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Tbey never patch their old quarrels up, Ibey're always jetting new ones. . --Philadelphia Press. , Event* Reported by Telegraph Given in Short Paragraphs--One Week's Happan- Inga Chronicled to Suit the Bnsy Kaudev --Crimea, Cannalttes and Other Ma|tffS ef Pbblic Interest. THE BOER WAK, - Russian aeronauts will organize a military balloon service for ,the Trans­ vaal. Pole-Carew'8 advance with French scared Boers out of strong positions they held at Dewetsdorp, and raised siege of Wepener which Brabant en­ tered. Estimated 4,000 Boers in flight northeast. Burgher forces from Wepener and the southern part of the Free State are believed to have escaped the Brit­ ish trap. A Boer smokeless powder plant and arsenal near Johannesburg was wrecked by an explosion. Twenty? three people were killed and eighty-> two injured. ' French. Hamilton, and Bundle, with 23,000 British, are at Thalia N'chu ready for Boers, but cannot get them Into battle. Bishop Hartaell, Methodist mission­ ary, in a seruion in New York city, declared that good will come of Brit­ ish conquest of the Boers. THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES. Official reports to the war depart­ ment indicate that the Philippine In­ surrection is now confined to small robber bauds. The United States transport Sum­ ner, carrying enlisted men, nurses and money for the troops in Manila,< has reached Port Said, Egypt. General Bell declared lie would burn all towns which harbor guerrillas. His troops killed eighty Filipinos in a fight on April 16. Manila advices say Filipinos are ex­ tremely active in North Ilocos. Many bloody engagements are occurring. General Otis and staff will leave Manila for home early in May. United Stutes casualties in the Phil­ ippines: Killed and died of wounds, 43 officers; 552 men; died of disease, 26 officers; 1,(535 men: total, 09' officers, 2,187 men; grand total, 2,256. WASHINGTON NEWS. The senate--33 to 32--refused to seat Mr. Quay. It is stated that Clark, of Montana, will resign his seat ii) the senate, to avoid expulsion. The house has passed the postofflee appropriation bill and increased the pay of the census director and super­ visors. The senate accepted the conference report on the Hawaiian bill and passed the agricultural appropriation bill. The house passed the postofflee ap­ propriation bill with an amendment giving extra compensation to letter- carriers who work over forty-eight hours a week. The house passed ninety-one private pension bills, among them one grant­ ing $(J0 per month to the widow of Colonel Stotsenberg of Nebraska, killed in the Philippines. The note by the United States to Turkey has failed of its purpose. IN THE POLITICAL FIELD. The Twelfth Indiana district Dem­ ocratic convention nominated James M. Robinson for a third term in congress. Republican state conventions in In­ diana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsyl­ vania elected delegates ;;t largo and In­ dorsed McKinley's administration. Admiral Schley declines In advance any political nomination. The Indiana Republican state con­ vention nominated Wintield T. Durbin. a colonel of volunteers, for governor, and a full ticket. The Alabama Democratic state con­ vention nominated W. J. Samford for governor. The argument in the Kentucky gov­ ernorship case has been begun in the United States supreme court. Roosevelt's emphatic declaration of his position has increased the proba­ bility of Secretary Long's nomination for the vice presidency. Wharton Barker, the Populist leader, predicts that Bryan will not be noml nated. THE CRIMINAL RECORD. Corporal Harry Matthews, U. S. A., being jealous of Stella Hamilton, fired 125 shots from his rifle into a hotel at Plattsburg, .vounding the woman. He then killed .iniself. John Anderson, of Chicago, commit­ ted suicide because his wife refused to live with him. James Harris, under ^arrest at Ot- tumwa, Kan., on the charge oif mur­ dering John H. Allen, has confessed his guilt and implicated the widow of his victim.. sear Schmidt com Chicago because of losses by the fail­ ure of E. S. Dreyer & Co.'s bank. Burglars robbed the bank at Coulter- vllle. Ills., securing a booty of $5,000. Frank Meyers, charged at Chicago with being head of an "arson com­ pany," confessed to burning a house for $35. The owner and tenant admit they hired him. Thomas J. Hunter, former auditor of the Atlanta and West Point Rail­ road company, was found guilty of era bezzlement at Atlanta, Ga., and sen tenced to the penitentiary for five years. I Hugh B. Christy, who was shot by 1 Lucy Messersmith at Youngstown. O. I Is dead. After shooting Christy Mrs. J Messersmith committed suicide. ! Letter-Carrier Boyd Blackshear, of Chicago, was arrested, charged with stealing letters, marked money being found in his possession. 