FIRE DESTROYS HOTEL Conflagration of Supposed Incendiary Origin at Jackson, Ky. THE MILITARY WAS SENT TO SCENE Chief Witness Against Curtis Jett and Tom White for the Murder of Marcum tim of th: Feudists Without Inlury, But the Property is a Tota! Loss to the Owners. Loui e, Ky. (Special Hotei, Jack on. Ly, ee-st ! by Cap . J Ewen ut g owned x 1 art FINCipar Ww now on of Lawyer he or ne gr burned to t Fifteen guests were njury. all escaped without 13 no insurance on the structure hotel, fects O origi belief is general incendiary origin Captain Ewen addition to the completed and was It was in this part fire was disc The town of partment 1 and EAST ST. LOUIS AN ISLAND. Flood Not Subsiding and 10,000 Refuges to be Fed. BANKS IN tt GREAT MERGER. Nine Big Concerns in Pittsburg to Be Com: bined. Pittsburg perfected | of banking inter one « Colonial Nati Company, Pe Columbia N National Bank, and Freehold making i financial institutics and Chicago it concerr.. which pr as the Colonial Trust $7.000.000, undivided profits and deposits, making total 000.000, the shrabl Company, w IOLCO0000 sur 1bout resources of $78 a's os v4 4 4 an rpiu 3 £22 000.000 Hay-Herran Treaty Panama, C y Senator Obard Samuel Quin tero and Maria Jova members of tives, left here gota theif best to obtain Hay-Herran rssjonal delegation thre: said they would do } the ratification of the treaty. The from Panama ators and fou: vor the treaty representative who An influential petitic praying for the a Her-an treaty, is f.artagena. mposed Sent; Hie Lena Cholera Spreads in Luzon. Washington, D. C. (Special) Official advices to the Marine Se a sharp increase of cholera cases in the Philippines since the rainy season.* Many of the cases have occurred in Manila, but &« ranid spread down the coast of Luzon also is reported About half of the Masia ctirred among the crews of the launches and other small craft that ever leave the harbor, could be traced to importation by sea wy iy ce represent the begining of § THE LATEST NEWS Domestic. IWTY 18 tO ret he We nd na sterr Lnaries mmdred and the An ‘ommons without Financial th African g exceeded $12 000.000 59 y ire 2 “Reorganizati en the shelf America’s debt to Europe ig lower now than it bas been for a number of vears. Good estimates put it as low as £060.000,000, Call loans in Wall street fell to the unusvaly low figure of 1 3-4 per cemt Directors of the Northern Central % (ae Others Also Siain. KING ALEXANDER SHOT ONE ASSASSIN, Conspiracy Resulted from King Alexander's and Ha red of 0 Prioce Peter Karageorgevites Pros Choice Arrogaol Lours: Uraga- claimed King by the Assassins ao) Will Be Ratiie! by Parliament Populac: in the Bloody Deed and Sympathy with the New Dynasty. Acquiesces fieers i i $ocls nrm ol ands Hep ¥ Tevet yt ire i he Gocu- $+ 3 ni that oy nrostitute’”’ stateme Powder Plants Comblas. Cal. (Special) ~The during the last Francisco, in progress San regotiations panies by the $20,000,000 corporation re- ceitly organized under the laws of New Jersey by the Duponts, of Wilmington, | Del. are declared by officers of the local companies to have been practically com- pleted. It is expected that all the Cali- | fornia plants will pass into the control | of the Dupont Company by July 1, d degraded Servia and that POWERS MAY INTERFERE. Not Prepared to Recogniz: Assassins — May Demand Punishment. Filipino Outlaw Taken. to Be Hanged. Farthquake Shock in the West oy 5 hetare $ Wa RA ITIES “Species of Slavery and Uslawfal” Sixteen strike Judge Holdom's court poration to be compelled to con ( with a union to have in its employ onl vwiion men,” he said in his decision, a species of slavery and unlawful.” e will be appeaiec SOT 3 The R 1 Cas i Historic Min Dead. Columbia, S. C H. Gibbs, who 1s first of the Sumter, died in this oty gunner in Capt whom General fre nt {Specialy Major W said to have fired the War Major (sihiy shot Civil pon Fort George James Beauregard upon Major aster a was a company, sent the order to open Anderson. He served as postin Columbia under President Cleveland SPARKS FROM THE 2 IRES. + i Twenty Bulgarians were killed in an attack on the village of Yenije, in Pru. nelia, Donations of $400,000 to Columbia University were announced at the com- One of i i erection of a dormitory. A stage traveling between Weaver. ville and Redding, Cal, was held up by two masked robbers, and the passen- gere compelled to surrender their val uables, | | i 1racis THE NEWS, Baer Was in the Rend ement That President Uphe'd Started a Buying Movement Wat! end Pennsylvania Were Taken in ‘he Annour voal Roads Stocks in Stree! Eri Large Blocks, ing CONFESSION OF A BORGIA. fer Brother, His Wife and Child the Victims — Meant No Harm. . Collision on Southern. Va scial ) A between Alexandra, y, derailing both engn molished, together wi D Keys, of rance agent, an of the not i were badly injured. It d here that Kevs' condition 1s « ngineer Mason Saunders, orthbound train, was mjured in ng hatles colored, Royal Medal for WKim. London (By Cable).—~In order non and President Roosevelt in the re- House, King Edward has awarded the royal gold medal for the promotion of architecture to C. F. McKim, the New York architect, who designed the work. Ihe presentation of the medal is fixed or June 22 On the following day a dinner will be given in honor of Mr McKim at the Royal Institute of Brit Juding Ambassador Choate. NATIONAL CAFITAL AFFAIRS. Porto Rico's Large Trade. Rico i 1 Warships Mak: a Quick Ron. ua Saas rye iy 1 iT m C pean ago, assage | Was expelic the battleship Kearsarge aling will proceed 10 Kiel i shape Wa there by Biter in the Departments Service Ce , nee seems to mde to the Washington : been made without a strict minission cles int ystofhce regare ne pubic interest ¢ United States Steel Corporation s the first large concern to make a re sort of its business to the Department - nerce and Labor he draft of regulaticiis for the gen ‘ral staff has been nearly completed [hey make the chief of staff a more wwerful official than the commanding general or the adjutant general unde resent regulations Wiliam CC. Hook. of Leavenworth i been selected to succeed Judge , who recently resigned the air uit judgechip of the Eighth district Judge Peter C. Grosscup, of Chicago od an interview with the President, af ch it is believed the subject of trast: ails of the project for the gen for the Navy were submitted ary Moody. it haz been discovered that the teamer Vera Cruz, which was wrecked ff Ocracoke Inlet, N. C, was a smug tler, Count Cassini referred to his intimacy xith a number of Jews to show that he & not an eoemy to the race, Prof. James C. Monoghan was 3p pointed editor of the reports of the urea of Forei Commerce in the Department of Commerce and Labor Russian government declines to re: ceive any outside aid for families of the victims of the Kishen massacre; not will she receive any ou representa gons regarding the affair,
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