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Show NIC AYS sm.MAltY ; The Tennessee house has passed n bill making It a felony to keep a plar-e where letting on borso racing Is al lowed The Intensely cold weather which lisr prevailed In Boh Hi recently baa destroyed the winter crops In several province. The coldest weather ot tha present winter I betas; experienced In western west-ern Peunsylranla, weslorn Ohio and eastern Vlrtlnla The January statement i the l.on-jou l.on-jou board of trade shows liicrewa it 115,331 000 In Imports and of til (79.000 In eapurl Troop have bn sent to Ihe copper mines In the Asdln district. Japan, wherei tbn miners made an attack upon Ihe pmpert), using dynamite freely The Texas legislature has passt-d a bill providing that a speclAl tax ol 88 000 be luseimfl ngulnat (very ex pre dltlce In ihe state handling ship iiiiiiit of liquor Mix minim were killed and twelve or more Injured In a wreck ot a con! train on the Chlcagu ft Northwestern railroad near the corporate limit ol l)e Molne, Iowa Fifteen wood cutter were over whelmed by an avalanche In the Mus cl district of the Trniiylvnnln mountains moun-tains All the mill were (lend when dug out nf the sunn Thcru I ilnngtr ot nu outbreak ot war In Central Amurlca, nlthnugh ct fort nt arbitration are being mado In thu city of Han Halvndor In thu hope of preventing hostilities The statu neiiate lit California has unanimously parsed a bill making It a crime to dock horse tails, and prohibiting pro-hibiting tho ImiKirtntlon Into the stnto nf hnra wllh ttnekmt Inlts Itoprswntatlvo Hearst has Introduced Intro-duced n bill In the house to prevent corrupt practices lu elections by making mak-ing bribery a fdonv and prescribing other safeguard for elecilon President ltonsevelt hope to visit Alaska on a hunting trip after bis presidential pres-idential term eiplres He expressed this doslru last week to Robert M Wltey, who has sprut several 3 ears In that country 11 is r polled that Count Ilonl de CnsUllniie f 10m whom hi wife, who wan .Ml Anna Oould of New York, ih cured a divorce' In thu French court last November, Is about tn apiienl to n higher court Tho body ot John Smith, a farmer living mnr Ilnven, I T, was found on Iho Sth Iln lift homo on thn Mil during a severe bllssard, and thu supposition Is that he Inst his way and wns frozen lo death Itaymuml Meyer, a schoolboy ot Urooktyn, who was Litton January 17 by a raongreh dog, died of hydrophobia hydropho-bia on the nth Thrco other children who wcro bitten by tho sumo dog havo had their wounds cauterized Soven miners nru entombed In No ID colliery or tho Lehigh & Wilkes-barre Wilkes-barre Con) comimnv at Wnnnmle, Pa , and miners acquainted with tho working work-ing of the mine say thvro is llttlo hope of reaching any ot them In tha senate committee on agrlcul turo last week an unsuccessful attempt at-tempt wns made to Insert an amend incut to the agricultural aproprla tlon bill placing tho cost of Inspection of meat products upon tbo packers. Tho npopsltlon party nro well In tho lead In tho elections In Duropcan Russia, having twenty Tour scats In parliament nssured and seventy live practically certain Iho conservatives conserva-tives havo flvo assured nnd thirty nlno probable Congressman William Alden Smith has been elected by tho legislature to fill tho unexpired term ot Senator H. A. Alger Congressman Smith had already al-ready been elected as Alger successor suc-cessor at tho expiration of his term March 4. Whllo Ignoring thu antlJnpancso feeling In n portion of tho American press, tho Japaneso public Is almost unanimous In demanding that tbo solution so-lution of U10 San Francisco school question must not Involve the labor question Tbo Urazlllan government has decided, de-cided, In order to avoid posslblo disagreeable dis-agreeable Incidents, to oxcludo negro sailor from tbo Urazlllan squadron which will visit tho United Statos. Iho opposition newspapers attacks tbo government gov-ernment for tills step In a sensational speech boforo a Nebraska Ne-braska senate committee, Senator Patrick Pat-rick accused tho brewery mid distillery distil-lery Intoresls of trying to corrupt tbo legislature nnd prevent tho passage ol unfriendly bills, ' and of raising f B0, 000 as a corruption fund Tbo Missouri aennle hns passod the bill providing that Insurance companies com-panies bo prohibited from approprlat Ing money for political purposes and from paying annual salarlea nf more than 860 000 to presidents Tho pen alty is forfeiture of license Mary a Anthony, sister of and lifelong life-long co-worker with Susan II Anthony, died at her bom In Rochester, N. Y , on the Sth Mis Anthony would havo been 80 )eHr old In April Shri bad navor been web since the doatb of ber sister eleven months ago ' |