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Condensed News of the Week
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In a collision with tne German steamer Mona,
off Dublin Bay, the English steamer Lady Cairns
with her crew of twenty-two was sunk.
The Pacific Steel company, with $100,000,000
capital, has been organized at San Diego, Cal.
The object of the corporation is said to be the
construction of steamships, locomotives, war
ships, etc.
The confederate veterans of Grenada, Miss.,
have adopted resolutions to discourage the prac
tice of lynching, and approving of the action of
Governor Vardamaun in saving a negro from
mob violence.
Win. N. Smarthout, on his way to Washing
ton from the Philippines; reports that the Filipinos
decline to work at any price. He says that his
business has been practically suspended owing
to the difficulty of obtaining labor at reasonable
rates.
A petition is being circulated on the Rosebud
reservation asking for the removal of Indian
Agent McChesney and it is being signed by a
great many of the Indians. They seem to be dis
pleased with Mr. McChesney's administration of
affairs.
William E. S'ewall, formerly -governor, of
Guam, is dead. Funeral services, including mili
tary and naval honors, were held in St. Peter's
chapel on Mare Island.
An explosion at Pittsburg, Kas., which
wrecked an entire building, resulted Jn the death
of six persons and the-injury of several others.
A fire entailing a loss of $150,000 destroyed the
Union Traction company's building at Chicago.
Fifty street cars were burned.
An order has been issued to employes of the
Dawes commission that they must either dispose
of the stocks they have in banks and trust com
panics in Indian territory or resign. .
Members of the republican congressional cam
paign committee have been chosen as follows:
Metcalf, Brooks, French, Hull, Bowersock, Bart
holdt, Dixon, McCarthy, Spalding, Senator
Mitchell (Ore.), Representatives Burke, Powell,
Humphrey, Mdndell, Delegates Kalaananole, Ha
waii; Rodey and McGuire and Resident Commis
sioner Degetau, Porto Rico.
David S. Rose has been nominated by the
democrats for a fifth term as mayor of Milwaukee.
Fifty buildings were wrecked, one man killed
and several others Injured in a tornado and hail
storm at Higgihsville, Mo.
John A. Lee, former lieutenant governor of
Missouri, is seriously ill at his home in St. Louis.
William R. Hearst has established a daily
newspaper at Boston. The. name will be "Hearst's
Boston American and New York Journal."
Republicans of the First congressional district
of Nebraska have renominated Congressman Bur-kett.
An Associated press cablegram from Manila
says: Captain Dewttt, with a detachment of con
stabulary, and Lieutenant Pitney, with a detach
ment of scouts, have just encountered Macario
Sakay, the so-called president of the Filipino re
public. Sakay and fifteen of his followers were
killed and the remainder of the band was captured.
There were no casualties on the part of the
Americans.
The New York Heraldfs London correspondent
says that the radium treatment for cancer has been
entirely abandoned at the cancer hospital.
W. M. Robertson of Norfolk, Nod., has with
drawn from the contest for the republican guber
natorial nomination. It is believed that this in
sures the renomination of Governor Mickey.
Thomas G. Doyle died recently at his home in
Omaha. Ho was 70 years of age and was registrar
oC the ociety.of .the Sons of the Revolution.
The Missouri . supreme court has reversed and
remanded the case of John H. Sckinetler, con
victed of boodling while a member of the house
in St. Louis, and sentenced to four years in the
penitentiary. The court held that the informa
tion against Schmetler was not verified by affi
davits as required by law.
An Associated press dispatch from Chicago
says: To search for the scarlet fever germ in a
series of experiments on apes is the object of a
trip to Europe about to be undertaken by Dr. Lud
wig Rektoen, head of the McCormlck Memorial
Institute for Infectious Diseases. The institute
was endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. McCor
mlck, who lo3t a son through scarlet fever. Dr.
Rektoen will sail for Liverpool April 1. After two
months spent in the hospitals there experiment
ing on monkeys, ho will visit various hospitals en
the continent. The trip is undertaken because of
the difficulty and expense of bringing the monkeys
to this country.
Judge Eugene Cary of Chicago dropped dead
at a banquet in St. Louis.
Bishop L. M. Fink, the distinguished Catholic
prelaie of Kansas, is dead.
Several hundred bindery girls are on a strike
in New York.-
The republican state convention of Missouri
has instructed its delegates to vote tor Mr. Roose
velt for president and Cyrus Walbridge of St.
Louis for vice president. The delegates at large
are L. F. Parker, St Louis; Robert C. Day, fat.
Louis; W. C. Pierce, Maryville; Charles A. Clarke,
Kansas City.
An Associated press cablegram from St. Pet
ersburg says: A dispatch received from Ashkabad
(the capital of the Russian trans-Caspian terri
tory) says a rumor is current there that the
ameer of Afghanistan has been poisoned. Habi
Kullah Khan, the ameer of Afghanistan, was
born in 1872 and succeeded to the throne on the
death of his father, Abdur Rahman Khan, Octo
ber 1, 1901.
