The Newark journal., 1903-05-15

desire to again make the race for president as the democratic nomi- nee.
 Admiral Cervera, who command cd the Spanish fleet at Santiago, has been honored by being made a senator for life.
 A triple alliance has been pro- posed between Great Britain, Japan and the United States to check Russia's plans to seize Manchuria.
 An extra ~,ssion of the Golom- bian congress has been called to convene June 20 for the purpose of considering the Isthmian canal treaty.
 A representative of Great Brit ain has arrived in St Louis to per sonally supervise the erection of buildings for that eountry's exhib- it at the big fair.
 The investigation of the affairs of the posto.ice department has resulted in the dismissal of A. W. Machin, general superintendent of the free delivery system.
 The existence of bubonic plague has been discovered in the suburbs of Callao, a port in Peru. The port has been closed and a strict quarantine put in force
 Francisco Bianco, formerly edit or of an Italian paper in St. Louis, became suddenly insane, and when officers attempted to take him into custody he placed a revolver in his mouth and fired, the bullet tearing off the top of his head.
 All union conductors, brakemen and switchmen employed on the Mobile and Ohio railroad betwee Meridian, Miss, and New Orlean- went on strike last week, after being refused an increase in wages of from 12 to 15 per cent.
 B. r. Ewen, who was standing beside J. B. Marcum when he was shot down in the court house door at Jackson. Ky, and who it Is said recognized the murderer, was him. self shot by an assassin, who was concealed behind some shrubbery in Ewen's yard.
 A long pending deal between the Rock Island and Frisco systems has been consummated. President Yoakum of the Frisco is now one of the directors of the Rock Island system. The Rock Island will take over the Frisco and the two systems will be operated under one man. agement.
 Internal revenue receipts during ten months of the fiscal year have averaged $19.000,000 a month, against $22, 2,500,000 the previoas year It is estimated that the re- peal of the war taxes would cut in- ternal revenue receipts for this fs- cal year S75,000,0O0, but the re- duction will hardly exceed $42,00O,- GOO.
 The New York Jewish Relief Society has received details of shocking atrocities in Kishineif, the capital of Bessarabia, where, within a week, hundreds of Jews were put to death by Russian off, cers. Starvation has been added to the horror of the massacre. and many men, women and children, robbed of their means, their homes burned, are dying in the streets.
 The police of New York City discovered a dastardly plot to blow up the English line steamer Ume- ria, which was to sail a few min utes before the scheme was discov- cred An internal machine secur- ly boxed, together with about a hundred pounds of dynamite, wa. loaded on to the steamer by some unknown parties. It was found that the machine had been set to explode the dynamite in thirty-six hours, giving the vessel time to reach mid ocean. The police were notified of the plot through an anonymous letter, which stated that 1t was the work of the Mafa for revenge against the English liner.
 At the Southern Baptist eonven- ton, in session at Savannah. Ca, the sum of $2s0,000 was pledged by the various states to carry on foreign missionary work the com ing year.
 Henry Wilson and Sampson Gray, negro murderers, were hang ed from the same scaffold at St. Louis. When asked if he had any thing to say, Gray answered, sNo; hurry up and get it over, and don't make bungle."
 The government has just pub- lished volume containing all the