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Show to Chicago. For a d stance a speed of 102 miles an hour was mainiamed. A soldier supposed to have been killed kill-ed on the battlefield of Sliiloh in 1862 has lately turned up at his old home in Illinois. William C. Kedding, Jackson Count v Ind , over eighty years old, has cut almost al-most an entire new set of teeth in the past few weeks. A successful bone grating was preformed pre-formed at Springville, III., in which four chickens were sacrficed to supply material mater-ial for a man's shin bone. Strawberries and all the early fruits and many apple trees and peach trees are now in full bloom, and prospects for an abundant fruit harvest were never better bet-ter . Qg den Cmnmtrci ai. A special trsin of eighteen cars of hav arrived over 'he Union Pacific yesterday from Springville en route for Denver. This train of hay is shipped bv Roylance & Crandall, and is the second consignment consign-ment made bv th's firm within a little more than a week Ogden Commercial, London, April i$ Commenting on the successful conclusions of the commercial com-mercial treaty between thn United States and Spain, the Graphic says Spain's action will go far to strengthen the propaganda of annexation inCanada and Newfoundland. The Graphic adds: "It is difficult to see what to do to stem the movement but infallibly a disruptive out come is plain enough." Four thousand strikers gathered here to night to listen t3 speeches by Alex. Jones the socialist and August Delaher international secretary of the Bakers, union, ones refered to the killing of strikers a Morewood under the American flag. He much preferred the red flap. He denouueed the capitalistic press in U'i compromising language. Duing the process of the meeting one Hnngarian voted to return to work, whereat he was set upon, thrown out of the hall and badly beaten. More mass meetings will be held to-morrow. A dispatch from Cape Town iays:"The Cape I?xi(efticial)has recievesl advices that Salisbury hs deefded not ta take official action upon the Keira incident except to send a remonttration to Libson A mass meeting has been summoned to pfitest against the government's inaction. in-action. The Cape Times advises that tie imper.al flag be lowered unles colossal coloss-al intrests are protected." The correspondent of the T.tnts at Madrid says g ave anxiety is felt there over the state of affairs in Portugal. He expresses fears that a revolution is about to break out.in which event, he says, the lives of foreign subiects will be endangered, en-dangered, A vonng couple legistered at the Grand Union hotel Fonysecond street and Fourt J avenue, Mondav morning as A Teh' and and wife, and were ass gned and were assigned a lar?e room on the th'rd floor. To-night -hey were found dead, lockeb in each others aims. Th-y hud emqloyed the old fam:liar method of inhaling gas through a rubber tube held in the mouth. On the womans breast was a large a nd beautiful bouq-set bouq-set ehidently bought for the accasion. No one at the hotel knew . who the couple were, dut thev were evidently Germans. They left four letters, two to Mrs Miller and one to a women in Williamsburg Will-iamsburg Mrs Mi ler refused to state who the sutciders are. The other let London, Apt il 94 One of the results of the action of the Portuguese officials in firing upon the British steamer Agnes and the seizure of two cargo boats attached at-tached to the expedition, become public by the action taken by the Portuguese-cabinet Portuguese-cabinet to day. It appears in addition to the dispatch of three British war ships to the entrance ol Pungwe river, as announced an-nounced ov Salisbury yesterday, the British prime minister forwarded trie ultimatum ul-timatum to the Portuguese government declaring unless immediate facilities were afforded British subjects to open Pungwe river in accordance with the provisions of the modus vivendi now existing ex-isting between Great Britain and Portugal, Portu-gal, the British government would resort to force in order to insure respect on the part of Portugal to her treaty engage ment, and the result would be disastrous to Portngue e enterprise in that part. The Portuguese cauinet to-day, under pressure of Salisbury's ultimatum, gave consent to the free passage of Pungwe river. News Items. Baron Hirsch has bought a large tract of land near Ridsewav.Pa., on which he will colonize Russian Jews to cultivate sugar beets. A Chicago snake charmer went to sleep in a loom lull of reptiles and had a narrow e-eipe lrom death ia the embrace em-brace of a huge python. A former named Nann in a province of Austria, killed his wife and four child ren with a hatchet and hanged bimsell te:auseol huaucail troubles. Gould hot the record in American I raiirukding in his fast run from Omaha |