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Show NEWS SUMMARY. N Thero was a slight earthquake In tJv Guatemala City Thursday of last I'l weok, but Is caused no damago. m A rear end collision between two jfl trolley cars In Los Angeles resulted fl In tho serious injury or seven pun- H scngers. jH King Alfonso has signed decrees H ratifying tho arbitration convention H between Spain nnd Grcnt Ilrltnln nnd H Spain nnd France. A St Petersburg dispatch declares H thnt tho emperor will assume com H mand or tho troops In tho far en;t H after the first important engagement I A shooting, the result of a polltie I row, occurred nt Kansas City, Martin I Martin being fatnlly woundod by Cash I Welch, n deputy sheriff nnd ward H worker. H Mrs. Eliza Wclsche. tho wife of I Samuel Welscho, a Slavish miner, ro- I siding near Dradonvllle, Pn last I week gave birth to quadruplets. Tbej I aro all boys. I According to n dispatch from St. I Petersburg dated February 23, Gen- I oral Sakharoff had been nppolntcd to I act as minister of war In tho absence. I of General Kuropatkln. I Serious rioting between 700 Ger- jCl mans nnd 200 Czacch students oc- B currcd In VIonnn. Forty student I wore woundod. Tho police had dlffl- I culty in restoring order. President Roosovolt has fixed thi H salaries or the Isthmian canal com- I mlssloncrs at $12,000 per year, nnd I In addition thereto $15 per day whllo I they are on tho isthmus. Colonol Wlllnm Griffith, tho Los I Angeles millionaire who last Soptoru- bcr shot his wife In tho eye, hns boon sentenced to two years In tho ponlton I tlary and to pay a fino ot $5,000. H About seventy-five prominent Iowa I Democrats hold a conferenco nt Des H Moines last week nnd launched n H boom for General Nelson A. Miles for H tho Democratic nomination for presl- Hj dent. H Mrs. Itcbecca Mayo, aged 90, tho H last but ono Eiirvivlng widow of a H revolutionary war soldier. Is dead at H Nowbern, Vn. Mrs. Mnyo wns mar- H rled In 1S33 to Cnptnln Stephen Mnyo. who waB then 7G years old. HJ Shop Grlflln, a negro, is In Jail at H Meridian, Miss., having been taken H from certain persons In Kemper conn- Hj ty, who, It is chnrged, held him In H enforcod servitude. Thero Is much rAWJ excitement over tho ensc. fl A Japanese shipping agent who wna H irrested Monday on Biisplclon or sup- H plying Russians with information, has H committed suicide in tho military H orison nt Tlon TRln. It Is said several H other Japaneso aro unijor suspicion. Rather than coutnennnco In church Hj membership a man encnged In tho H Mquor business, the Rev. Edwin M H Martin, assistant pastor of tho LevIs H Avenue Congregntlonnl church in H Brooklyn, has handed In his rcslgnn- Hj tlon. Tho report comes from Germany H that Colonel Lleutwln, governor of H German southwest Africa, has asked HJ for reinforcements to the numbor of Hj 800 men and two mounted batteries. H Ho hns found the Hcrcros tn bo moro Hj numerous and hotter armod than bo H supposed. H Tho second nnntinl report of tho H United States Steel corporation, dated H March 1st, shows the net earnings H for tho year, after deducting expendl- H turcs for mnlntcnnnco and Interest on H bonds nnd fixed charges of subsidiary H companies, were $109,171,152, com- B pared with $133,30S,7G3 in 1902. A H I)y direction or the president tho H now military post under construction H at Haines, Alaska, will ho known ns H Fort William H. Seward, In momory H or tho services or tho secretary or H state in negotiating the purnhnBo of H Alaska. H Abraham Newman, nn old and H wealthy money lender and diamond H dealer, has been found dead In hl.s H ofllco on the Rower', New York City H Robbory had been committed, but whether or not It followed murder Is H a question. H Yielding to the pressure of public opinion, tho commissioner or police has prohibited colored persons, in- H eluding coolies, from using tho side- Hj walks ot Johannesburg. Tho hotter class of colored persons aro exempted Hj from tills ruling. HJ A daring and clover feat has boon HJ performed by a Japuueso woman who escaped from Dalny, by means which HJ uro still shroudod In secrecy. It Is HJ said sho secured official plans of tho HJ harbors of Dalny nnd Port Arthur, Hj taking them to Toklo. HJ As an oxamplo of the power of the HJ Japaneso "Shlipioso" powdor, a cor- respondent of the London Standard HjJ at Toklo rotates thnt n Russian oatlnr Ml who was hurt in tho naval fight oft ffi Chomulpo ami taken to Matsuyauin. Hj Japan, lias 1C0 wounds. Be Tho Prcsbytorlan board ot foreign missions has received by cablo con- HJ Urination of tbo news ot the murder Hj of tuo Rev. Denjamln W. LaDarro, near Ktioi, PorMn. Ho wns tbo son Hj of tbo Rov. Dr. Ronjamln LnUarru, Hj also a mlusioncry In Persia. H |