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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The plague at Mazatlan, Mexico, is abating. Conferences between the Japanese political parties have commenced. ; ' Morocco has accepted the invitation . for an exhibit at the St. Louis fair. The will of Mrs. U. S. Grant divides , . her property equally among her four 4. children. Hadda Mullah, who caused so many outbreaks on the northwest frontier of India," died Dec. 22. tOne hundred miners were caught In a mine fire in a Russian colliery and but twenty escaped. The finances of Guam are in a serious seri-ous condition, as reported by the governor gov-ernor of the island. Thirty persons were killed in the wreck "on the Colorado & Southern near Trinidad, Colo. Nine people were injured in a trolley car accident at Pittsburg, Pa., caused by the car running away. The strike of Illinois Central freight-handlers freight-handlers has been declared off and the men have gone back to work. Notification of the conclusion of an arbitration treaty between Spain and Uruguay is gazetted in Madrid. Fire in the factory of the Standard Rack Candy company in Brooklyn did i damage to the amount of $100,000. . While coasting in St. Louis two girls, aged 15 and 17, were plunged into the Mississippi river and drowned. In a head-on collision on the Grand Trunk railway at Wanstead, Ontario, five persons were killed and sixteen injured. The Greek steamer Parthenon, having hav-ing on board a crew of twenty-two men and six passengers, is reported to have been lost. A severe earthquake was experienced experi-enced at Syracuse, Sicily, Sunday evening. It was preceded by subterranean subter-ranean rumblings. The Association of Hoot and Shoe Manufacturers of France has decided to immediately advance the scale of prices for footwear. The secretary of state is preparing a suitable response to a special message mes-sage to the president from the dowager dow-ager empress of China. At Springville, Ala., Professor Jacob Forney of the state university was accidentally ac-cidentally killed while shooting spar-, - rows with a parlor rifle ' " John D. Rockefeller is said to be one Of the chief stockholdsrs of the billion dollar gas company that has secured the contract to light Paris. The warships of the allied powers are using searchlights to watch the coasts of Venezuela. Forty vessels are now detained at La Guayra. Robbers dynamited the home of Robert Rob-ert Floyd of Mannington, W. Va. Mr. Floyd was instantly killed and Mrs. Floyd and a servant girl seriously injured. Secretary Root has decided that it was impracticable for General Chaffee, General Smith and others to go to the Philippines to testify at the Glenn courtmartial. Judge Samuel J. Clarke, who led an overland expedition to Colorado in 1849, and said to be the last survivor of the first legislature of that state, is dead in Geneva, N. Y. James Peterson, a widower, aged 62, and his daughter, aged 15, were found dead at their home in Racine, Wis., having been asphyxiated by coal gas escaping from a stove. Several alleged anarchists who were refused admission into the United States have arrived at Genoa on the way to their homes. They have been placed under police surveillance. It is said that the mob which lynched Montgomery Godley at Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Kan., for the murder of a policeman,' police-man,' hanged the wrong man, as it ws Godley's, brother who committed the crime. After snending Christmas pleasantly j with her family, Mrs. Ella Sweetland of St. Louis killed herself by shooting. She had expressed a fear of paralysis, and it is believed brooding over this prompted the deed. The funeral of Aaron Burton, the colored col-ored bodyguard of Colonel John F. Mosby, the well known confederate cavalry leader, has been held at the home of his daughter in Brooklyn. Burton was 90 years old. When Mr. Marconi lectured at Dundee Dun-dee he gave full credit to the Scotch Inventor, James Bowman Lindsay, for being the first man who thoroughly believed in the possibility and utility of long-distance wireless telegraphy, fifty years ago. |