The New York correspondent for. the Asso
ciated press says that the new plan of the North
ern Securities company in substance provides for
a stock dividend of 99 per cent, this to be effected
by a reduction of that amount In the capital stock
of the Securities company. For every share .of
Northern Securities stock surrendered the com
pany will deliver ?49.27 in stock of the Northern
Pacific Railway company and $30.17 of the Great
Northern Railway company. The shares of the
Northern Pacific company,, which were taken over
by Northern Securities at ?1.15, and those of the
Great Northern at $1.80, will be distributed on this
basis. The other assets of the securities company,
consisting chiefly of its Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy holdings and Northern Pacific, will remain
in the treasury of the company until. some plan
for their distribution has been evolved.
The bubonic plague is raging at Johannes
burg. Forty-two white and 40 colored persons are
dead.
The governor of Colorado has piaced San Mi
guel county under martial law.
A race war is on in St Charles, Ark. Three
negroes have already "been killed.
The Loyal Democratic league has been or
ganized in Omaha. Dr. A. W. Riley was chosen
president and S. W. Wyatt secretary.
The republicans of the Fourth congressional
district of Nebraska have renominated Congress
man Hinshaw.
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The republican state convention for Missis
sippi has elected delegates to the national con
vention and instructed them to vote tor Mr.
Roosevelt
nvnf D Klenper of Kingston, Mo., has been
nomSed ?or congress by the republicans of the
Third district.
lana district. Ho is at present Jioutenant governor.
General Thomas Armstrong Morris of Ind
ianapolis, Ind., is dead. General Morris was said '
to-be the oldest living graduate of West Point.
His West Point diploma Is dated 1S34. Ho was 31
years of age.
A. J. Colburn, jr., former national president of
the Patriotic Order of Sons of America, died at his
home in Scranton, Pa.
Eighteen Minneapolis flour mllis have shut
down indefinitely and 1,000 people are out of
work.
Some wealthy Japanese have arrived at Seat
tle to visit the principle centers ot the. United
States, inspect rolling mills and factories of all
kinds. ' ,
After friendly litigation extending over a term
of eighteen years, the court of Appeals of New
York has declared valid a bequest of $500,000,
made by the will of Jose Sevilla, for the estab
lishment and maintenance of a home for poor
young girls.
Professor John Underner, well known as an
organist and musical director, died at Clevoland,
0., after a long illness.
, The Federal District Railway company, which
controls the street car linen in the City of Mexi
co, has bought all the "property of the Mexican
Traction company.
The correctional tribunal In Paris sentenced
Masse and Moranne to three years' Imprisonment
each for perjury in the Fair will case. Masse and
Moranne are the bicyclists who were touring at
the time of the automobile accident.
An Associated press dispatch under date ot
London,. March 24, says: Sir Edwin Arnold, the
author, died In London today. Although Sir Ed
win suffered of late years from- partial paralysis,
he was not taken seriously ill until last week.
Early this morning ho had a relapse from which
ho did not rally, and died peacefully at 10:30
o'clock. Sir Edwin continued his literary work
until quite recently, his last writing being in
connection with the Russo-Japanese war, In which
he was greatly interested. The funeral will take
place March 28. The body will be cremated at
Woking.
Fire broke out in the Delta county hospital
in Michigan and it is feared that many of the
patients will die as a result of exposure.
An Associated press dispatch from Paris, un
der date of MaYch 25, says: Count Boni de Cas
tellane, republican, created a scene in the cham
ber of deputies today. When Foieign Minister
Delcasse asked for a credit of $90,000 to defray
the expenses of President Loubet's visit to Roino
the count said it was understood that the presi
dent would not visit the pope, and yet would visit
the representative of the dynasty who had de
spoiled the papacy.
Crazed by the shock of a peal of thunder,
Julius Hamra of St Louis attempted to kill his
wife. Mrs. Hamm was enabled to see his actions
hy-the flashes of lightning and so escaped.
A disastrous storm which caused a great deal
of damage to property swept over parts of-Chicago.
Business was suspended for some time in
certain parts of the city.
An Associated press dispatch under date of
Manila, March 25, says: W. D. Ballantyne, ex
inspector of customs, has just been acquitted by
Judge Ambler on a charge of conspiracy to de
fraud the customs by furthering the illegal entry
of non-exempt Chinese. He was trted upon a sim
ilar charge in January last and acquitted.
A report from Berlin announces the death of
Professor Carl Schumann, the famous botanist,
at the age of fifty years.
Fifty pupils of the York, Neb., high school
went on a strike because of the refusal to relu
-state - one soi the student body who had-been sus
pended by Prof, Brown, principal'.
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