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Show NEWS SUMiiyT The marriage of Senator Chauneey M. Depew to Miss Palmer will take place al Nice, France, on Chrlalmaa eve. Mis F.llrn M. Stone, the captive American mUsionary. wa receotly aeen alive at Koprivenknllhl, tiear -.' 4 Dtlbnltza. In Washington Wedncmlay the Red Cross society held Its annual meeting 'i and unanimously re-elected Misa Clara 1 llartoo preaident of the society , ' Three children of Tunis Dons, of ' , . Pompton Lake. N. J., were drowned Wednesday night while skating. The .V'P' ! children were aged Id, Hand Id year. , 10 I The Women's league at Manila hat .1 J received a cablegram to the effect thai , tha Filipino Ceneral Lnkban, I In '. Samar pleading for a discontinuance oj . hostllltlra Some of the people of Draper hard f taken a stand ngalnai Ihe Introduction of a aaooon In their midst, and have ti ' brought tlte matter Into the courta foe 1 settlement. t ..' E. L. Powell, msnsgcr of the brok- . ' erage bualnessof Murphy Ac Co. of New ' York, lis disnppesred from Wilson, . - N. C, and 11 is reported he la tto.000 ' ahort In his accounts. , Tha Democratic leaders of the senate bay notified the Republicans that Ilia ' - minority doe not feel callid upon to 'm provide committee placea for either K Senator Mcl.anrin or Senator Welling- . M ton, ' B It la understood In Conssntinoplo that recommendations have been for- n warded to Washington, proposing that ' fjj an ultimatum lie aenl to Bulgaria, re- ( iu gardlng release of M lis Stotiu by brig fl ends. 1X Captain James Parker, who waa one li. of Admiral Schley's counsel before lha I: court of Inquiry, la engaged In the I collection of material fur a biography ' ' I ' of Admiral Schley which ha proposes I to write. If The bank of Bturgla, Ky., waa robbed f of S39.000 between midnight and dawn 1 Friday. The work was done qnlrtly f and Bulbing was known about the rob- t ' t bery until the bank waa opened for J buslneaa. f Thomas Cody, charged with alealiug ' j thirteen bltyole from various partlea f In Loa Angeles, pleaded guilty In the F criminal court and waa sentenced by .j Judge Smith Friday lo asrv ten yeare J In Hsu quenlln. 1 Lying on ths floor of tha cloaet In hla own home In Denver, with hie deed body wedged agslnat the door. Adam Oeller waa found by hla aged wife Friday. Ha had beeo missing lines Alooday evening. ', j ' ", Tha Boers still believe lhal Kuro peart Intervention Is Imminent, that lireat i llritsln la tired of the war, and that f. liny have only to hold out long enough -In order to mske the British ao weary :', that they will surrender. Bound, gsfged ami blindfolded, the lead body of K.I ward Klchhorn, a tier- ', nan farmer, wee found In bis lata home Tburadny night three miles east sf Duquoln, Iowa. Robbery Is sup- ' posed to have been the motive. General Bruce-Hamilton, after a sight march, surprised and captured practically the whole of the Boer Beth- ' 1 command at TrlchanUfontnln early Tuesday morning. Seven liners were killed end 131 were ins.le prisoner. The police of Patterson, N. J., have been asked to keep a lookout for a well dressed, refined looking woman who haa been going about that city representing that she I authorized to collect funds fur the llburatlon of Miss Stone. Carefully -compiled statistic of the I British empire, published hy a trade paper, bring out the rather startling I fact that out nf a population of nearly 400,0o0,ooo about i8.Hsn.tMKi, or lesa than one-elglh, are of British birth nr deacenl. Iu Lo Angeles, Cel., article of In- ' corporation of the Colorado Fuel aud Irou company have been tH.ul. Till ' I step was considered necessary because of the law governing foreign corporations corpora-tions enacted at the luat session uf the legislature. Lord Kltchcnrr hsa not had to wait long for some results from hie now plun of operations against General Botha, by constructing a Hue of blockhouses. block-houses. He has hud tieneral Botha's force Inclosed In an area of 10,Ul)D square miles. Owing to objections being made to france'a furnishing the wnulc of the i projected Russian loan of i.'i),noo,0ou, t financiers In the United Stales will f shortly b souu.lrdsa to the possibility I of plaolug .'0,000,000 of Ihe loan in y that country. i By a recent proclamation General I Botha ordered the execution of hll burghere enrolled with the HritK.li . ' foroea aa scouts who might full iuto , ' the hand of the Boers. It I said that fifteen such burgher have al- j ready been ahot. .p George Vernon, a traveling violinist, j; la under arrest In Siskiyou county, 4 Cel., on a charge of pasting fraudu- ( lent checks In I'orllnnd, Or., and also i a being implicated in the robbery of ( a Southern Pacific train near Kugeue on October 2!rd last. , |