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Show . NEWS SUMMARY. Tteports aro again In circulation ot Russia's need to raise money. Qold has boon discovered near Now.-ark, Now.-ark, 6., by a Klondlko miner, and thero Is great excitement In that section. sec-tion. Rumors omanato from various quarters quar-ters that troublo Is Imminent botween Russia and China, but thero Is no authentic au-thentic news to this offccL Btatehood and ship subBidy will bo tho features of tho houso prqccedlngs at Washington this weok, with con-forenco con-forenco reports nnd minor bills to All In tho gaps. Emperor William Is credited with having Bfcited that ho would bo ready to meet President Loilbet, "should tho occasion arlso, beforo tho end of tho Mediterranean cruise. Amor Nnth, an Indian prlnco from Lahoro, India, was knocked from a blcyclo at Lafayctto, Ind., and probably prob-ably fatally Injured. Nnth Is a stu-dont stu-dont at Porduo university. According to tho reports of spies, tbo Japanese troops In Koroa havo boon ravaged by various diseases. Ono of thoso diseases, called "Imblon," Is a kind of Intermittent typhus. Ex-Congressman Androw Harrison Ward, who In tho years Immediately following tho civil war was tho foremost fore-most lawyer of Kentucky, Is dead at Cynthlann, Ky., aged 70 yoars. Ono man was killed, two girls -woro dangorously burnod and eight other porsons injured by an explosion In tho dyeing establishment of William Mots-tor, Mots-tor, In the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Judging from tho Information which It has 'received, tho Italian government considers as groundless tho plot alleged al-leged to havo bon hatched of Marseilles Marseil-les to kill President Loubet during his coming visit to. Italy. It Is reported from Dudapest that negotiations aro proceeding botween prominent Hungarian financiers and tho Hamburg-Amorlcnn lino, looking to the organization -of an Independent stoamshlp company In Hungary. Lowls Pesant was hanged In Chicago Chi-cago for the murder of Mrs. Mary1 Spllka. Ho ontercd tho woman's home whllo sho was alono and struck her on the head with a club. Then ho klckod and pounded hor to death. About 76 per cent of tho window-glass window-glass manufacturers of the United States met In Cincinnati and decided to Increase tho prlco of glnss IB per cont within tho next three months and to shut down tho mills on Juno 1st. A man bellovod to bo Fahey, tho escaped convict from tho Folsom, Cal., prison, fought a duel with officers of-ficers near Hnnford, Cal., and when ho saw capturo was Inovitnblo, shot himself In tho hoad, Inflicting a fatal wound. University of Michigan "co-ods" hiro tho carriages, buy the flowora and foot all tho bills of tho leap year promenndo given In the university gymnasium. Tho only mannish function func-tion left for tbo young men Is tq call for tho girls. It Is doomed Improbablo that tho Pacific Mail liner Colon will over loavo tho beach near Acjulta, on which sho was driven to savo hor from foundering. Tho Pacific Mail company has rocolvod word that tho vessel's back was brokon. George Clausor, aged 40; Edith M. Motzlor, aged IB, and Stella Knaus, aged 17, were struck and Instantly killed by a Reading railway passenger passen-ger train near their home at Macun-glo, Macun-glo, Pa., whllo walking home from church on tho railroad track. A dramatic turn was given to the trial of Roeskl, tho Chicago car barn bandit Qustax Marx, who la under sontonco to hang noxt wook, took tho witness stand nnd sworo that ho, not Roeskl, fired the fatal shot In tho raurdor for which Rooakl Is on trial. Tho Iroquois thoatro In Chicago, In which COO Hvos wero lost during a firo last Docomber, has boon sold to Rich & Harris of Now York, and Boston. Tho playhouso will bo 'reconstructed, rofurnlshod nnd oponod early noxt fall is a vaudevlle theatie under another namo. In vlow of tho 'ddmands made by the wnr on tho financial resources, of Russia, tho omporor has directed that tbo operations of . tho noble? and poasants bnnkR which mnko loans to tbo nobility Rnd ponsantry respectively. respec-tively. Rlmll be restricted for tho presont. Judgo Wlckorsham wlros from Fairbanks, Alaska, fu tho Tanana district, that tho cloau-up thero this wlnlor will excoed 5100,000. Also that thoro will bo good summer digging. Wages aro fl an hour. Labor and provisions uro senrcq. Tho town is building up rapidly. A few minutes before losing consciousness, con-sciousness, Joseph Haley of Kalamazoo, Kalama-zoo, Mich., formerly a circus acrobat, pleaded for a clgaretto, which ho calmly lighted, saying ho would dlo happy. Excessive clgaretto smoking had Induced consumption, which caused Haley's death.' A romnrkablo strike has Just passed Its second anniversary at Monotal., N. J. Two years ago the union employees em-ployees of a glass company there wero called out and they aro still on strlko with tho Glass Bottle-Blowers' association asso-ciation maintaining busy headquarters headquart-ers 'opposite the works. |