baron von Kettler. The Illinois State Board of Pardons has refused to pat don Josheph W. Spalding, formerly president of the Globe Savings bank, Chicago, who is serving ten-year term in the pen. The President has appointed Colonel James M. Bell, Eighth cavalry, and president of the military board of review, to be a Brigadier-General, vice Brigadier-General Ludlow, deceased. William B. Ridgely, whose appointment appoint-ment to the Comptrollership of the Currency is announced, will within a few davs resign the vice-nresidenpv of the Republic Iron and Steel company. Asked to make a brief statement as to how he regarded the policy of President Presi-dent Roosevelt, so far as it had been expressed, Senator Ilanna said: ' I am done with being interviewed for all time." Mr. Kruger, according to a dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Brussels, Brus-sels, is preparing a memorial to President Presi-dent Roosevelt soliciting the interfer- ence of the United States in South Africa. . The plague returns in India for last week show G3S6 deaths, against 48S3 in the preceding week, aud 1136 in the corresponding week last year. Most of the deaths were in Bombay presidency. President Roosevelt, in conformity with his policy to carry out as far as possible the plans of President McKinley, McKin-ley, announces the appointment of W. R. Ridgley of Springfield, 111., as Comptroller Comp-troller of the Currency. In San Francisco the strike situation remains unchanged. A large mass meeting was held in Metropolitan temple tem-ple Saturday. A number of addresses were made reviewing the strike, its causes and present status. The Sovereign grand lodge, I. O. O F., has decided that where a saloon is run in connection with a hotel the proprietor of the hotel shall be regarded regard-ed as a saloon-keeper and not eligible to membership in the order. In Nebraska City, Neb., Saturday, Hall Frampton, a negro who murdered his stepdaughter February 17tb, was arraigned, indicted, tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state pris- on in less than thirty minutes. The hearing in the case of Maggio, the anarchist, at Santa Fee, N. M., suspected of complicity in the conspiracy conspira-cy to assassinate President McKinley, has been postponed, owing to the ab-scence ab-scence of his attorney, W. B. Childers. Commenting upon the accession ol Mr. Roosevelt to the presidency, the London Statist decries the idea that he is an imperialist in an aggresiva sense, and it expresses the opinion that he will maintain the present excellent ex-cellent financial status of the United States. There seems to be no probability of a settlement at an early date of the strike trouble in San Francisco, and the unions have settled down to a grim siege while the employerscontin-iie employerscontin-iie with their wearing out policy which they have maintained from the beginning. |