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LATER NEWS.


enterprises is lie.
The United States supreme court de.
cided the Kentucky governorship case
in favor Of Governor Beckham.
A bill to prevent interstate commerce
in convict made goods was passed in
the senate without division.
Chinatown of Portland is to be
cleaned up to prevent the possible
propagation of bubonic plague.
Two workmen were killed and 81
injured at strikers riot in Berlin.
One hundred and three arrests were
made.
Mataofka, one Of the Samoan chiefs,
thinks he has been treated shabbily by
Germany, and revolt may occur al
any time.
Filipinos lost 90 men killed in an
engagement at Agusan, in Cagyan
province. American loss, two killed
and three wounded.
Two cars of kerosene were blown up.
a car of bicycles smashed by collision
on the Northern Pacific which occurred
about nine miles east of Spokane.
The postmaster general has suspended
Director General of Post Rathbone and
appointed Fourth Assistant Postmaster.
General Brystow as acting director.
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The Lodge amendment to the post.
Office appropriation bill continuing the
pneumatic service in cities where con.
tracts have been made and appropriate
ing 1925, 900 for the same was adopted
by the senate, 38 to 90.
The Russian embassy has considera-
bly, perturbed governmental and diplo-
matte circles at Constantinople by in
viting the immediate attention of the
porte to the deplorable situation Of
many districts of Armenia, resulting
from brutal methods of collecting taxes
and from prosecutions.
Rev. DR.. Edwin A. Schell, of Chi
cago, has filed declaration in a suit
for $25, 1000 damages against Rev. DR..
Charles Parkhurst, Rev. Henry @. Jen-
nings, and Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Berry.
DR.. Schell was formerly the general
secretary of the Epworth League. He
charges the defendants with entering
into conspiracy to injure his reputa-
tion, thereby forcing him to resign his
official position.
London is enthusiastic over the reliei
of Mafeking.
British forces under Lord Dundonald
have advanced as far as Laing's Mex.
Fire destroyed the main portion o.
st. Mary's school at Belmont, S. c.
Loss is estimated at 5000, 900.
William H. Hunt, of Montana. hal
been selected to be secretary of state
Tor the island of Puerto Rico.
Street-car strikers of st. Louis are
restrained from interfering with mai
cars by temporary injunction.
Texas has declared a quarantine
against San Francisco on account of the
prevalence of plague in that city.
Fenian sympathizers with the Boer
made an attempt to blow up the Brit
ish Notifications at Esquimalt, B. g.
Congressman George B. Mcclellan
son of 'Little Mac" the federal gen
eral, is being urged as running mat
for Bryan.
Washington Democrats in convention
at Spokane, indorsed Bryan for presi
dent, James Hamilton Lewis for vice
president.
The Beers announce they will defen(
Johannesburg, and the consuls of tn
neutral powers have been advised t.
look after their citizens.
Owners of Chicago breweries hav
defed the city ordinance requiring
them to pay $500 license fee the frs
day of May each year.
American warships are leavin
Manila for Chinese ports to escape tn
hot weather which comes to that cit,
every April, May and June.
In the coast towns of Colima an
Jolisco, Mexico, an earthquake cause'
houses to be submerged, boats swampe'
and several natives to drown.
1 The statue of General Grant, pre-
sented by the @. A. r. to the nation
was unveiled in the great rotunda G
the capitol with impressive ceremonies
In the senate, the proposition relai
ing to the transportation of mail b
the pneumatic tube system, was lai
on the table by vote OF 32 to 16.
A work train on the Guadalajar
branch of the Mexican Central roa
ran into an obstruction, wrecking th
engine and number OF cars and Kill
ing j men.
Assistant Surgeon A. s. Lloyd, {
the United States marine hospital sci
vice at Chicago, has been ordered
San Francisco to assist in the work {
!, prevention of the spread Of the buboni
plague.
Governor Roosevelt has signed I'll
bill compelling provision of seats fc
mattresses in New York restaurants.
, Average wages in Germany: Hous'
maids, $2.S8 month; laborers, $3.1
a week; carpenters, So week.
Minneapolis has established an
maintained for year three public pla.
grounds for children at cost OF 500
, New York ball players saved person
/ In a burning building by catching the
as they fell.