1 Captain O. M. Carter, late of the U. S. A., was received at the United States penitentiary at Fort Leaven­ worth, Kan., and will be put to work as a bookkeeper. | Police Sergeant Timothy S. O'Con- nell was mysteriously assassinated at Chicago. BUSINESS NOTES. A blanket mortgage to be recorded the Atlantic coast line of Virginia fpr f3J.0fm.Cft0 will cost $18,000 for goyernuietit stamps. The Hoard of Trade members at Chi­ cago defeated-a proposition to prevent the securing of cut rates on shipments. The large furniture factory at Neills- vllle. Wis., is to be reopened by a Bal­ timore firm. Stockholders of the old National Lln< seed Oil company ask for a receive* to care for about $100,000 of assets. Dun's and Bradstreet's trade reviews note a trend toward lower prices. Leaders of the strike1 of New York Central employes threaten to tie op the entire road. MISHAPS AND DISASTERS. Harry Miller, a 12-year-old boy, was run over and killed by a Chicago cable car. Jockey Frank O'Leary was killed in a race on the Aqueduct track. Two other jockeys and two horses were In­ jured. Albert Myers, aged 44, was killed by a falling shaft in a planing mill at Stevens Point, Wis. Two children, Albert and Frank Krok. aged 4 and 2 -years, ate canned meat and died from ptomaine poison­ ing at Chicago. One man was blown almost to at­ oms, two men received probably fatal and eight men and a girl serious in­ juries by an explosion of blasting pow­ der and dynamite at Larimer. Pa, Hannah Liebowitz, 13 years; Amelie Liebowitz, 11 years, and Joseph Lie­ bowitz, 6 years old. were suffocated to death in a New York tenament fire. Cloudbursts in Texas drowned six residents of Waco and four or more citizens of Blackshear. John Kortas fell from the top of a forty-five-foot hoisting derrick at the ore docks of the Illinois Steel mills, Chicago, and was killed. * Miss Vivian Clerlse and J. W. Car- downie, variety actors, were drowned in Lake Whitney, near New Haven, Conn. Nine persons were killed and a large number wounded, many of whom are likely to die by the falling of a bridge at Paris exposition. A passenger train struck and in­ stantly killed two unknown men wlio were walking on the track near Bloomsbury, N. J. A coal train ran into a shifting en­ gine on the New Jersey Central rail­ road at Philippsluirg, N,. J., and Mich­ ael McNall.v, fireman of the shifter, was crushed to death. While fighting a fire in a twenty- acre wood lot on their farm near Law- ton,, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. William Brace were hemmed in by the flames. Mrs. Brace was burned to death and her husband fatally inju^pd. Nine persons were killed and forty injured by the collapse of a bridge at the Palis exposition. Hundreds of flood victims in Texas are shelterless, but all the needy are given food and clothing. NOTABLE DEATHS. George Douglas Campbell, Duke of Argyll, is dead. Judge Charles Chad wick is dead at Lawrence, Ivan. He was attorney general of KansaB in 1800 and pay­ master general of that state In 1864. Wilhelm Schring. the poet and his­ torian. is dead at Carlsruhe. Germany, In his 84tli year. Charles G. Stachelberg. head of the cigar firm of M. Stachelberg & Co., is dead at his home in New York. Professor O. K. Spence, professor of Greek and French at Fisk university, at Nashville, Tenn.. is dead. Thomas Harland, a well-known law­ yer, author of our patent system, is dead at New York, aged 70 years. Miss Laura Haygood. a missionary of the Methodist chufeh, is dead in Shanghai. China. Mrs. M. I. Warfleld Clay, the di­ vorced wife of Cassius M, Clay, sage of Whitehall, Is dead. James Sitt McKean. president of the Union Trust company and a former postmaster of Pittsburg, is dead. General Allan Rutherford, dlerk of the Maryland court of appeals, is dead at Washington, D. C. THE FIRE RECORD. The town of Pantuer, Mex., has been completely destroyed by fire. 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