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Show NEWS SUMMARY. - The marriage of Senator Chauncey M. Depew to Miss Palmer will take place at Nice, France, on Christmas eve. Miss Ellen M. Stone, the captive American missionary, was recently seen alive at Koprivenkolibi, near Dubnitza. In Washington Wednesday the Red Cross society held its annual meeting and unanimously re-elected Miss Clara Barton president of the society. Three children of Tunis, Pons, of Pompton Lake, N. J., were drowned Wednesday night while skating. The children were aged 16, 12 and 10 years. The Women's league at Manila has received a cablegram to the effect that the Filipino General Lukban, is in Samar pleading for adiseontinuauce cj hostilities. Some of the peo'ple of Diaper have taken a stand against the introduction of a saooon in their midst, and have brought the matter into the courts for settlement. E. L. Powell, manager, of the brokerage brok-erage businessof Murphy & Co. of New York, has disappeared from Wilson, N. C, and it is reported he is $4.0,000 short in his accounts. The Democratic leaders of the senate have notified the Republicans that the minority does not feel called upon to provide committee places for either Senator McLanrin or Senator Wellington. It is understood in Consantinople that recommendations have been forwarded for-warded to Washington, proposing that an ultimatum be sent to Bulgaria, regarding re-garding release of Miss Stone by brig" ands. Captain James Parker, who was one of Admiral Schley's counsel before the court of inquiry, is engaged in the tolleetion of material for a biography of Admiral Schley which he proposes to write. The bank of Sturgis, Ky., was robbed of $35,000 between midnight and dawn Friday. The work was done quietly and nothing was known about the robbery rob-bery until the bank was opened for business. Thomas Cody, charged with stealiug thirteen biiycles from various parties in Los ADgeles, pleaded guilty in the criminal court and was sentenced by Judge Smith Friday to serve ten years in San Quentin. Lying on the floor of the closet in his own home in Denver, -with his dead body wedged against the door. Adam Oetter was found by his aged wife Friday. He had been missing since Monday evening. The Boers still believe that European intervention is imminent, that Great Britain is tired of the war, and that they have only to hold out long enough in order to make the British so weary that they will surrender. Bound, gagged and blindfolded, the dead body of Edward Eichhorn, a German Ger-man farmer, wes found in his late home Thursday night three miles east of Duquoin, Iowa. Robbery is supposed sup-posed to have been the motive. General Bruce-Hamilton, after a night march, surprised and captured practically the whole of the Boer Bethel Beth-el command at Trichardsfontein early Tuesday morning. Seven Boers were killed and 131 were made prisoners. The police of Patterson, N. J., have been asked to keep a -lookout for a well dressed, refined looking woman who has been going about that city representing that she is authorized to collect funds for the liberation of Miss Stone. Carefully-compiled statistics of the British empire, published by a trade paper, bring out the rather startling fact that out of a population of nearly 400,000,000 about 48.880,000, or less than one-eigth, are of British birth or descent. s In Los Angeles, Cal., articles of incorporation in-corporation of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company have been filed. This step was considered necessary because of the law governing foreign corporations corpora-tions enacted at the last session of the legislature. Lord Kitchener has not had to wait long for some results from his new plan of operations against General Botha, by constructing a line of blockhouses. block-houses. He has had General Botha's forces inclosed in an area of 10,000 square miles. Owing to objections being made to France's furnishing the whole of the projected Russian loan of 40,000,000, financiers in the United States will 6hortly be sounded as to the possibility of placing 20,000,000 of the loan in that country. |
