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Show NKWS SUMMARY. It In said that Japan Intends to buy the Chilean warshlpe now In courBO of construction. The existence of hulmnlc plague at the aeais.rt of liiieiue, Chile, la officially offi-cially conllrmed. hnlvntor I'aronn. an Italian, ran muck In Chicago and fatally wounded wound-ed a young woman nnd a negro. During the fbcnl year Gnl.UlM allena arrived at Kills Island against 479.791 for the preceding twelve months. Kdwiird Htrlncer w-an shot and killed by a isdlcmau nt Philadelphia while attempting to ateal a crato of fruit. The unseasonable frosts near Ijike Chnlce. Valey of Mexico, have do ntroyod cronn to tho vnluo of a million mil-lion dollars. The town of i'lilnt Lick. Ky . wan almost totally destroyed by Are last week, only one business house being toft ntamllng. The tnmtal deficiency for the fiscal year Just closed will ho 11.1117.20.1. Tho deficit for thn previous fiscal year waa IH.li'11,170. Fire started by flrecrnckera d atroyinl three shopn of thn Mnnhntlan Hallway company In Now York City, causing a loss of llfio.000. According to advices from Vienna tho w-holo Austrian cabinet haa ro-algnod, ro-algnod, thus adding greatly to the confusion In Ihn political situation. Thn Cuban mmmlltoo on foreign relations hna prepared a roairt recommending rec-ommending thn poatsinement of the naval stations trenty signed Feb. IS. (iraln fires hnvn Iiihmi rnglng In Die Haoriun.'iito ond Htockton, Cnl.. districts dis-tricts during Ihn jmst week. On Union Island lir.o.uoo worth of bnrley wm destroyed. Thn nummary of thn business transacted trans-acted by Ihn patent ofllce for the fl cal year ended June 3oth. shows thnt SH.2:i9 patents were' grunted an I D l.2."0 nppllcntlonn llled. Thn Colorado rlvei broko thningt thn levee two miles aouili of Yuma Arlxonn. and Is now II Hiding .1 largo fertile valley. Consldenibl.! diringn U ranrhen In thn vldnliy la expected. U A. Mimre, secretary of the eltj of Dallas, wna shot and killed Si r.dii) evening by his sou. Moore. It In nl legod, bad been drinking and had ut tacked his youngci 1.0.1 when 1110 ol dor boy shot him. I. It. llurgtilst. a professional high dlvur, was diinhed to death nenr Davenport, Dav-enport, la., 011 thu 4th by the break, lug of a ladder na he wna about to tuako a dlvo, almost every bono In lilt body being broken. Klllott hall of the Weateyau mil-verslly mil-verslly at Delaware, O., and which contalneil the laboratory, library and gymnasium of the Institution, waa destroyed de-stroyed by fire on tho night of the 4th, caused by fireworks. One man was killed and two horses drowned on tho cstutu of Howard Could at Port Washington, I.. I., on the 4th, thn horses becoming frightened fright-ened by tho whistle nf a yacht and running over thn dock. The czar ban authorized thn formation forma-tion of a new police forco to maintain main-tain order In tho rural districts of provinces of Kuropciin Itussla. Tho sum of iri.sr.o.ooo lias been appropriated appropri-ated to cover the cost. A mob bunged a negro at Hcotta-boro, Hcotta-boro, Ala., hut before they secured blm they hud to shimt tho sheriff, .who, with a revulvur, attempted to prevent their entrauco to tho Juil. The sheriff will recover. A bill Introduced In the Oxxrcla legislature by Kepreneiitatlvo Granatin Gran-atin of Wllken county provides that hereafter a tax of 1100 shall be llu-posod llu-posod on uvery dlvorco granted In the statu uiion groumla uther than In-ll.Ullly. In-ll.Ullly. One dead nnd throo Injured Is the result of a duel with revolvers at Htoelvllle, Mo., between Bherlff W. H. Taff. his deputy. Perry Ives, Deputy Marshal John Woods nnd Hubert Htnrkn. a farmer, and his son Hlrschol, aged 2:1 years. Charles Kvana. colored, suspected of the murder of John L. Phillips, was taken from the Jail In Norway, S. C, and lynched by a mob. Four negroes who were ronllueil In the Jail also wore taken by the mob aud beaten Into Insensibility. Patrick Connors was burned to death aud Frank llaynes was very seriously scorched In a fire which destroyed tho floating coul dlggor "Pittsburg." anchored lu tho Mississippi Missis-sippi river at Ht. Unils. lluyuos ts In a very serious condition, Secretary Cortelyou baa announced law appoint inetit of H. O. Weaver ol Ohio to bo his privute secrut&ry. Mr. Weaver ts 30 years of age, and catered ca-tered the government service In 1894, as a stenographer, after passing a civil service exiimluutlon. In Home on the 4th many American flags ware displayed from various private pri-vate houses and nt the Untied Htatos ambassy. and a banquet was given at the American coll. -go. nt w-hlch patriotic patrio-tic tonsta were drunk, Includlug tha beuHh of President Roosevelt. |
