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Show NEWS SUMMARY. I Dr. Sllvinna Brandao, vice-president of Brazil, is dead. ,U Knormons prices are being charged . H for foodstuffs at Colon. - W w A aecond expedition against the en- ' m trenched Moroa of Mindanao Is undei way. i. Mount Aetna shows further algns of activity and the volcano of 8tromboll ? Is active. Advices from Macedonia show that j the Insurrectionary movement there U I Increasing. I A cyclone wrought havoc at Modlea, 3 a town of Sicily, where several person! j? were killed. g A trust has gained control of 60 per i cent, of the spinning and weaving mills In the s,onlh. Nome has been storm-swept again, with the loss of two lives and heavy t, damage to shipping. There Is terrible suffering at Santa. Marta, Colombia, as the Insurgents are nj Intercepting tho supplies. . ffl Direct cable communication between sfj the United States and the Philippines M will be established by July 1, 1003. f An official telegram to the Korea $ legation, Berlin, says the emperor of Mj Korea is alive and in the best of health. sS In London the new amalgamation of Ifl British and American tobacco interest &i has been received with mixed feeling. wfS Viceroy Tseng, with two battalion! M of the Bhanai province guard, has de- -Jk M featcd the Boxers outside of Cheng To -r 1 A strike on the tram car lines of SJij ffeneva has led to serious disorders and jM the complete stoppage of the tram J service. Wl Tlie statement is made that within if! eighty dnys messages will pass ovel $$ the Pacific cable between San Francis- $ co and Honolulu. M A number of prominent people in Panama are said to have been irnprls- JM oned because they sympathized with (H tho robol movement. iff. Official reports say that 8,000 persona '4C have emigrated to the United States 1fc3 from Greece during the past year, and the exodus continues. In Salonlca, European Turkey, the military forces have been called out and troops are being dispatched into the interior of Macedonia. The city council of Detroit, Mich., has adopted resolutions favoring a movement to force the resumption of coal production in Pennsylvania. It is reported on authority that Bolivia Bo-livia is disposed to accept the modifications modifica-tions of the Acre lease contract pro- jo posed by the Brazilian government. IS The Madrid correspondent of the 78 Loudon Morning Leader says thirty M miners have been killed at Masearron, M province of Mureia, by poisonous gas. , ffi The Bolivian foreign minister and Sj the Peruvian plenipotentiary have js signed a treaty settling the boundary S question between their respective couu- 5 tries. M The situation on tho Isthmus of Pan- oma remains unchanged. Free transit 1 between Colon und Panama obtains il nnd the American marines are still uu traveling on all trains. M The national committee to which S the national congress of French miners ffi referred the question of date of the V& general strike, is composed entirely of p members opposed to a strike. ?M The Russian government estimates iS the harvest as follows: Wheat, 810,000,- TfS 000 poods (a pood equals forty pounds); IM rye, 1,335,000,000 poods; oats, 750,000,- 000; barley, 375,000,000 poods. 1$ A patent has been secured covering a novel engine for marine propulsion, ' which John Wllllt, the inventor, as- Vr serts will reduce the crossing of the fl Atlantic to al least a three day's jour- SI noy. M General Botha, the former Boer com- S munder, In a speech said he received $100,000 In aid of the destltuto Boers from Arlbur White, nn American, and appealed to others to follow his ex- X ample. Bessie Hickland, who murdered a 13- ( is year old boy nt Wilson, Knnsns, last 5 July, and who wub found guilty of ' murder in tho second degree a few ' duys ugo, has been sentenced -to 2a ; yearn in the penitentiary.. Sunday night several sticks of dynamite dyna-mite were exploded under the step of I Columbus Walton's house at South St. Joseph, aud tho mnln part of the structure was destroyed. The family miraculously escaped injury. The Danish West India Islands have the most Intelligent population In the Wcbt Indies and St, Thomas Is a modern mod-ern town. Tho Americans will, it la said, make it a second Saratoga and It j will become a center of American ! wealth, ; Among eight horses destroyed in a. ' burn which burned nt Prootor Knott, j Minn,, Sunduy, was '"Smoky," former. I ly Buffalo Bill's favorite horse. Frederick Fred-erick Beinington's masterpiece Is said to be a picture of Buffalo Bill mounted ou Smoky. I The Vienna Ncuo Welner Journal I announces that as a result of tho revolt ffi of peasants in the district of Badeny, 1 Hungary, the military were called on to suppress the disorder and fired a . Hu volley, killing four psraens and wound. Jn WT Ing others. w 9 |