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Show HEWS sniMARY. The volcano of Asamayana nas lr. frnpllon last month and lava fell on the adjacent vlllsir, The Chloeae n-ec plelntnllrles have agreed lo the demands of the powers for ri-weior lo be used for legation site In l'ln According to l-ono-"" correspondent disquieting rnomr are again prevalent In that city with regard lo the health of J. l'lerpnnl Morgan. Oen HuMiell A Alger, formor Secretary Secre-tary of War. Mm. Alger nnd Huasell Alger. Jr. have aallol for Europe, to be gone about three month. A party of ofllcer from the llrltlsli transport Atlantlsn. while bathing In Colombian harbor, were attacked by a ahark, which killed II. Lowrle. InSan Francisco courts Judge Troult ha continued until June Bill the contest, con-test, of Charles L Fair, to the will of hla father, the 11 Jsmea O. Fair. . The Federal tlovernmeutof Australia la urging upon the Imperial authorltlea the dealrablllty of obtaining for the Jtrltl.h crown possession of Kerguelena Island. ilrltlsh reinforcements are still going go-ing to the Cape from Southampton. Tho nar office Is not suspending sc- tlve prepsrstlons for a continuance of the nar. Oen. Daniel F Sickles Is nllllng to be elected commander-ln-ehlef of tho Orsnd Army ot the llepublfe at the national encsnpmcnt to be held In Cleveland. To handle the large surplus of nheel the millers uf New South Wales sre forming a combine and will maintain export commercial agents In London snd elsewhere It la said that by July 1st a central clvf. government will be established In Manila, nlth Judge Taft as governor and a leglslstive council, composed of Americans snd Filipinos. Drs Moore of Sksgusy and Ltnhsrt 7 ot Juneau have been Investigating the t smsllpox epidemic at Sitka, and tho former ssys there Is no doubt ot tho 1 prevalence of the disease. An unconBrmrd report has been re j celved from llosemesd, South Africa, 1 that General llenct with a small com- j mando and a long torn, has crossed In- ' to Zuruburg district of Cape Colony, 'J Tho navy department has aont or- dera to Uear-Admlral KeinplI to send , J homo the ships Coueord, .Marietta and i ' Castlno from tho Asiatic atatlon dur- t Ing the latter part ot the coming sum- j mer. I ,'JTake care.of the forests." says a J Tennessee piper In announcing that a out of a slnfle tree In Dyer county a JS ' olllstu fi,l got four corJauf llrenood, y - three gallons of honey and lira roc- t J coons. j Admiral Walker, chairman of the Isthmian Canal commission, has re I turned to Washington to prepare hla final report on tho engineering feasibility feasi-bility of a ship canal across Central America. J It Is ofllclally announced that the llungsrlsn wheat and rye crops are ej medium, and that barley Is medium, ' except In the Intermouutatn districts. The crops gcuerally require mild ' ' weather nnd rain. . The Dominion government ha decided de-cided to giro a bonus of 93 per ton on f Canadian refined lead to and not exceeding ex-ceeding 1100,000 In nny one year. Tho bonus will be available In the same nay ss the Iron bounties. From Information In possession of Seattle authorities It Is bclloved thul Felix Johnsou, who committed sulcldo by morphine poisoning In that city re cenlly, Is a brother of ex-Oovernor Johnson of Alabama. The steamship "Northwestern, "from Chicago lo Liverpool, which collided with a dredge below the Osloup rapids snd rsn her bow nearly twenty-Are feet upon the bank, has been floated, sustaining very slight InJuryT CapL Murray, Lieut. 1 leech er and Messrs. llereher, Lorlng und Harvey of the Guam eurvey hoard, returning from the American Island, nhcre they havu been engaged on Government ' aurrey work, have arrived at Victoria, B. C. The Philippine commission ha accomplished ac-complished n great amount ot Import ant work In the southern Islands, where the Insurrection la almost forgotten, for-gotten, trado la being developed and the people prepared for civil govern menL The revolt In the provinces of Moor, snd Lavcgn, Ban Domingo, has proved a failure Th, opcratlona of Govern ment troops, led by Vlce-Fresldent Yasquer, havo been successful, and tho rebel leaders have been mado prisoners Owning to tho fact that the German coal merchants are rasing prices, the Swiss railways and manufactories have accepted an offer of the llockcfeller Coal company, to supply coal at th price at which the Germans formerly supplied IL B The naval board finds wireless teleg rsphy feasible and recommends lis adoption In thl navy, and that the use ol carrier plgeooa bo abandoned. It . advises that technical In.lructloua In ,J. wireless telegraphy be given at tb ,t I "vy yan.. s( Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa |