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Show NEWS SluMMAllY." Cool weather 13 cnuslng n cossatlon of the yellow fever epidemic In Texan. A child wns found frozen to death near Newport, Ky., during tho storm on the lSth. It la said Colombia Is prepailng for war "to wlpo out tho Indignity Imposed Im-posed by Panama." Chicago street car men nro Rtlll negotiating ne-gotiating for peace, and 11 settlement may bo renched at any time. It has been dlscovorod that a 11-year-old boy of Koknmo, Ind., has bcon running a matrluionlnl bureau. Negotiation of a treaty of pcaco between be-tween tho robo'.s and tho government of President Wos y (3111 of San Domingo Do-mingo has begun. It Is reported that olghty or moro boot and cano sugar factories In Spain, all oxcept two or three, havo just boon merged In a sugar trust. Tho roport of tho labor commission cstimatos the shortage of laborers at 241,000, of which 10,000 are neoded In tho mining Industry alono. Tho potato crop of England Is a fall-uro fall-uro this year, and English buyers aro already scouring tho contlnont to supply sup-ply tho threatened deficiency. Tho tallost boy In Indiana Is dead. William II. Kcpllngcr, aged 17, and standing G feet 3 Inches, succumbing to brain fovor at Alexandria, Ind., on Sunday. , Proof hns been secured that Saturday's Satur-day's explosion at Cripple Creel:, which killed ten men, wns a diabolical plot, carefully and deliberately planned. Tho Oregon legislature will hold a special session to rnlso monoy for defraying de-fraying public expenses for which thero Is no fund, owing to a dofect In tho tax laws. Samuel Gompers has been olectod president of tho American Fcdcrntlon of Labor by a large majority, nnd San PrnnrlRpn nolnrlnH ns tlin Titnro fnr holding the next mooting. Charles Wright, aged 19, has confessed con-fessed that ho wrote tho letters threatening threat-ening to blow up tho Plaza hotel In Chicago unlo-s tho management placed $500 at a point ho Indicated. A tablo just Issued shows that 3,051 portions, wero killed and 45,077 Injured on railroads during tho year ended Juno 30, During the previous year. 2,819 wero killed and 39,800 Injured. James Dunn, a saloonkeeper of Sioux City, Iowa, shot and perhaps fatally wounded his young wlfo bo-cnuso bo-cnuso sho refused to Uyo with him, and then shot hlmuolf, dying almost Immediately. Matthow Nelson, colored, after a quarrel with his sweetheart, Tllllo Moore, also colored, shot and Instantly killed her on tho strootB of Bloom-Ington, Bloom-Ington, 111., and then shot himself, dying Instnntly. Advlcos recclvod hero from Lloyd-minster, Lloyd-minster, N. W. T., declare that tho Barr colony, composed of 130 Immigrants Immi-grants from London and environs, Is In dnngor of serious disaster becauso of lack of food. Burglars entered tho homo of John Shlppoy, a lumber merchant, Sundny night, and attempted to cut off tho fln-gors fln-gors of his daughter Edith to secure her diamond rings. The girl's screams caused tho burglars to flco. Tho uso of Flnscn rays for tho euro of consumption Is claimed to have worked throo euros that aro pronounced pro-nounced permanent, nnd further experiments ex-periments are said to show tho beneficial ben-eficial offocts of tho treatment. Tho body of an unknown man, well-drossod, well-drossod, was found In a burning box car attached to a Great Western train at Hayflold, Iowa. Tho man Is bo-llovod bo-llovod to havo boon murdered and tho car flred to hide tho crlmo. A chemist named Bolchlor, with two companions, members of woll known families, made a balloon ascon-'slon ascon-'slon from Oporto, Sunday. After reaching a considerable height, tho balloon was carried to sea, and It la fenred that Its occupants woro drowned. The National Grango, In sosslon at Rochester, N. Y olectod Aaron Jonos of Indlnnn natlonnl worthy mastor and J. N. Nowcomb of Goltlon, Colo., stow-ard. stow-ard. Tho resolution favoring woman suffrngo offered was adopted after a long discussion. Itopresentntlvo nichnrdson of Ton-nossoo Ton-nossoo has Introduced a bill to plnco all trust-mado articles on tho free lfst and to reduco tho rato of duty on all articles manufactured In the United States and sold moro cheaply abroad than In this country. Honrl Bochofort Is quoted as raying ray-ing that ho understands that Droyfus will bo retried beforo tho court of cassation, cas-sation, which, ho predicts, wlll"quash tho verdict of tho Itonnes court martial, mar-tial, and that Dreyfus will then bo rehabilitated re-habilitated In his rights. The revolt In tho valayot of Yemon, Arabia, Is oxtondod southwest. The Ottoman troops ndvanclng on Hodnlda woro dotormlnedly opposed by tho revolted re-volted tribes and woro forced to retreat. re-treat. Another attempt to ndvanco , from Mokha fallod, U10 Troklsh troops being defeated. |