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LATER NEWS.

inc bubonic plague. Chinatown is to
be cleaned up.
The Cinnamon of Philadelphia have
decided to band together for the pur-
pose of self.protection.
Fifteen persons, the majority of
whom were children, perished in a
tenement-house fire at Newark, N. j..
In Chicago, while playing with re-
volver, 7.year-old boy shot his mother
in the abdomen. The wound will
prove fatal.
Erving Winslow, secretary of the
Anti-Imperialist League, says that the
anti-expansion vote will be between
1900, 900 and 100000.
Walla Walla, WASH, veterans of the
Spanish American war contemplate or
ganizing camp to be named after
General Henry w. Lawton.
Addison G. Rand, president of the
Rand Drill Company, and treasurer of
the Latin & Rand Powder Company,
died in New York, aged SO years.
The schooner Lila and Matte was
wrecked on Tillamook bar, being blown
ashore while trying to get out of the
bay. The vessel will be total wreck.
Puerto Rlcans must be fed for many
months yet In the center of the
island there is nothing to eat and fruit
cannot be had for from two to four
months.
The Portuguese authorities at Lou
renco Marques. at the request of Great
Britain, have arrested four Germans
bound for Pretoria, with arms and let
ters of introduction from DR.. Leyds.
Permission to do general business in
Japan has been refused 60 foreign in.
surance companies, most of them
American. Japanese officials state that
this results from the fact that their ap-
plications have failed to comply with
the japanese insurance laws.
1t is probable that the warning Chi
AOoO GOuSo Ill Cdh 1dhC1oCO WILL UC
brought together for the purpose OF
effecting peaceful settlement of the
difficulties which caused the death OF
three prominent Chinese within the last
two weeks. The Wah Ting and Sin
Suey Wing tongs have been arrayed
against the Suey Sing tongs, and while
the former organizations started the
shooting, the latter retaliated in ter
rible way week ago, when two prom
inent members of the first named tong
were shot down in their places of busi-
ness.
The senate passed the diplomatic and
consular bill.
Queen Liliuokalani will receive no
pension from the government.
General Joe Wheeler's resignation
will be accepted on his arrival in
Washington.
Rear-Admiral Mccormick has been
placed on the retired list on his own
application.
General Kobbe, with $500 men, has
occupied the town of Sorsogon, in the
southern end of Luzon.
Thousands of organized insurgents
are resisting the Americans in the
Antique province in Panay.
The annual reports of Indian agents
show that the entire Indian population
of the United States is 297, ,905.
The legislature of Illinois appropriat-
ed $l00,000 for the reconstruction of
the Lincoln moument at Springfield.
The mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York, has subscribed for e..
900, 900 of the new English war loans.
The legislative trouble at Frankfort,
KY, is at the boiling point. Militia is
in complete control of the state execu.
tive building.
The threatened strike of the EN-.
ployes of the st. Louis Transit Com
pany is off. An agreement satisfactory
to both sides was reached.
Indications are that the Boer war is
drawing to an end. President Kruger
has appealed to Lord Salisbury for a
cessation of hostilities.
Taxation of corporations in Paris has
led to the transfer of many main offices |
to Brussels, French societies being in
there under the laws of Bel
gium to avoid the French income tax. |
Admiral Kautz, commsnder-in-c chief |
Of the Pacific squadron, has been
ordered to proceed with the Philadel- |
phia to the coast of Central America
for the purpose of protecting American
there.
The president has commuted to inn
prisonment for life the sentence OF |
death imposed by court-martial in the
case OF Private George Murphy COM
pany G, Twenty-fourth infantry, con-
gicted of the murder of another soldier
,f the same company in the Philippines.
DIR. II. D. Morgan, of the United
States navy, speaking of the war in the
Philippines, says: 81 do not believe
hat the revolution is at an end. The
Filipinos are scattered about the
Stands, mainly in Luzon, in small
1ands, but it is generally understood
hat they are under orders to concen-
rate at any given point when the word
S passed. do not believe that Agui-
laldo is in China. 1t is my impression
le is still in Luzon."
Leading Paris hotels have raised the
'ates from SO to So day.
Thomas A. Edison, Jr., says he has
safety electric miners
amp