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Show :: : 1 NEWS SUMMARY. The plague at Villa Union. Mexico baa been checked. The state of Missouri la considering the erection of a new 13,000,000 cnpltol building. Chicago police have captured a Paris criminal, who la auld to have got away with 180,000. Five boys were playing on a raft at Chant, I. T , when It capsized and they were drowned. A broncho ran amucR In New York laat week and tried to break Into the Waldorf-Astoria. A Cincinnati planing mill collapsed last week, killing two men and Injuring Injur-ing twelve others. Three Rhode Island young women were run down by a passenger train and Instantly killed. Famine has appeared in tbe northern north-ern provlncea of Japan, and thausunds of people are starving. Two big passonger steamers crashed Into each other on Long Island sound and six lives were lost. I It Is reported thnt a treaty of peace I has been signed between tho Uruguayan Uru-guayan government and tho rebels. Tbe Houfrlere volcano, on tho Island ' of St. Vincent, Is vary active, nnd Is I discharging denso clouds of stnoko. j A Kentucky grand jury has returned an Indictment against a man who went to church while aufTcring from small-' small-' pox. Advices havo been recolved that tha war In Uruguay was brought on by the unpopularity of the new president ot that country. An old paper, found at 1'otUvlllo, Pa., may liberate threo young men who wero suntuncod to the penitentiary peniten-tiary for burglary. RoiiKhly estimated, tho 10 per cent Increase granted the Pennsylvania minors by the strike commission will amount to nearly f.l.OuM.OOO. The dowager empress has ordered an appropriation of half a million tacU to be mudo for tho Chlneso rcprcuca-tallon rcprcuca-tallon at the Bt. Ixuls oxpoaltlon. The sullun of Turkey baa ordered that the alafcr of the khedlve bo kidnaped kid-naped and taken to Constantinople, to be punished for renouncing her faith. The private levee protecting th llamp Duvla place in laaaquuna county, coun-ty, Mlas., gavu way Sunday, flooding thousands of acres of cultivated land. Joseph Leonard Is dead at his home In Brooklyn as tho reault of a dose of chloride of potash admlulaterod to blm In boor by his wile In mistake for I salts. 1 A 8L Louis Judge has decided that I the widow of a fraternal lodge menu f ber who has failed to pay hla dues I cannot enforce the payment of life In- i surance. Statistics published by the bureau ot Insular affuirs shows tbat thore has- . been a great Increase In the revenuea from the Philippine Islands during the past year. Ole Olson, who killed his daughter wltb a butcher knlfo because she Intended In-tended to marry contrary to bis wishes, was banged at Atkln, Minn., laat week. Carlos Ezeta, cx president of the republic re-public of Balvador, has died at Marat-Ian, Marat-Ian, Moxlco, In exile, poor and almoat frlondloas. Governor Canedo paid the expense of his burial. During the coming visit of the czar and emperor to Home tbore will be hundreds ot detectives dlsguUod as nuns and priests to prutoct the ruler from surprises by anarchists. Henry Waterman, formorly postmaster post-master ot Mlllbury, Mass., who claimed the distinction of having Issued the flrst postage stamp used In this country, coun-try, i dead In Woousocket, It. I., at the of 80. 13. Sltaenstrattnr of Ixindon has signed a contract with tho Mexican government to provldo Mexico Clly with a modern system of underground telephones. The now system will olao utilize the federal tok-Krupli wires for lung dlstnuce service tu the rumulast parts of tha republic. During tha rioting at Colmbra, Portugal, Por-tugal, caused by the refusul of tha Inhabitants In-habitants to pay their taxes, and which rusulted In three persons being killed, a mob attacked tho courts of Justice, broke up tho furniture and stoned tho troops. The steamer Mariposa, from the Ba-moan Ba-moan Islands. brliiKS further particulars particu-lars of the terrible hurricane which visited tho Pouinolu group of Islands In January. In all over COO lives were lost, and the financial lose will exceed $500,000. Dr. Julian Baker, a physician ot Tar-boro, Tar-boro, N. C, shot and fatally wounded Dr. H. T. Doss of that place. It Is aald the shooting was the result of an old difficulty between the two men. Roth are prominent throughout tko state. Tbo breaking of a coupling, followod by the runaway of a string of loaded coal cars lu thu Sunshine district at South Fork, Pa., caused the death of threo men. thu fulul Injury of ono and nioro or less serious Injuries to nine others. ! |