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SUMMARY CULLED FROM DISPATCHES o THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. A Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week-National, I Historical, Political and Personal Events Tersely Told. e Congressman Burke died recently at his home in Philadelphia. Backed financially by the United States government, a salmon fisheries congress will be convened in Seattle February 23. 1904. Jack O'Brien knocked out Jack Williams in the third round of what was scheduled as a SIX round bout recently in Philadelphia. Kalman Foldessy, who was arrested in New York during President Roosevelt's recent visit for writing threatening letters, has been committed to the state hospital for the insane. a The Rappel, of Paris, publishes dispatch from St. Petersburg announcing the massacre by Boxers of a number of Christians in the Szechuan province of China. A cablegram from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, announces the death of Senora Guardiola, mother of the wife of President Palma of Cuba, and wife of former President Guardiola of Honduras. Henry Billings Brown, associate justice of the United States supreme court, will be totally blind within a week or two, according to information imparted to him by his physician. The rise in the Tiber has flooded the country so near Rome that it is impossible to get to St. Paul's, two miles out of the city, as the district surrounding Rome is now covered by four feet of water. Five of the men charged by Lant K. Salsbury with accepting bribes for supporting the project to supply Grand Rapids with water from Lake Michigan. appeared in the superior court and pleaded guilty. The report of Health Officer Snow, in regard to the diphtheria epidemic at Stanford university, shows a total of 12 cases of diphtheria, eight of which have been removed to the newly purchased detention hospital. The declaration of martial law has paralyzed all business in Cripple Creek, Heavily armed pickets of the National Guard are stationed on all street corners and many residents of the city do not venture upon the streets. Handcuffed to a man he is alleged to have defrauded out of $800, Gabriel Hossza, the young foreign banker of Sharon, Pa., wanted for the embezzlement of nearly $15,000. made his escape from an Erie train at Binghamton, N. Y. Paris. Mo.-Enraged because Miss Anna Hartman, for whom he had secured a license to wed, would not marry him, Frank Dawson shot and fatally wounded his sweetheart and seriously wounded his successful rival, Obe Hughes. William Clarke & Sons. bankers of New York, have assigned for the benefit of creditors to the Van Norden Trust company. The firm is composed of James and Hudson Clarke and had a mercantile rating of from $75.000 to $125,000. M. Raume, the French astronomer, noted for his studies of volcanic phenomena, although a very old man. has taken up his residence on Mount Ve suvius in the hope that the researches he is about to undertake will result in important discovery. As a result of the coroner's inquest at Chicago over the body of John Quinn. the detective killed by Gustav Marx. one of the car barn robbers. while the officer was trying to arrest him recently, Marx was held to the grand jury on an additional charge of murder. Later. in the criminal court, Marx changed his plea in all the cases against him to not guilty. It is reported that Edward L. Wentz, the young Philadelphia millionaire who has been missing since October 14. has been found and that he is probably demented. It is said Wentz has been hiding in the mountains not far from Finney, a station on the Norfolk & Western railroad. The banks at Colfax, Ira. Baxter and Mingo, Iowa, owned by George D. Woods. who committed suicide at Colfax. have closed their doors temporarily, the crisis being precipitated by the filing of a mechanics' lien on the fixtures in one of the banks. Governor Peabody of Colorado has issued a proclamation declaring Cripple Creek under martial law and suspending the writ of habeas corpus. He declares that the gold camp is in a state of insurrection and rebellion and that the civil authorities are powerless. Frederick H. Rindge of Los Angeles word of a fire on his one of Cal. The a recently Ventura has Malabu received ranch, county, constructed, together the ranch largest with house. in number of smaller outbuildings, were destroyed. It is rumored that many cattle were destroyed by the flames. Estimates of loss run from $100,000 to $150,000. Delige at Manahae
