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Show NEWS SUMMA11Y. The Weiser smelter, which will be completed soon, will not be blown Id until March. Customs Collector Haley, at Tucson, Arizona, has been indicted for smuggling smug-gling Chinese. The Hamburg metal-workers havt petitioned the Senate of Hamburg to provide employment through rcliei vorks. The Victoria, B. C, Sealing company Das already shipped to London 500C skins taken by their schooners this season. Bert Mott of Elgin has been arrested in Pecatonica, 111., on the charge of being implicated in the Chicago post-office post-office robbery. There is a movement in Honolulu to erect, a monument in honor of the late President McKinley. It is supported by all elements. While the Manchester cotton trade with the United States is not so large this year as last, there has been bo material decline. Articles of incorporation of the Cuban Sugar Refining company have been filed in the county clerk's office, ' Jersy City. Capital, $300,000. It is almost certain that Benjamii Carey of Astoria, Or., and James Torey of Montana, were victims of the mad torrent, which flooded Skaguay. Rev. Da-qiel Franz and wife of Fair-view, Fair-view, KartE were killed outright and hree othea-itrjured at Cedarville, I1L, by beingtfcijushed by a failing tree. Ij view of threatened coal miners' strike iu France, the government has taken precautions to prevent disturbance disturb-ance and to enable foreign coal to be The government has ;let contracts arranging for a good mail system for . that portion of southeastern Alaska between Juneau and the Aleutian archipelago. Hall Caine has been elected to re- present the town of Ramsey in thjti.' Manx Parliament, recei 'ing458 "" - to 191 cast for his opponent, a local lawyer named Kermode. ' A dispatch from Swatow says that I 140 rebels have been executed and that order has been restored in the Nsing-Ning Nsing-Ning district, where several mission have recently been destroyed. Admiral Rogers has cabled the navy department his arrival on his flagship New York at Cathalogan, Samar, with marines to co-operate with the army in suppressing the insurrection. The steamship Centennial will make another trip north this season carrying supplies and a large number of horses to be used in a stage line during the winter between Nome and Jliamna. The Western Society of the Army of the Potomjc has prepared a memorial which will be sent to Mrs. McKinley at Canton Thursday. It contains a set of Resolutions passed by the organization. organiza-tion. ! A model of a torpedo designed for use in warfare has been given a trial in San Francisco bay by the inventor, John F. Perkins, late of New Zealand. The trial was apparently satisfactory. satisfac-tory. The news of John Mackay's plan for a cable across the Pacific was received with delight in Honolulu, which has long suffered for lack of communica-t communica-t tion except by steamer with the main- land. Dr. George J. Augur, a Honolulu physician, recently applied to the board of health for permission to privately treat some leprosy cases, claiming to have a cure, but was refused. re-fused. Japanese treasury officials announce the issue of exchequer checks to the - amount of 10,000,000 yen, repayable in three months at 7 per centl Negotia tions continue for the sale of the bonds abroad. Coal formerly carried from the United States to Europe for S3. 75 and $4 a ton is now carried for $3. General cargo from the Gulf to Denmark that brought SI and $5 a ton is now being thken for $3.13 During the past year 111 Chinese converts were added to the roll of the Congregation association of Christian Chinese. This is the greatest number ever converted in any year through the efforts of the organization. Mrs. Anna E. Taylor of Bay City, - Mich., who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, said she desired to attract the attentian of museum and theatrical managers, iu order to secure money to provide a home for herself |