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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

been arrested and communications
from Aguinaldo. dated in Isabella prov
ince. northeastern Luzon. have been
seized in his store. The matter is BE-
ing investigated.
The Cuban constitution in its final
form, after being passed upon by the
committee of phraseology, was finally
signed on the 2lst- All the delegates
were present except Senor Llorento.
Senor Cisneros refused to sign the
copy to be sent to Washington ON the
ground that Cuba is an independent
country
Count Boni de Castellane declares
that he is satisfied with the recent
decisions Of the courts in Paris and
New York in the suits brought against
him by various persons. He says he
In now living on q strictly economical
scale
Mrs. Nation is 10 enter politics. and
BECOME the editor of The Smasher's
Mail, . paper to be run in behalf of
negroes She has refused tempting
offers to lecture, and will remain in
Topeka and help elect "A clean man
for mayor at the spring election
A deserter who has recently arrived
at Standerton. relates that Com
mandant General Louis Botha as
sembled his men February and ad-
dressed them. He declared that they
should never surrender so long as
there were 500 left, adding that he
would always be ready to lead them
Intense cold continues Throughout
Germany. In some parts of the coun-
try the weather has been the coolest
in IS years At Cologne q young lady
reveler was frozen to death in the
street and . goodman fell from his
carriage with both legs frozen Near
Remage . hicyclist was found dead.
Eleven persons were killed and .
large number injured at the result of
. collision. at Rushine's siding. near
Bordentown, N. J., of the -Nellie
BY" express and IN accommodation
train. on the 21st- Part Of the cars of
both trains were burnsd-
Fred l. Richter, one of the most
prominently known farmers of ST.
Clair county. Ill, fell dead. on the
e1st. in his front yard. Death vas
caused by apoplexy. The deceased was
rs years old, and one Of the pioneers
Of the community.
r G. Dun 4 Co., on the esd. report
Cd: Failures for the week were 2s3
in the United States. against 2o1 last
year. and 30 in Canada, against - last
year"
The assassin of James Lyal. acting
British consul at Ciudad Bolivar. ven-
exuela, has been sentenced to IL years
imprisonment
The American Carnation society de-
cided. ON the 22d, to hold its next an
nuai meeting in Indianapolis, Ind,
and elected wra. G. Berterman, of that
city, president
A Washington dispatch of the 22d
said that ex-Gov. Francis would sug-
rest to President Mckinley the nam
ing of former Presidents Cleveland
and Harrison as members of the
louisiana Purchase Worlds fair COM
mission, the idea being TO have men
Of acknowledged standing and nation
nj repute on the board.
Mrs Poster, wife of F. E. Foster,
Who was shot and nearly killed by
Clarence Robinson at Algona, Ia, has
confessed to implication in the at
tempted murder of her husband. and
brings others into the ease The con-
fession has caused a sensation
The jury in the case of Dr. Samuel
|J. Kennedy, tried in New York for
the murder of Dolly Reynolds. failed
to agree and wss discharged by Judge
Fursman- The jury is understood to
have stood eight TO four in favor of
acqnittal-
Ms. Charles w. Fzirhsnks. the wife
| Of Indiana's senior United States SEN
.tor. was, on the I'D. declared elected
president general of the Daughters
of the American Revolution having
received 355 votes to EOS for Mrs
Donald Mclean end ~ for Mrs Wash
| ington Roeblins.