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Show 1 m- NEWS SUMMARY. I VI I ijlk Indications point to nn early Bottle-?! Bottle-?! I llr ' tnentof tlio Venezuelan dilllculty. ; ll'rf London exports declaro that tho pros- r, j Jfjf ont silver agitation will not benefit the Hi J ! white tnctnl. i j UK A bill lias been Introduced by Sena- I If1 tor Ilnnnn providing bounties and an- , f AL miltlcs for ox-slaves. ijr It la predicted that 100,000 farmors nl f j m 11 nations will immigrate to Canada I W during tho next year. mm Montreal street car Btrlkcra have fjfff bocomo belligerent, stoning cars and t Mt Injuring soveral persona. , ' IKw As tho result of a quarrel, Policeman IP, Grant Wulka shbt nnd killed Police- f B man Hildersat Bristol, Tnnn. s( 8 A bill has been Introduced In the i H Pennsylvania legislature to banish car- I wt , toons from Pennsylvania nowttpapors. i ft '. Mary Ann Mills, tho oldest woman n fj ' In Canada, is dead at hor homo In p K Woodham. Sho was In her 115th year. I Maine cotton spinners go on a strike, I If ' asking for higher wages and tho abol- if lshmunt of the praollco of teaching ap- ' 1 prentices. I; Turkey Is proparlng for troublo by ' M 4 engaging trunsports to convoy troops if to Macedonia, whoro a revolution It S Bjjjf threatened. ljt A noted French marquis advocates If Franco-American alllancoand assert i , I that Franco should back up tho Mon- m roe doctrine. 9 U Two thousand St. Louis trainmen F dcclaro they will go on a strike unless a raise of 20 per cent In their salaries J r Is forthcoming. Louis Mandoll, a Now York junk ; Jv K dealer, was killed by mysterious asuas- ; I sins, who crushed their victim's head K m with an Iron bar. j- mm Tho United States quarantine officials mL- have dcclured Manila to bo frco from SJ ' cholera, thus ending tho quarantine, t k which has lasted nearly a year, j Hj f President Roosovelt declines to arbl- n trato the Venezuelan matter and tho "S"1&1 CM0 w"' now K t0 Tno nuKU0- Tne Bf ' blockado will bo raised at onca. iKi Ordors have been rocolvcd at tho faOsff United States Armory at SprlngOola, "&MJL Mass., to rush tho shipment of 100,000 frfeE Krag-Jorgcnscn rifles to arsenals over mi ' tho country. Sjf A dispatch recolvcd In Paris from If H j Tangier says a special courier from & Fez has brought a rcnowed report tr at cJfl tho pretender to tho throne, Buhamara, fiw nas Dcon captured. ', mW A joint resolution has been Intro- . 'El' duccd In tho huuso by tho chairman of "lEu' tho judiciary commlttco, proposing an ' WW amondment to tho constitution, pro- jlff hlbltlng polygamy. fi l Walter Tripp attempted to kill his Hfl If former sweetheart, Nolllo Tannor, and - Kg then committed suicide at Duluth, M i Minn. Tho woman was Borlously fig wounded but will recover. S i Six hundred carpenters and joiners iW ' In tho Wyoming valloy, Pennsylvania, at nro on strlko because tho building con-TV con-TV tractors refused to grant them an in-Wt in-Wt crcaso from $2.50 to $3 a day. TTj Tho Washington Po9t publishes a m ' story to tho effect that Admiral Samp-Ifc Samp-Ifc son took treatment for paresis a year f boforo ho was put In commund of the tj I j fleet and ordered Into Cuban waters. H j'-i ' Milwaukee Dromon breathe fumes of K U ' nitric acid while fighting tiro In stamp B I. , factory with fatul results for four flro-F flro-F jl, i men; nino others aro seriously 111 jtl i through breathing tho poisonous gas. IX f While a slclghlug party of young B I I pcoplo woro crossing a streot car track I it Winona, Minn,, a car, running at H f 1 1 top spued, crashed Into tholr sleigh, njifj Tho party consisted of two mon and Jflli eight women, and all woro injured, two KHr tf them may die. KJL. Tlireo children havo mysteriously PUi'i lied In ono family at Laurior, Man. B , (Vhother death was cau9od by accl- Hgflh ' iantal poisoning or dlptherla has not Bf ft (ot been ascertained, but an lnvcstl- Hi W atlon Is being asked for Vy oltlzcns of B ' Iho town. R K ' Through a mlstako Charles Fltzglb Hfl m, bon and his wlfo aro dead at their EH ft homo In CoUimbiii, Ind. FItzglbbon HJ mmr took homo a quart of what bo W' thought was alcohol, but which later MpM& i proved to bo wood alcohol. Both HnB drank It. Hw'1 Tho houso commlttco on ponslonshas BH1 authorized a favorable report on tho IBMa. ' senate bill to Increase tho pensions of WfflfC all Mexican war veterans from $3 to iK-jBr ' (12 per month. The number ol Moxt- HHflb. can war Burvlvors on tho pension rolls llw'' ia 3,00, l The navy department Is unwilling to Hflir, allow Constructor Hobjn of Merrlmac K W fame to rotlro, oven upon resignation ; I outright. Tho reason ,'s tho pressing f need of tho construction corp for E ' tho service of just such olllcors as Mr. i Ilobson. jy( In answer to the Spanish minister's yif. offer to bnll, tho navy department has MHhl concluded to jiurchuso a certain pro- MjAPPpft portion of the heavy ordnance now In j In tho fortifications of Porto Illco, HHHHHV UlU tho property of tho Spanish gov- ft 9' KjibMirr-ei n |