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Show h t """news summary. Threo thousand people perished by the eruption of Snnta Maria volcano at Guatomola. Representative Cooper of Wisconsin hns introduced a bill to promote th efficiency of the Phillpplno constabu lary. It Is authoritatively stated that th Ohio miners will demand nn Incrensa of 20 cents a ton In the scnlo for pick-mined pick-mined coal. The Ohio Valley Stovo Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' association at n meeting decided de-cided to Increase tho price of stoves B per cent. The house committee on appropriations appropria-tions has agreed upon the pensions appropriation bill. It appropriates $139,847,000. Flvo KngliBh shipping firms are combining lo form a new lino of steamers to ply between Now York and tho far cast. ' At Bochuhi, Prussia, ton persons J were burned to death nnd others wen dangerously Injured ns the result of a fire which bioko out In a baker'. Captain Pershing has located what Is left of a licet of small gunboats which tho Spaniards Bank In Lake Lnnno, Island of Mindanao, In 1S98 Ur. Kills S. Duncan, who Is charged with shooting Uruco Head of Louisville Louis-ville Ky., sovernl weeks ago. was re leased from Pittsburg, Pa., Jail on $20,000 ball. Head will recover. City Marshal Felipe Haca of So corro, N. M., shot and killed David Baca, a prominent citizen, at the Windsor hotel. There hnil been trou bio of long standing bot.voen the men A bill was Introduced In tho house authorizing tho president and the uu thorltlcs of tho state of Texas to mark tho boundary linos between Oklahoma and Now Mexico and the state of Texas. Tex-as. The statistician of tho department of agriculture estimates tho nrttia' growth of cotton In tho United States In tho year 1902-03 as 10.417,000 bale -of an nvcrngo net weight of 490.7 pounds. A Panhandle work train aud a Toledo, To-ledo, Walhondlng Valley & Ohio en- , glno and cabooso collided near Co.s ' Jf ' hoctou, O. Engineer Veo of Toledo wns Instantly killed nnd seven train men hurt. Mrs. Elizabeth Mannhan, a cousin of Secretary Stanton, 1b dead in Bo-lolt. Bo-lolt. Wis., aged 87. Mrs. Manahnn was the only surviving daughter or revolutionary ofllcers In Illinois or Wisconsin. When tho president cornea to take up the question of tho succession to the vacancy caused by tho death of Minister Buck at Toklo, it la under stood that ho will namo John Barrett of Oregon. In Amstordnm a general strike ha3 been proclaimed by tho Dockers' union In conscquenco of tho lusistonco ol the dock companies m undertaking the work of a company whoso employees em-ployees nro striking. Shipments of currency by Now York lubtreasury to western and southwestern south-western points for crop moving pur poses thus far this year aggregate 118,135,000, a decrease of J804.00O compared with 1900. The Jury In tho raso of William J. Nelson, on trial In Judgo McEwon's court, Chicago, for tho murder of his wlfo. returned a verdict of guilty and J. fixing tho ilcfomlant'8 punishment ai fc imprisonment for liro. President Koosevelt Is assured thai If tho negotiations with Cuba for n reciprocity treaty nro concluded satisfactory sat-isfactory by tho stato department tho treaty will bo ratified by tho senate during tho present session. At Murshflold, Ore., Doc Engle, a gamblor, shot and killed Thomas Barker, another gambler. Mnnlln diatoms Collector Chuster rules that Chinese lodldlng In tho United StntCB may enter tho Philip-pines. Philip-pines. As n result of faithful sorvlco Ber-nard Ber-nard N. Baker, former presldont of tho Atlantic Trnnspoit company, Baltimore, Bal-timore, now a part of tho Intorna-tionnl Intorna-tionnl Mercantile Marino company, will distribute nenrly half a million dollars among his former oraployes. It Is estimated that 15,000 persons attended tho funeral, In Now York of tho rich Italian banker, Itnphaoi Bovo, known nn "Tho King or Mul-borry Mul-borry Bend." Thirty policemen woro required to preserve order In the great throng, unruly only becnuso of numbers, num-bers, y t Investigation Into the causes which " led to tho oxplosloM on tho ttenmer Progreso nt tho Fulton works, Ban l-ranclsco, by whlrh thirteen men urn supposed to havo lost their llvos and others aro badly mulmod, has sliowrt that tho quality of oil which exploded on the steamer was poor, Senator Hoar has presonted to the eeaMeeeeaea-e-ejeaaai' -'----'- - 'taafc |