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LATEST NEWS BULLENTIN. (News Originating on the Day the Steamer Sailed.) Lady Decies, formerly Vivian Gould, underwent an operation in London for appendicitis, following her presentation at Court. Lady Decies went through the operation successfully and will soon be out. The New York and Cuban Mail steamer Merida was sunk by a steamer of the United Fruit Company, but all hands, including 325 people were saved by the fruit steamer and brought to Norfolk, Va. Fourteen birdmen demonstrated aeroplanes before the British Parliament, and A. J. Balfour flew for severa' minutes in a warfaring biplane. Karl Baedeker, son of the publisher of the well known guide book service, has just died in Germany. The Pope has suspended his audiences for the present owing to his continued ill health. He is permitted a few private audiences however. Dr. Henry Van Dyke has withdrawn his resignation presented some time ago to the Board of Trustees of Princeton University. The resignation had not been acted upon. The rate war on the Isthmus between the Pacific Mail and Bates-Chesebrough lines has ended and the United States will be the arbiter in coming to an agreement. The Mormon Church has deprived one of its priests of his vestments, declaring that he is a polygamist, and that the Church no longer countenances nor teaches plura] marriages. The prop has been knocked from under the Beef Trust by a court decision overruling the trust demurrer to the indictments, thus holding the Sherman Law legal, and indicating that an unlawful combination has been made. Peter Fanning, Mayor McCarthy's private detective, has been suspended from duty as a result of his indictment by the Grand Jury for complicity in a i the crib cases. The Kern Valley Bank of Bakers- a field has been closed by the State i Superintendent of Banks for violating r the law by carrying too many bonds k of one issue. The government has begun its fight B against the Southern Pacific oil lands a in California. Over $500,000,000 is involved in the suits over the vast tracks o A granted the railroads. ( GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN. It is reported that Quantrell, the famous guerilla, supposed to have been J killed in a battle in Kentucky in t 1865, is still alive and is now in MexiCO. Fear is expressed for the condition S of the Pope, who besides having attacks of gout has a weak heart and I t shows symptoms of arterial degeneration. I A coterie of San Francisco capitalt ists have formed a $5,000,000 corporaI tion to manufacture a safety blasting powder by a secret process. The fac- i M tory will be located at Antioch, Cal. The combined musical clubs of Stanford University are to travel to Chica ago and back this summer, giving concerts en route. The president of a Fresno, Cal., bank, Dr. J. L. Butin, has been arrested for violating medical laws in the issuance of opium prescriptions. It is reported that Congress will probably make a 50 per cent. reduction in the tariff on wool as a compromise with those who demanded free wool. Second Lieutenant George M. E. Kelley of the Thirtieth Infantry, was killed at San Antonio, Texas, by a fall from a Curtiss aeroplane. He was one of the War Department's most promising military aviators. Dynamiters, supposed to be "Black Hand" agents, blew up the home of a wealthy Italian residing in Pittsburg because he refused to pay any attention to a letter demanding $10,000. The steamship Corwin has left Seattle for Nome. The latter place has been cut off from direct communication with the outside world since last October. The Corwin is the first passenger steamer to enter the Bering sea this year. John Hays Hammond has secured immensely valuable water rights in Northern California and is forming