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Show NEWS SUMMARY. George Allen, a Hoanum., was elrcV pv ' trocuted at Stockton, Cal Friday. ',, JameB P. Treadwell of Pittsburg, Pa., shot his wlfo at Pasadena, Cul., Friday nnd then committed suicide. i American anthracite coul Imported-, J at Hamburg lust wluter Is being re-' jl bought for shipment to the United j Btutcs. Communder-ln-Clilef Stewart of the $ Orand Army has reappolulud Quarter- i, master Gencrul Charles Ilurrows of jj New Jersey. V King lid ward Is reported to be tak- 1 Ing nn active Interest In the educa- ? llonnl bill and in ecclesiastical ap- j polnlmcnts Tho thirty-first anniversary of the big firo In Chicago, wus observed Thursduy of last week by banquets . snd speecheB. At Whatcom, Wash., dry kilns of Loggle llrothers' mill burned Friday, tntutllng a loss of 25,000. There Is 10,000 insurance. The New Mexico Republican Territorial Terri-torial convention nominated Ilernard B. Itodney to succeed himself us dele- gate to congress. In Lexington, Mo., the electric light plant and Hoffman's brewery and several dwellings were destroyed by . fire. Loss, $100,000. King Oscar has bestowed the grand S cross of St. Olaf on Captain Sverdrup, f? the Arctic explorer, and has given him su annual allowance of S810. ' Ilollvians have put to death four Ilruzllians at Puerto AtoiPzo, They also al-so have arrested many other Brazilians Brazil-ians and are holding them as hostages. Six hundred thousand dollars In the treasury, half of which is gold bullion bul-lion consigned to Japan, was carried to the Orient by the steumcr Nippon. Muu. Secretary Moody has decided to havo the floating dry dock at Havana trans- , ported to the I'ensacola nary ynrd as toon as it can be mude ready for tho voyage. Hear Admiral George W; Melville, englnecr-in-chlcf of thu United States navy, who was stricken with intermittent intermit-tent fever about ten days ago, has recovered. re-covered. Luther T. Ellsworth, United States consul at Puerto Cabello, cables to the state department that all communication communica-tion with tho Interior of Venezuela t has been cut off. The Mexican government has ordered : out a military force to guard trains and stations on that portion of the National Na-tional road at present affected by a strike of employes. Preliminary plans have been re- ceived from Chicago for nine and two- i Ij thirds miles of intramural railway - 'I which will carry visitors around tht I world's fair grounds. f At Emporia, Kansas, last week, j James Pendleton, mayor of Gentry, I Mo., convicted of bigamy, was sen- I tenced to five years in the penitentiary, I the extreme penalty. j The mysterv surrounding the dls- appearance from Sioux City, la., last Friday of Mrs. T. F. Hurus.a musician, j has been solved by the finding of her ! body In the Sioux river. (5 It is reported thut the Japanese gov- u eminent, within the next six years, ; will build four battleships, six first i class cruisers und various lesser craft, j bt a cost of 800,000,000, The Mercantile Trust company Jot ; New York, announces that It is fur- ' nlshlng$:s,000,000 to David Moffat ; and associates, of Denver, to build the Moffat road from Denver to Salt Lake. Tho entire silk curgo of the Tartar arrived at Vancouver, II. C, was valued at approximately S3, 000,000. The Tartar brought A30 tons of raw silk and other silk in a manufactured gtalc. Charles M, Schwab, president of lh8 United States Steel corporation, hat chartered Anthony J, Drexel's steam yacht, the Margarita, and will spend part of the winter cruising ou the aw,-Mediterranean. aw,-Mediterranean. fy Tho Kosmos line steamer Kurabyses la u wreck on Guiuos Point, on the coast of Costa Idea. The vessel left San Frauclbco September 15th, bound for Hamburg, She was the finest vessel ves-sel on the line. Count Eugene Es',erhazy has created ! a sensation by retiring from the ouler ! of Jesuits and commencing legal pro- i ceedlngs to recover his fortune of ! $175,000 which he gave to tho society onjoinlng it lu 1885. j Oil cannot compete with coal for naval use. At least that is the con. ' elusion reached by tho board of naval engineers, which for many weeks past hus been making a scries of practlcul tests witli various oil burners. East side, Now York, confectionery manufacturers aro supplying cucoanut shells to tenement dwellers for fuel, Tlie shells ure sold in bugs of fifty to slx'.y pouuds for 10 or 15 cents u bug, The material furnishes more heut thuu coal, I The corner- stone of the proposed memoilat bridge ucrcss tho Potomaa to connect Washington with Arlington cemetery was dedicated it a big open- d)if V vlr meetlcg In the White House lot - U Thursday afternoon, The ston wcif ks ssven tons. i |
