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NEWS SUMMARY go Three boys of Meriden, Ia., sons of well-to-do families, were killed by an Illinois Central passenger train. Fity-five natives were drowned at Johannesburg owing to the flooding of the South Rose, a deep gold mine. The supreme court has denied a re hearing in the case of Johann Hoch, sentenced to be hanged in Chicago February 23 for wife murder. A special from Pinghar, Ia., says Governor Cummins is ready to accept a third term as governor and will make an official announcement soon, President Pardo of Peru has signed the law approving the contract with Henry MacDougall for the construction of a railroad between Lima and Pisco. Captain Kurmi, who commanded the Japanese naval guns at the siege of Port Arthur, has been appointed naval attache at the legation of Japan in St. Petersburg. The fall of Count Vorontzoff-Dashkoff, Viceroy of the Caucasus, whose weak-kneed policy is held responsible for the prevailing anarchy in the Caucasus, is announced. General Linevitch reports to St. Petersburg the existence of 220 cases of Siberian plague in the army. The total number of sick in the hospital is 744 officers and 14,282 men. The internal revenue report for 1905 shows that the business of the Philippine islands amounted to $195, 000,000 in gold. The amount of taxes collected was $4,000,000 in gold. Poltavatsky, the youth of Moscow who on June 15, 1905, attempted to assassinate General Trepoff, has been condemned to five years' imprison, ment, without loss of civil rights. Sarah Jones, a seventy-year-old wo man, was convicted of murder in the first degree at Philadelphia, for the killing of her foster daughter's child within a few hours after it was born. After a run, the Columbia Banking and Trust company of Charleston, S, C., closed its doors, and the directors made a general assignment of property and assets for the benefit of creditors. A coroner's jury at San Francisco, in the inquest over the three men who were killed recently on the transport, Meade, found a verdict of accidental death caused by inhaling poisonous smoke. Jim Cotton, a negro, was shot to death at Elmaville, Ala., by a mob of white men. Cotton was accused of shooting at Jim Philips, a guano sales man, who had administered a thrashing to Cotton. At Rickmer's ship yard in Bremerhaven last week there was launched the biggest sailing ship in the world. The length of the craft is 438 feet and her breadth 54 feet, and she is of 8,000 tons burden. Governor Stokes of New Jersey has granded Mrs. Antoinette Tolla, the Hackensack murderess, a further reprieve of sixty days in order to allow her counsel to present further evidence for a new trial. A punitive expedition has captured a large band of revolutionists in the Dehlen estate in the vicinity of Riga. Fifteen of them have been tried by court-martial and shot. The others were flogged with knouts. Special investigation of the affairs of the Equitable Life Insurance society within a year have cost that corporation more than $300,000, according to a statement authorized by Paul Morton, president of the Equitable. President W. G. Tight of the New Mexico university was seriously injured at Albuquerque, by an explosion of gasoline while experimenting in the laboratory. One of his arms was torn off and he was otherwise horribly mutiliated. Many Jews at Kieff have received by mail sentences of death in the name of the pan-Russian league in defence of the holy cross. A great panic prevails among the Jewish population, who are expecting a renewal of the anti-Jewish riots. Fire broke out in Littleton, W. Va., an oil town, and before it could be extinguished nearly every business house was destroyed, about 800 of the 1,500 inhabitants were without homes and a financial loss of more than $200,, 000 was sustained. Mount Vesuvius volcanic activity continues. Streams of lava have in+ vaded the railroad track at three
