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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The prcsldont has signed the army appropriation bill. Important oil discoveries have keen mado on the international line near Ileto, Arizona. Tho report comes from Brlcg, Switzerland, Switz-erland, that thirteen people woro killed by an avalanche. A report Is current that tho Japanese have landed 20,000 troops at Kin Chau. nbovo Port Arthur. Tho Peruvian cabinet has rosigned, but It Is not expected that the resignation resig-nation will bo accopted. Thoro Is a shortage of Chlneso labor in the British Columbia market, aw-Ing aw-Ing to the heavy tax Imposed upon Immigrants. Im-migrants. Threo firemen were killed and six-tcon six-tcon others Injured In a flro in Newark, New-ark, N. J., tho walls of a building1 falling fall-ing on them. Negotiations for a conjoint declaration declara-tion of neutrality by Norway, Swedon nnd Denmark havo reached a satisfactory satis-factory conclusion. Tho first participation by the women wo-men of Iceland In an international movement will bo nt tho Louisiana Purchase exposition. Robbers entered the bank at Iola, jt Wis., wrecking the vault, Bafe and building with nltTO-glycorlnc. They fled with $1,200, overlooking $9,000. A dispatch from Warsaw says It ia reported that eighteen conspirators havo been hanged, after their trial in connection with a Polish revolutionary plot. Frederick V. Mnrtln, tho Indian commissioner com-missioner of Irrigation for Porto Rico, killed himself by cutting his throat He brooded over private financial mat-tors. mat-tors. Tho United States government has had no official Information of tho tales persistently reported from Europe of American ships to either Russia or Japan. Tho German rclchstag voted $100,-000 $100,-000 for the assistance of the Germaa. settlers in Germnn Southwest Africa who have suffered through the Heroro-uprising. Heroro-uprising. Tho statement that Professor Ivan-off Ivan-off of tho Moscow university bad beon assassinated by Terrorists for treachery treach-ery to tho organization, Is officially declared false. "Lord" Frederick Seymour Barring-ton Barring-ton has been sentenced to death for i killing, noar St. Louis, James McCann. "f ' When sentence was pronounced Bar-rlngton Bar-rlngton almost collapsed. , Russians nt Tientsin do not bollovo that tho recent resignation of Admiral Aloxleff as viceroy of tho emperor In tho far east will bo accepted by tho St Petersburg authorities. The pension bill, carrying an appropriation ap-propriation of moro than $137,000,000, and tho emergoncy river and harbor appropriation bill, which carries $3,-000,000, $3,-000,000, havo passed tho senate. According to tho department of concessions of tho World's Fair, it will cost $20 for tho total admission to all tho attractions on tho pike. The total cost for tho Chicago midway was $35. A dispatch from Buda Pest saya the strlko of railway employos has caused much wholesalo Inconvcnlcnco and it Is considered doubtful tf the government govern-ment will bo nblo to force the men Into submission. Six hundred potteries workmen employed em-ployed in the plants of the Acme pottery and the Crooksville China company at Crooksville, Ohio, hava gono out on strike for maintenance , of the union scalo. ,L The European Economist says, under un-der the reservo that Russia Is negotiating nego-tiating with the principal Frenca bankB for a loan of $150,000,000 on B rr cent four-year treasury bonds, to be placed at 98. Tho statement is not vorlfled. The total loss by tho fire which destroyed de-stroyed the wholesalo district of Toronto, To-ronto, Ont, will, according to tho most conservative cstlmato, roach $12,000,000; the total Insurance is $8,-.ICO.OOO. $8,-.ICO.OOO. Tho area swept by fire embraced em-braced 14 acres. Not a whcol Is turning In the big plant of tho Glucoso Roflnlng company nt Peoria, 111., tho 800 employes having gono n strike. The men assort the company promised an Increased wage scalo, cffcctlvo April 1, but has not yot put It In forco. Tho plans for the now Bollovue ho pltal in Now York City hnve boon mnde public. Thoy provide for the largest hospital In tho world. It win bo constructed of brick ond stone, will bo fireproof, and will accommodate accommo-date 2,500 patients. The federal ministry of Australia B has roslgnod. Tho resignation was jfl due to its dofoat in tho house of rep- H resontatlvcs on a labor party amend- j)H mont making the bill' providing for I the arbitration of lubor disputes ap- H pllcablo to state employees. H Robort R. Roosevelt, an uncle of S Prvsldent Roouovelt, who was noroi- jfl natod us an doctor by the Domocratlo jfl state convention nt Albany, N. Y. HJ last woek, has declined to accept H such nomination bocnuse of his re H latlonshlp to tho president |