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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Nina persons ara dead aa the result of an explosion In th squib factory at Prlreburg, Pa. In time of peace the Japan araiy, consisting of 41' 1,000 men, (Hit kat im.&no.Oufl a year. A number of buildings were shakes down at Manr.anlllo, Mexico, a tke result of an earthquake. Russia haa the largest nsmber of soldiers and reserves of any so as try on earth except Germany. Fourteen thousand miners are en strike In Iowa as a result of refusal of the operators to Increase wage. Four American warship have arrived ar-rived at Panama, One or mora of tke vcHsels will remain there Indefinitely. The statement Is made that Benator Gorman will not be a candidate for the Democratic presidential asm I nation na-tion A quarry blast explosion near Rick-mond, Rick-mond, Vn,, resulted In the deatk of thru men aud the eerlou Injury of two others. This Is thn fourth time Japan kaa made war on foreign nation, except for early barbaric expedition against the Koreans. Benator Clark of Wyoming has Introduced In-troduced a bill providing for a right of way fur irrigation on the pabll land and rcr-rvatlons, Mnrtlal law prnctlrally prevails In thn department of the Nortl, Frnnee, owing to Iho menacing altitude el tke striking textile workers. The correspondent of the Matin a Toklo reports that the Korean governor gov-ernor or c'hcng-Wu has established hi olllce under Japanese protection. Representative Williams of Mississippi Missis-sippi has Introduced a bill providing that tariff duties on any article shall not amount to more than 609 per sent adralorem. Ilerr Dufay, the German Tice-eensnl at llnlta, haa been murdered ky aa Italian beggar, who was arrested. Tk motive of tho murder la aald to kav been revenge. Thomas Danforth of McKeeaport, Pa., after losing f :'00 In a poker gam, went before a notary public and look an oath not to play poker again far ninety-nine years. A dispatch from Kate Rajn, lalana of Sumatra, announrea that In an engagement en-gagement botween Dutch troops and Arhlnoso, the former lost three saaa. while 641 Arblnese were killed. . I Both houses of tho legislature ha passed a bill authorizing thn payment by the atate of New York of a pension of f7I per month lo Hiram Crank, tk last survivor of thn war of 1813. Tha commandant at Vladivostok haa published an order In the Russlaa, Chinese and Korean language to the effect that he will sink any veeeol attempting at-tempting to outer the port at night An explosion In the Cltlxnna' National Na-tional bank building at Albla, Iowa, resulted In R. Ramsey, Kdwaxd Dough rty and Richard Grime being killed. The explosion la supposed to have ! been In the hentlng plant I Postmaster Goneral Payne' condl- ' tlon has Improved sufficiently to per- mil him to romo downstair. Preparation Prepara-tion are making for tho postmaster general' southern trip, oa which be expect to atart thl week. The survivors of the Varlag and Korlelg, which vessels were dostrnyivl In Chemulpo harbor, arrived at Bebas-topol Bebas-topol Bunday, and received ovations as enthusiastic a thoeo with which they were greeted at Odessa. Detectives working on thn ens say that the bandits who held up the Ore. gon Express at Copley, Cal., and killed Mnssengor O'NcIl were the same men wbo held up fifteen men In Davo Kndl-colt's Kndl-colt's suloon at Kennel, Cal., o.i March 20tb. The Illinois miners and operator have signed the state ngreemont, of s fecllve for two years, when the Joint convention met Bunday there waa not one dlBKentlng vote agnlnat the agree- 'c, ment reached by the Joint cale com- ) mlttee. ' A correspondent, cabling from Seoul, says It has been learned there that the Russian rnvutry, In much dls-trcBS, dls-trcBS, la ro'lrlng toward MIJu. They ara cutting down telegraph poles to use as fuel snd their horse are dying for lack of proper food. Tha mint at Ban FTanrlsco during tho month of March broke all records for gold coinage since the umi of money mon-ey began In civilisation. The amount coined during thn month reached the enormous sum of t33.113.Mrti, an ager-age ager-age of more than tl.noo.tioo a day. It la announced by thn local committee com-mittee In charge of the arrangements for the national Democratic convention, conven-tion, which will be held In St. IiiIb. beginning July Cth. thai the lle.oiul pledged to Iho national ronimllteo bus been subscribed by IiubIuc.b men. The North German Gatulte, a gov eminent organ, tlen.es tho rumors printed In Umdon and circulated in the United States that (he health ol Kmperor William Is such that it gives occasion for concern. Tho paper ad Ih Uiat the emperor's health remains ei coilenL |