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Show NEWS SUMMARY. General Chaffee will leave Pekio for 'Tien Tsin soon. The Bolivian force have occupied Puerto Alono, the stronghold of the revolution in Acre. Harry O. Rouse, the pioneer bicycle manufacturer of the west is dead in Peoria, 111., aged 40 years. Forty-two fishing vessel are ashore In the atraits of Belle 11 and a many as thirty will be a total loss. An imperial edict received at Canton appoints Li Hung Chang, Prince Ching and Sheng to be peace negotiators. Marshal Martin de Campo died Sunday morning shortly after 10 o'clock t Zarauz, near San 8ebastain, Spain. Thirty-one new ease of yellow fever have been officially reported in Havana, making nearly 100 now under treat merit. According to the Daily Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent, Eussia will claim an lodemnlty of 100,000,000 irom iUina. Magnus Swenzln, a ssbinetmaker, drowned himself in the North river, New York, after tying his own hands with fish Huts. Germany's coal imports during August Aug-ust ehowed an incresss of 799,233 ton over Auguatof 199, the exports howd an increase of 77,132 tons. There are no developments which would lead to the belief that the estimate esti-mate of a property loss of $22,000,000 In Galveston is too high. Five additional cases of bubonic plague have been reported in Glasgow, (four of the stricken persons being jxnembers of the same family. The plan to withdraw the German legation from Pekin has bean temporarily tempo-rarily abandoned, pending the receipt -of further instructions from Berlin, j Cecil Rhodes, according to the Cape I Town correspondent of the . London 'Mail, denies that he is in favor of importing im-porting Chinese labor into Rhodesia. The incomes of German railways last month aggregated 135,000,000 marks, or an increase of 11,000,000 marks upon tha figures of August, 1899. If occasion demands, eo-operative stores and bakeries will be established -all through the anthracite region and rations issued after the fashion of the army. Judge Mann of Galveston states that , in his opinion the list of dsad would go as high as 7,000. The exact number, num-ber, of course, will never be definitely fcnown. An expedition under the auspices of the German Colonial society will leave on November 10 for Togo, West Africa, to make experiments in cotton growing fn that region. The department of the interior is taking steps to prevent further suffering suffer-ing among the Pima Indiana on the Sactoo reservation, caused by a scarcity scarci-ty of irrigation water. In reply to a telegram sent by the London Express, the Transvaal conaul-general conaul-general states that the objsct of Mr. Kruger's proposed European trip is personal and not political. Jim Corbett, th prize-fighter, who is a passenger on the Cunard line .steamer Campania, which left Liverpool Liver-pool last week for New York, is traveling trav-eling under an assumed name. George D'Vys, the late surviving member of the government relief expedition ex-pedition which rescued Dr. Esne, the American Arctic explorer, in 1855. is .dead in Worcester, Mass., aged 68 years. Bolivia has formally communicated to the United States an argument in support of its claim to a port on tda , Pacific ocean in case the provinces of Tacna and Arica are decided to belong to Chile. Prince Albert of Saxony was killed In a carriage accident Sunday at Wolkau, a short distance from Dresden. Dres-den. He was tha fifth son of Prince Frederick George of Saxony, brother of the king. A German naval battalion, accompanied accom-panied by forty Bengal Lancers, captured cap-tured and burned the town of Liang. September 11th. A hundred Boxeri were killed. German loss, on man killed, five wounded. An Important functionary oi tn -German foreign office now in Pari .says that it will soon be generally ree--ognized that Germany, Great Britainn and Japan are in accord as to the policy pol-icy to be followed in China. At Texas City a Philadelphia news- j paper has established a relief depot which is doing splendid work. This Journal sent down a trainload of supplies, sup-plies, a staff of spscial correspondent, a eorp- of physioian d a band of -trained naraea: - |