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# TRANSVAAL GOVERNMENT The Transvaal government has decided to claim $5,000,000 sterling indemnity from the British South Africa company to cover the damage sustained by the Jameson raid. The arrivals of immigrants in this country for the fiscal year ended on June 30, last, were 343,267, an increase of 84,708 during the year. Their condition shows an improvement, however. A crisis has come in the police history of St. Louis. Housebreakers, robbers and thieves have gained the upper hand over the conservators of the law. There is talk of organizing a municipal vigilance committee. A Toronto despatch says that representatives of Barney Barnato, the Kaffir mine king of Johannesburg fame, have secured control of practically all the mining properties in Lake of the Woods and Rainy River districts in northwestern Ontario. The house of Frark Konjo, on the outskirts of Detroit, was wrecked by an explosion of dynamite on Saturday night, and Knjo Bob Ewers, and Konjo's daughter were injured, the first two probably fatally. The Konjos charge a man named Rozolski with having committed the outrage. The people of the state of Guerrero, Mexico, are terror stricken by the ravages made by a contagious fever, which has by some physicians been diagnosed as yellow fever. In October there were 880 deaths reported from the fever through out the state. People are fleeing from their homes. A Duluth despatch says that the Rockefeller iron syndicate has sold $500,000 worth of Minnesota ore, to be delivered next season, and 60,000 tons of Spanish-American ore. "This will enable the underground mines on the Mesaba Range to resume operations at once, and will give employment to thousands of men." Richard V. D Wood, assistant cashier of the Metropolitan national bank of New York city, which has been in liquidation for 14 years, has disappeared from his home at Piermont-on-the-Hudson, and a warrant is out for his arrest on the charge of misappropriating securities of the value of $64,000 belonging to the bank. Andrew J. Spute has been arrested at Denver charged with the murder of his wife and five children on Oct 25. Spute took the family boating and the skiff capsized and all were drowned but Spute. It has since been learned that his wife's life was insured for $10,000. Spute led a double life. Nellie Davis has been arrested charged with complicity on the crime. After litigation extending over a period of five or six years, the California statute locally known as the Wright irrigation law has been pronounced constitutional and valid by the Supreme Court of the United States, and the validity of $16,000,000 of bonds issued thereunder affirmed. Under it small farmers could unite and form an irrigation district, issuing bonds to cover the cost of dams and canals The Pennsylvania railroad company has begun running a new train which leaves New York at 8 A M, Philadelphia at 10:25, and arrives in Chicago at 8 o'clock the next morning. This train is instituted primarily in the interests of a quicker mail service between the East and the West, and its principal equipment is composed of postal cars, but through passenger enjoy the benefit of its fast time in a Pullman buffet sleeping car. Its value in accelerating the mail service is very great to business interests.