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Show NEWS SUmiARYr" I Nine persons are dead as the result I of an explosion In the squib factory Hi at Prlceburg, Pa. Hf In tlmo of peace the Japanese army, ' B consisting of 421,000 men, costs but H $18,500,000 a year. A number or buildings were shnkon, H down at Manzanlllo, Mexico, as the- H result of an earthquake. H RuBBla haB tho largest number of H soldiers and rcservos of any country H on earth except Germany. H Fourteen thousand miners are on. I strlko in Iowa as a result of refusal H ot the operators to Increase wages. H Four American warships have arrived ar-rived at Panama. Qno or more of the-vessels the-vessels will remain thero Indefinitely. The statement Is mado that Senator Gorman will not be a candidate foi the Democratic presidential nomination. nomina-tion. A quarry blast cxploslor near Richmond, Rich-mond, Va., resulted In tho death of throe men and the serious Injury ot two others. This is tho fourth tlmo Japan has mado war on a foreign nation, oxcept for early barbaric expeditions against the Koreans. Sonntor Clark of Wyoming has Introduced In-troduced u bill providing for a right of way for Irrigation on the public A lands and reservations. " Martini law practically prevails In tho department of tho Nord, France, owing to the menacing attitude of the striking textile workers. The correspondent ot tho Matin at Toklo reports that tho Korean governor gov-ernor of Cheng-Wu haB established his ofDco under Japanese protection. Representative Williams of Mississippi Missis-sippi has Introduced a hill providing that tariff duties on any article shall not amount to more than 500 per cent advalorem. Hcrr Dufay, tho German vice-consul at Balta, has been murdered by an Itnllan beggar, who was arrested. The motive or tho murder Is said to have been revenge. Thomas Danforth of McKeosport, Pa., after losing $200 In a poker game, wont bofore a notary public and took an oath not to play poker again for ninety-nine years. A dispatch from Kata Raja, Island of Sumatra, announces that In an engagement en-gagement between Dutch troops and Achlncse, tho former lost threo men, while 511 Achlneso were killed. Both houses of the legislature havo passed a bill authorizing the payment . by the stato of New York of a pension of $72 per month to Hiram Crank, the last survivor of tho war of 1812. 1 Tho commandant at Vladivostok H has published an order In the Russian, I Chlneso and Korean languages to tho m effect that ho will sink any vosboI at- tempting to enter tho port at night. An oxploslon in the Citizens' Nn tlonal bank building at Albla, Iowa, resulted In R. Ramsey, Edward Dougherty Dough-erty and Richard Grimes bolng killed. The explosion Is supposed to have been In the heating plant. Postmaster General Payne's condition condi-tion hnB Improved sufficiently to por-mlt por-mlt him to como downstairs. Preparations Prepara-tions aro making 'for tho postmaster general's southern trip, on which ho expects to start this week. The survivors of tho Varlag and Korletz, which vessels wero destroyed In Chemulpo harbor, arrived at Scbas-topol Scbas-topol Sunday, and received ovations as enthusiastic as thoso with which they woro greeted at Odessa. Detectives working on tho case say that tho bandits who held up tho Oregon Ore-gon Express at Copley, Cal., and killed ' Messenger O'Nell wero the samo mon ' who held up fifteen men In Davo Endl-cott'B Endl-cott'B saloon at Kennet, Cal., on March 20th. Tho Illinois miners and operators havo signed the stato agreomout, of-fectlvo of-fectlvo for two years. When tho joint convention met Sunday Uicro was not ono dissenting voto against tho agreement agree-ment rcachod by tho Joint scnlp com-mltteo. com-mltteo. A correspondent, cabling from Seoul, says It has been learnod thoro that tho Russian cavalry, In much dls tresB, is ro'irlng toward Mlju. They aro cutting down telegraph poloa to ubo as fuol nnd their horses aro dying for lack of proper food. The mint at San Francisco during the month of March broke all records for gold coinage slnco tho use of money mon-ey began In civilization. Tho amount coined during tho month reached thu enormous sum of $33,113,600, an ager- . ago of more than $1,000,000 a day. It is announced by tho local committee com-mittee In chnrgo ol tho arrangements for tho national Democratic convention, conven-tion, which will be hold In St. LoiiIh, beginning July Cth, that, tho $40,000 pledged to tho national commltteo bus . , been subset ibed by business men. M The North German Gazotte, a government gov-ernment organ, ileu.es tho rumorrt printed In London and circulated In tho United States that tho health ot ' Emperor William Is such that It gives occasion for coneern. The paper add that tho emperor's health remains ox ceilont. |
