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Show NEWSTlIMMAftYT3 Considerable damago has boon dono by torrential rains In central Bol-glum. Bol-glum. Minister Bowon Is expected to ar " l rlvo In tho United States from Venezuela Vene-zuela within a fow dnys. Tho houso passed tho bill for tho creation of n general staff for tlio urmy by a vote of 1D3 to C2. It Is believed tho postofllco at In-dlanola, In-dlanola, Miss., will ho reopened nnd tho negro postmistress given protection. protec-tion. Tho strike at tho Guggenheim smelter smel-ter at Monterey, Mexico, has been ond-od ond-od through tho efforts of Govo'rnor Reyes. Two Indlannpolls factories, employ, lng 500 men, woro compelled to shut down last week on nccount of lack of fuel. Professor Robert Koch contends typhus can bo combatted successfully through Isolation, as cholera 1b combatted. com-batted. It now looks as though thoro would bo no legislation In favor of statehood for any of tho territories at this session ses-sion of congress. John Holllns, colored, charged with attempting to assault a whlto girl, was taken from tho train at Drow, Uss., by a mob and shot to death. II. C. Hansbrough 'of North Dakota has been unanimously chosen by tho .:,. Republican caucus to succcod himself p as United States senator. ? Corbctt has declared his willingness to nccept the offer of n San Francisco-athletic Francisco-athletic club to fight Jeffries for tho championship of the world. Threo of tho biggest coal companies In tho United States havo formed an alliance, which for nil practical purposes pur-poses will bo a combination. It is announced Informally that tho president shortly will npprovo Dr. Lyons, Ly-ons, a colored preachor of Baltimore, as United States mlnlstor to Liborla. An entlro family of four people was-wiped was-wiped out by asphyxiation In Chicago. Tho tip of n gas Jet was found lying on tho floor, and tho gas was turned on. The lnltlntlvc taken by tho business men to aid tho Bank of Venezuela in Caracas produced a good effect in tho country, nnd tlio financial situation If less strained. David Thompson, a Black Hills prospector, struck n ledge of great richness, and fell dead within ten minutes, min-utes, the Joy of tho discovery being too much for him. Tho latest advices from Fez say tho pretender has re-established his camp nt Fort Hillan, about twelve inllcs-from inllcs-from Fez, and that ho Is preparing to assume tlio offensive. Jk W Too political crisis which has bcon ' v B. prevailing In Japan has resulted In h deadlock. On December 17 tho lowor houso was suspended as n result of an B attack mado by tho opposition. B A Knnsu officer In Pckln has rt, B ceived news of a Mohammedan rising B at Chang Chla Chuan. This place la very strongly situated between the borders of Shcnsl nnd Kalnsua. H An Important convention lias boeu H signed by Chilo nnd Argentina govern- H lng tho question of disparity of their H navies, which Is regarded as definitely H terminating tho dlsputo on tho sub- H Jcct. An insurrection has broken out la H Choo Chou Shantung, as a result or H tho poverty-stricken condition of tho H people of thnt section. Several Box- Hi ors havo bcon arrested for practicing H tholr art at Nanking. B From tho tlmo of cholera's first ap- B pcaranco In Malolos, Balacnn prov- B Inco, to September 1, 1002, tho total H number ot recorded cases was 52,520, H of which 37,473 resulted fatally, tho H mortality being 71 per cent H Tho Arapahoo Indians, in tho vlcln- HJ lty of Lander, Wyo., nro in a starving P condition. Not a day passes but Hi a hand Is In tho town begging. Thoy Wk raised no crops last season, but nl- - B lowed them all to bum up, although T H they hnd plenty ot wntor, as It uooms HJ they wero too lazy to turn tho flow on Hj tho land. HJ Tho negotiations betweon tho pow- HJ ers regarding tho method of paying HJ tho Chinese indemnity aro proceeding. Hj Washington's acceptance ot tho Chi- HJ ncso proposal to pay tn sllvor dooa not H meet with tho cordial approval of HJ Europe HJ Tho locomotlvo firemen employed HJ by tho Chicago & Alton railroad havo H decided by n referendum voto to go H on a striko to enforco tho demands H prcsontud to tho officials of tlio road H December 1st for an increaso of 12V& H per cent In wnges. H Ono man was killed, half a dozen H Injured and tho women's wing of the H houso of correction partially wrecked H by the explosion ot sovoral sticks of H dynnmlto in No. 3 shaft of the new HJ filtration plant at Holmsburg, a sub- H urn of Philadelphia, BK It Is said at tho Fronch forolgn of- m flco that there are no grounds for IH the' report that Franco will Join In tho HJ Vonczuclan blockndo of tho nllles. On HL the contrary, the French officials nre i HP woll satisfied, with tho present status; T IH of tho claims of Franco, HJ j,? , Jh BBBBBBBBBBBBi2!?5-'2HHHHHHHHHHl |
