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Show NEWS SUMMARY"" Mall advices from tho new Alaska ' district of Tanana Indicate that the- wlntor gold clean-up will probably- reach 1,000,000. A hurrlcano has caused consider-ablcd consider-ablcd amagc to property at Montevideo, Monte-video, Uruguay. Sovcral vessels were-driven were-driven ashoro In tho harbor. In the Imperial Medical academy at St Petersburg, a phort coarse of conversational con-versational Japanese has been Introduced Intro-duced for tho bonoflt ot tho Japanese wounded prisoners. Tho Moscow Gazette publishes a-historical a-historical rovlow of the Russo-Amcrl-con relations, concluding: "Henceforth "Hence-forth tho Americans will bo styled the-ungrateful the-ungrateful Yankees." A Washington dispatch says that formor Socrctary of War Ellhu noot has been agreed upon as temporary chairman of tho national Republican convention at Chicago. Louis Drolct of SL Rocho, Canada, who was knocked out In the sixteenth round of his bout with George Wagner, Wag-ner, the champion soldier boxer, la dead from his Injuries. ' Many Greek naval officers, belonging belong-ing to tho aristocracy, are applying for permission to join tho Russian forces In tho far caBt, and Greek physicians phy-sicians aro also volunteorlng for the v same purpose. Tho cases of W. S. Taylor, John Powers and Charles Fluley, charged with complicity In tho murder of William Wil-liam Gocbcl, were called In tbo circuit court at Frankfort, Ky., last week and passed to tho next term. Tho best Informed military circles no longer anticipate a Jnpancso landing land-ing nt tho head of the Llao Tung gulf. They believe tho Jnpanoso have missed their opportunity, the Russians Rus-sians being now too strong. In a feud fight In Now York City, Sunday, threo brothers, Thomas, William Wil-liam and Michael GUbrldgo, wcro seriously, seri-ously, If not fatally stabbed, and Harry and John McShnno, also brothers, broth-ers, woro badly wounded. With bands playing "The Star Spnnglod Banner" and "Dixie," and 30,000 peoplo cheering Godspeed, tho battleship Virginia was launched on the 6th at tho yards of tho Newport News Shipbuilding company. Tbo cotton goods curtailment movement move-ment In Fall Rlvor, Mass., has extended extend-ed and 16,000 operatives nro Idle. The total number or Bplndles stopped is 1,-669,888 1,-669,888 moro than' hair or the number num-ber of tho Fall River cotton mills. . The census bureau has Issued a bul- r letln which gives tho estimated population popu-lation of tho United States for 1903, exclusive of Alaska and tho Insular possessions, at 79,900,389. This Is an increase of 2,059,014 sinco the consus of 1900. A cablo from Manila says tho drafting draft-ing of tho proposed measures to secure se-cure Internal revenuo havo been completed com-pleted nnd published. Tho mensures aro opposed weakly by tho dlstilUjur nnd tobacco growing Interests In tho islands. Four wealthy Chinese boys sent to Vancouver, B. C, from China to bo educated under tho auspices of the years' Imprisonment and to pny a fine Chinese reform association, have been drowned on Burrard Inlet. They wont out In a small boat on a pleasure trip. V , Standing In front of a mirror In tho Grand hotol, with nn Easter Illy nnd a crucifix In ono band and a rovolvor In tho othor, Mrs. E. B. Hunter, wife of a prominent retired merchant of MomphlB, Tenn., shot horself In tbo tomplo nnd died beforo holp roachod hor. Tho full text of tho Anglo-Fronch treaty has been published. Ono clause or tho treaty pledges tho Fronch government gov-ernment to commuulcato to Groat Britain nuy agreement entered Into botween Franco nnd Spain on tho subject sub-ject of Morocco. Judge Spear In tho federal court at Savannah, Ga., sentenced Harry Olson, Ol-son, a well known rltlzon, to flvo of 16,000, tho limit. Ho was found guilty of kidnaping one of eight negroes ne-groes deported rrom Savannah on the Russian bark Alice Bristol. A dispatch rrom St. Petersburg says the fighting In Tibet has rovivod irritation irri-tation throughout Russia. Tho British expedition Is considered to bo a hos-tllo hos-tllo act against Russia, which cannot permit Great Britain to become mistress mis-tress or tho Tibetan capital. The second Japanese army, according accord-ing to tho St. Petersburg correspondent correspond-ent of tho Paris Temps, Is now land- , Ing In Korea. Extenslvo army maneuvers, ma-neuvers, tho correspondent adds, are bolng organlzod for Finland, whoro n largo force or reserves Is cantouod. Minister Congor at Pekln cables the stato department thnt Mr. Miller, tho United States consul nt Now Chunng, has been notified by tho Russian authorities au-thorities that mines havo beon plnced f In tho river, hut Hint neutral ships will bo conducted In and out in safety, Loo Spanglor, a piospnrous grocor of York, Pa., who styles himself "The Last Prophet," and who for twolvo years has beon predicting tho rnd of tho world In 19CS, announces that within twelve months all Europe will be fighting, and tho United States, too. |