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Show r NEWS SUMMARY. t Tho plague has appcarod at Pro-sorla. Pro-sorla. . I Seven hundred bindery girls hav f gono on a strlko In Chicago. Tho sultan of Snlu has ncccptcd tho abrogation of the Dates treaty. Tho president has detcrmlmd that . tho Panama canal commission shall b attached to tho war department Space originally allotod to Russia for a national pavilion nt tho World' fair, has been awarded to Holland. Senator Gibson has introdiicod a bill to repeal tho desert land net and tho commutation provision of th homestead act A report from Vladivostok says) that mlno has boon discovered tinder tho fortress, with wires lending to a Chinese Chi-nese houso In the town. Flro at Qulncy, Ills., In tho Hotel Nowcomb, resulted In tho death of Roso McDonald, onco an actress, and Antoinette Dronlskl, n waiter. Eighteen Minneapolis flour mills, owing to tho poor condition of tho flour trado, have shut down Indefinite ly. A thousand people aro out of work. Tho maritime customs returns for 1903 show a great development In tho Import of cotton fabrics from Japan at tho expense of tho Anglo-Amorlcan , trado. f Tho negotiations for an Anglo-French Anglo-French colonial treaty aro progressing satisfactorily, but tho offlcors aro un-ablo un-ablo to say Just when It will bo ready to bo signed. Daraago amounting to thousands ot dollars was dono In Christiana county, Kentucky, by a windstorm. Many buildings wero unroofed and two negroes ne-groes killed. Major Zoph I. Hill, military commander, com-mander, has given Instructions for tho confiscation of firearms In Las Animas county, Colorado, and honso-to-houBo raids havo begun. Tho London Standard's correspondent correspond-ent at Seoul says that slnco tho fight at Chemulpo over 7,000 Japaneso adventurers ad-venturers havo nrrlved at Seoul In search of employment. Tho Second battalion of Panamalan troops on tho Isthmus has been disbanded, dis-banded, leaving ono battalion undor the colors, and the vessols forming tho Panamalan navy aro offered for salo. John Kay, 10 years old, Is under ar- rcBt for tho murder of William Splttal, a hunter and trapper, found dead in his cabin ucar Vancouver, D. C, with two bullet holes lu tho back of his head. Jf According to a dispatch received at ) Hamburg, thero wore ninety killed, Including thirteen white persons. In tho tornndo that caused ruin throughout through-out the Island of Reunion March 21st and 22nd. Telegrams from Santiago do Cuba 1 report that all tho members of the provisional pro-visional electoral .board of scrutiny have been arrested on tho chargo of falsifying tho results of elections for congressmen. Thoro Is much discussion in diplomatic diplo-matic circles, says a St. Petersburg dispatch, ovor the Intimation that Great Britain, through the new French oatonto, Is seeking to composo her I differences with Russln. Although President Roosovolt can I not attend tho opening exercises ol tht Louisiana Purcnase Exposition, ho has consented to press a button at tho Whlto Houso which will start tho machinery ma-chinery of tho cxiKisltlon. In order to provide for tho requirements require-ments of the army of occupation, tho Japanese authorities havo docldod to extend tho fishery concessions In tho Korean provinces of Hwang, Hal, Chi-yung Chi-yung Chyong and Ping Ynng. , A spoclal from Nome tolls of thn enpturo thero of a wild mail of barbarous barbar-ous appearance, totally unnblo or unwilling un-willing to glvo nn account of himself Ho Is commonly believed to ho an escaped es-caped Russian exile from Siberia, Threo out of thirteen Korcuns, formerly for-merly military students In Japan, nc-cused nc-cused of conspiring against tho llfo of tho emperor and crown prlnco, for tho purpose of enthroning Prlnco Eul Wha, havo been executed at Seoul. Tho hoiiBo cornmlttco on npproprin- tlons has completed tho sundry appropriation appro-priation bill and reported It to the houso. Tho bill cnrrles a total of $55,-C23.O01, $55,-C23.O01, which Is $28,890,208 less than tho appropriation of tho current year In consrquonco of n speech Insulting King Edward, tho Australian government govern-ment has refused the uso ot public buildings to John Aloxandor Dowlo. Thu Mayor of Adolaldo wroto to Dowlu tolling him ho was a disgrace to tho nationality. Forty masked men, mnny of them carrying nhotguns, broko Into tho Jail at St. Clair. Mo., and, securing Winn Dnvis, arrested on tho chargo of high-woy high-woy robbery, took him from tho Jail, . whipped him nenrly to death nnd then turned him looso. Govornor Carter of Hawnll has called an extra session of the legislature legisla-ture to meet April 4 th, to consider tho finances of tho tronsury, which It unable to moot tho warrants drawn upon It. Appropriations exceed In-I In-I oomo by $1,500,000. t |