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Show NEWSSUMMAilY . The coal famine in Kansas is practically prac-tically broken. Yellow jack is causing six deaths a day at, Guayaquil, Ecuador. In Honolulu it is currently reported that Attorney General E. P. Dole has resigned his office. James J. Corbett has sent $2,500 to Al Smith in New York as a forfeit for a match with Jeffries. Boston's crop of beans is running low and the city is threatened with a famine of the commodity. Mahud Pasha, brother-in-law of the sultan of Turkey and leader in the Turkish reform party, died at Brussels Sunday. Editor Gonzales, who was shot by Lieutenant Governor Tillman, is improving, im-proving, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. The claim of May Yohe (Mrs. Putnam Put-nam Bradlee Strong) against her former for-mer husband, Lord Hope, for $45,000, has been settled for $5,000. At Purdy, Mo., J. M. Huff, proprietor of a hotel, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. Domestic troubles caused the tragedy. .A combination of all the boat building build-ing interests on the Ohio and Mississippi Missis-sippi rivers, with a capitalization of $5,000,000, is being organized. Abram S. Hewitt, former mayor of New York, and for many .years representative repre-sentative in congress, is dead, in. his 81st year, after ten days' illness. Laura Foster, mother of former Governor Gov-ernor Charles W. Foster of Ohio, is dead, aged 100 years. Her husband founded Fostoria, and from him it took its name. Governor Thompson B. Ferguson of Oklahoma has set down his official foot on the use of bloomers by girls who attend the Territorial educational institutions. A Dill has been introduced in the Missouri legislature establishing a whipping post. Another bill has for its purpose the abol'tion of the death penalty for murder. The official figures show 4714 per-,sns per-,sns lost their lives, and that 33,112 houses were destroyed as a result of the recent earthquakes at Andijan, Russian Turkestan. M. Goubet, the inventor of the sub-marine sub-marine torpedo boat bearing his name, who, as announced January 12th, was recently confined in an asylum for tha insane in Paris, is dead. The agricultural bill has been prepared pre-pared by the house committee on agriculture. ag-riculture. It carries approximately $6,000,000, or about $80,000 more than the current appropriation. The crown princess of Saxony and M. Giron, with whom she eloped, have arrived at Mentone, France, and intend in-tend to stay two months: They have taken the name of M. and Mme. Andre Gerard. Two battalions of the foreign legion, le-gion, stationed in Algeria, have been ordered to be in readiness to proceed to the Moroccan frontier. The troops are being equipped for active service in the field. The American consul in Algeria, Donnell Kidder, says the report circu- lated in London that his wife was assaulted and roboed by footpads was exaggerated, and the incident was without importance. An explosion of a gas main in the business center of Joliet, Ills., wrecked Zeigert's barber shop and injured two barbers. Scores of people had narrow escapes. A three-story business block nearby is in a partial state of collapse. col-lapse. Four kegs of powder exploded in a Slav boarding house in Windber, Pa. Six Slavs who are believed to be mortally mor-tally injured were seated together in a room, and it is said that one of them woo onflpavnrinE to dry a quantity of powder. According to a Honolulu dispatch, the Hawaiian Exhibit' association is preparing to ask the legislature for an appropriation of $50,000 for an exhibit at the St. Louis exposition. About $20,000 will be spent on a building, according ac-cording to present plans. : While attempting to arrest a negro desperado, Will Davis, at Pacolet Mills, S. C, Officer Jacob Smith was shot to death. Davis escaped, but the entire community is looking - for him and a lynching is feared if he is caught. A plan of S. T. Harensid, a Hungarian Hun-garian student at Tiffin, O., to organize organ-ize his countrymen in the United States into . Christian associations, under the direction of the Reformed church, was adopted by the board of home missions. |