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any intention OF expressing NeneZuela.
Minister Bowen says he has assurances
that the dispute will be settled soon
and satisfactorily. :.
The famine situation in northern
Sweden is growing worseaand thou
sands OF persons are face TO face with
act nal starvation. -
Earthquake and volcanic disturb
ances near Urique, Mexico. have riyen
In twaiu Aentapana mountain, VI
LATER. =
| In the United States senate on the
Goth The diplomatic and consular APP
preparation bill was passed and rhe
statehood bill was further discussed.
senator Alger (Nich) and senator kit
ltredge IS ID took the oath Of Office.
IN the house the military acsd DENY bin,
carrying S644,2T3, was passed. a rgso-
luton was adopted calling ON the post
master genera for the correspondence
in the Indianola, Miss. post Office case
Mr.. Overstreet Gnd.) submitted the
report upon the antitrust bill The
Notifications appropriation bill, which
carries S7,093,943, was reported.
Senator Quay made an effort on the
27th 10 hold the United States senate
ia continuous session to consider the
statehood bill. but failed. The day
was spent i'm consideration OF he bill
with the exception OF an hour de-
voted TO speech by Senator Scott
| CIV. Na.) on the pension laws. In the
house an antitrust bill, measure
making Intoxicating liquors import
ed into states subject to the latter's
jurisdiction, and the senate bill 80 in
crease federal Judges salaries were
passed. A resolution was introduced
declaring il was the sense uf the
house that the treaty with Great
Britain as To the Alaska boundary
is perfectly plain and needs no inter
probation.
Lorrin Andrews, OF New York, has
been appointed attorney general Of
Hawaii by Gov. Dole.
IL is generally believed in London
that the death senteace pronounced
on Col. Arthur Lynch for high treason
will be committed 10 penal eervitude
for life.
King Oscar OF Sweden is dangerously
i'll at Stockholm.
A volunteer force organized 10 dis
perse the ladroues i'm the province *
Zambales, in the Philippines. was sur
rounded and defeated, three Americans
being killed
Thirty citizens Of Strotford, la, were
arrested for holding up a coal train and
selling several cars OF fuel.
Judge w. Il. Day, secretary of state
under President Mckinley, has ac
cePted an appointment to the lutte =
State Supreme court TO succeed jus.
ticc Shiras.
\ British nayah officer q In Guayra
says that vt Venezuelan blockade will
soon-bT<r raised.
/ Joe Thomas. negro desperate,
was caught by mob and burned at
the stake near New Orleans for the
murder OF sheriff Curry
Boughton, Ford & Co, bankers az
Burton, o., made an assignment, with
sssets of 100000 and liabilities 81
$500 600.
President Roosevelt and party of
friends left Washington for Canton.
o.. TO participate in the celebration
of the Mckinley birthday exercises.
At the United Mine Workers con
vention in indianapolis n report
against government by injunction"
was adopted John Mitchell was re-
elected president.
Philip Doblin. Of New York, con
fcssed perjury before the house COM
mittce in declaring he offered $1,000
bride TO Representative Lessler, OF
New York
Three men robbed the Bank Of
Stecleyille, H., Of $4,000 and escaped
in carriages.
twenty-five person were killed aud
dozens hurt many fatally. in a col
lision on the Central Railroad Of
New Jersey near Westfeld.
The business portion and a number
of residences Of Buck Creek, Ind,
were burned.
William McKinlcy's birthday ami
versary WAS celebrated at Canton, o.
with a banquet at which President
Roosevelt was chief guest aud
speaker.
Sentence of death passed upon Col.
Arthur Lynch for high treason has
been commuted to penal serritEdc
for life by the British government
Further progress has been mndc
by MiHistcf Bowen in negotiations
with allie,\for settlement with Vcn-
e1uclu and raising Of the blockade is
expected soon.
The get coal convention IN Wash
ton decided that enforcement OF
present laws viii correct evils.
The British steamer Grano was
sunk Of Ramsey island and 10 az the
crew were drowned
About 80 women patients. in the
Colney Hatch Insane asylum Lon
don persisted IN fire which de-
stroycd hve buildings 81 ,be institu.