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Show attt yErs summaiiyT At tlio closoof tlie year 18M the laJebtetliicssodlaTrinn was91!.OO,O0f Tlio New tlnlnen IcglslntU council has decided lo restrict Clilncso lmm! grntlon 1 The men o( l'orto Klco ro not relj rIous. Only tho women nnil clilMrcP ntlond church 1 Tho clell irorcrnorshlii of .Tnmalen II lo b Miollshril, as Is also tho oOlcool colonial secretary. f Had wntcr la causing terrible mor; tallty among tho Itusalan troops aj Port Arthur Arorago deaths, fouf dally. Tour men were badly burned, one probably fatally, by Iho explosion of a boiler In the bascmcut of tho Chicago Tribune. Something like an expenditure ol ten to twenty millions of dollar will bo necessary to made an Ideal city ol Ilaraua. Admiral Montejo, who waa defeated by Admiral Doweytvt Carl to, will bo tried for tho Incompetent condition of hla fleet. President Mar. has appointed I'msn-ucl I'msn-ucl Asplras, aaatstnnt secretary of foreign for-eign rclatloua, to bo embassador to Waahlogton Itosa lnry nnd Andrew Orlswold, farmers from UUI county, wcro burned to death In the) Commercial hotel at Illllaboro, Texas. Tho bulletin of tho American Iron and Btccl association says tho total production of pig Iron In 1909 waa 11,-773,031 11,-773,031 gross tons. It is reported In Madrid that the court-martial will exonernto General Toral on tho ground that he acted under auperlor Instructions. Tho military government of l'orto Illoo la thorough and Retire. The wholo Island la cfTcctltrcly patrolled, nnd quiet and order pruralla In every quarter. White the l'orto Itlcans do not offer tho lcaat reslstenco to tho military administration, they inako no secret of tho fact that they do not desire its continuance. General Leo has practically decided to moTo a, full brlgado from tta present camp near Havana to the hills of Can-dcla, Can-dcla, close to Uulnca. Tho location la unusually healthy. Tho report of thodlsnppearanco altogether alto-gether of Metis Island from the chart is confirmed. This Island In 1960 naa ISO feet high, and there Is no sign of It now beyond a reef. Another carthqualio waa felt In tho district of Kyparlasa on tho gulf of Arcnndla recently, a number of hoam falllug Tho Inhabitants of tho region aro panlc-strlekcn. I'opo Leo, according to tho Home correspondent of tho London Dally Chronicle, contemplates a unlnr.nl jubilee In 1900 to mark tho opening of the twentieth century, Iteporta from Juneau say that a new lako haa been discovered a abort distance dis-tance In tlio Interior from Lynn canal. It has been named Walker lake, after It. dl.r.wr.rrT fl W. Walker On tho question of declaring vacant scats held by congrcaamin holding out aldoolllcia, fourteen of tho seventeen members of tho Judiciary committee virtually favor declaring thise scats vacant. Whllu Mr. nnd Mrs. Thomas Mslley, living on Ccdnr creek in Newton county, Mo., wcro at church their three small children, whom they had left locked In the houso at home, were burned to death. Tho newly organized American lleet. Sugar company, it la announced, will have n capital of 81,000,000 preferred stock and 113,000,000 In common stock. It will operate In tho territory nest of the Mississippi river. Theo Klrehner, aged 00 years, shot and Instantly killed hla wife, t'anllna, agcd43)oara. In their houso at New tonvllle, near Albany, N. Y , by the careless handling of a gun, which was accldcntly dlacharg:d. The San Ilmno hotel at San Fran. Cisco waa burned and an aged cripple met death In the flames. Au eight-year-old son of tho landlord rescued a baby at tho peril of his life. Tho monetary loaa la 13,000. Tho health of Kautiago was nerer hotter thau It la now. Only one death has occurred within the city limits during the past flvn daya Nothing approaching this Immunity la recorded In tho history of the city. An ordinance haa been passed by tbo city council of HL Joseph, Ma, grafting graft-ing to tho Sackncr Contracting com-pany com-pany of Chicago, a franchise lo construct con-struct a now syatem of waterworks In St. Joseph, to bo completed by OotoUr 1st of this year. A prlio fight of ten rounds wo successfully suc-cessfully given at Needles, Cal , between be-tween Dunnmy Itowan of Cincinnati and Hilly Lewis (colored) of San I'rW elsco. Itowan seemed to ba the better man, but both were badly pnnlshid and the contest declared a draw It Is next to Impossible for one to transact business In tho island of l'orto lllco, if It bu necessary to use tho mul'-s, forthoynre unreliable to the lostfo-gree. lostfo-gree. Letters mailed In San Juan post-ofuco post-ofuco frequently do not reach tbitr destination In tho Island for ten dsis. |