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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Nestor Ponce de Ieon, a lineal descendant de-scendant of Ponee de Leon, dUeovcrer of Florida died ul Havana on Monday, aged 0 yeara. A marvelous qoartr find It reported ! from Dawson Attaya run as high at 1800 Ion It It said and the ledge It a mile In width, Senator I otter hat Introduced a bill to authorize tho leasing of landt west of the ninety-ninth meridian for grai- ing purposes, Reports reclved forthltteatonttugar crop In the Hawaiian Islands glvct the-tolel the-tolel product at tiI.M)7 tout, which it one of thu largest In yrura. It It claimed that the enlisted strength of tho nivy today It nearly 4,00(1 meu thort of the legal limit and of the necdt of the tervico Keportt from Honora Mixlco, thow I thai at the coal tlelds owned by the j! Southern Pacific railway, both coal and I liver are being extracted Chairman llurtou of the river and harbor committee authorizes the ttatt-ment ttatt-ment that there will probably be nu river and harbor bill at the present tettlon Senators Oalllnger and losUr have both Introduced bills in the tenate authorizing the apKi1ntiiientof committees com-mittees to Investigate trade conditions. : In the Orient. The entire capital stock and all the i bonds nf the Coot Hay, Rosoburg t-Puttcrn t-Puttcrn railroad, Oregon, ore now lhe properly of J D Hpreckela and llroth- f eracouipony , 1 he training thlp "Chesapeake,' the 1 flint tailing vessel built for the navy In i more than forty yeara hat Jutt coin- j plotrd n most tucect.fnl trip In Mat- I snchu.ctta bay Tho Southern Pacific company will restore the old littnlx r rate from Portland Port-land to San I runitaco bay points, j Sacramento htocktou and Han Jon, nt- ' lha first of the year Admiral Dewey hat renewed hit re-qurtt re-qurtt that the Chinese who terved with hlin during the battle of Mnulla may t be given the right to enter the United Htatet free of restrictions. 'Iho lubscrlptlon started In the Ilrltith colony In Mexico City inbehtir nf the widows and orphans, of llrlttth toldlera In the war with the lrausvual haa readied the turn ufS78O0 Senator McMillan haa Inlrodiucd a bill for the construction of n Puclllo cable from San I ruiicltco to Hawaii, j (luam and the Philippines, the routs lo bu decided by a commlttlon t The ctr shops of the Chicago, Mil- I waukee ,t St Paul railroad, tho largest N plant In I)ubuiU.l.eiwere ilealmyed" jp "by nrfaTn week I.oaa from 7S.oow YjJ lo ttoo 000 and 3U0 men will be thrown I out of employ mcuL S The trial of Kmll Zola, on charge of I having libeled M Judtt. director of 1 the Petit Journal, In aicutlug him of I using forged document. In an attack jl upon 1 rancola olo, the norellsla B father, bat adjourned for a month H Pretldent II C Hymmuiidiof Par go, E N I) , college, while ttandlng In n, 1 bookstore, at Par go tuddenly fell to I the Hoor. Death was Insttntoncout I and waa supposed to have been due to I heart failure. B Corp Frank Sample company C, S Twentieth Knniat volunteertltdctdln M Leavenworth Kan , from the cfTcctiof g t bullet wound In tha head received In 5 a battle at Sau 'louiss, I'hiltpplnci, V May 4th. K iKindon papers display much anxiety S ever lha attitude of Menellk, emperor ", of Abyssinia, toward England At present there it a dispute between thlt J potentate and Ureat llrltaln aa to tho boundary, Tk The navy department purposes to '' ask congrett fur 3I,000,OfK) to build two t llnt-clata training ships, of 3,000 tone displacement each, the venelt to be slieothed and provided with military V tall power at n ell at steam propulsion it Hugo Hunfalvy, a lawyer of New ' ork city tayi there la no possible . question that two electricians In ( hi- eogo, K P andCH larnly. aro lielrt ', to an estate In Hungary worth 0,000,000 tlorlni or about tl, 330 000 J Tha Queen hat tent a letter to Oen- '' cral Lord Uoberli the newly-appointed 5 commander lu chief of lha llrltlsti forces lu South frliu warmly tympalh . Itlng with him on the death of hit sou, j and llianklug him for the great patrl ' otltmhe hat dlipltyed In putting aside hit terrible private grief In order to de vote hlmtelf lo the attain of lha nation The poitmailer general hat tlgnrd a call for bldt for furnishing improved mall tcrvlca between Han Francisco and Hydnry, NSW, for an optional term of either five or ten yeara, beginning begin-ning November 1, 1V00 Near Ogllvle, Alaska, Mrs J Rum-ball, Rum-ball, Mra Dumbottoin, Henry Kelley and two Macnamara brothers, who had been paatengera on the wrecked learner "Stratton," hailing from Mlnneapollt, Mln-neapollt, were caught lu an Ice Jam Their boat being amall, wis crushed, ind all perished In Lincoln, Neb , at a mats meeting to express aympathy for the lloert, resolution, commending the cause of South Africa republics and condemning oppression were adopted. Governor Poynter waa one of the vice presidents. |