Gov. Carter tnok the oath of office at
Honolulu and wasr formally inaugurated:
'governor of Hawaii.
A flood in the Palar river destroyed
half of the town of Vanizambadi, India,
and 200 peisons were drowned.
Princess Alice, wife of Prince Freder
ick Ernst of Schoenburg-WaldenCurg, Is
said to have eloped with her coachman.
A decree was issued at Cartagena set
ting forth that no steamers shall be al
lowed to clear from Cartagena for Colon
or enter Cartagena coming from Colon.
Emperor William has directed the
German authorities to officially lecognize
the Republic of Panama.
It is said that Japanese warships have
been sent to intercept the two Russian
battleships bound for Port Arthur.
The Norwegian steamer Victoria was
stranded during a storm off the port of
Stavanger, Norway. Eighteen persons
were drowned.
Dispatches from Puerto Plata say that
the city of San Domingo has surrendered
to the revolutionists and that President
Wos Gil and his ministers took refuge
on board a German warship.
The Chinese emperor has been in
formed by the governor of Chi Li that he
is prepared to declare war on Russians
in Manchuria.
IATBBT~
A nitroglycerine tank at Miller,
Ind., exploded, killing Albert Hoen
shes and fatally injuring Charles L.
Potter and A. Fisher.
Mrs. Silas Brockin was burned to
death in her home in Murfreesboro,
Tenn.
The official majority of Gov. Cum
mins of Iowa is 59,614.
The strike of the employes of the
Chicago street railway has been settled
and the men returned to work.
Charles Long-, a well-to-do farmer at
Litchfield, Minn., committed suicide
by shooting- himself in the neck with
a shotgun.
The combination to control the price
of turkeys in Chicago was broken.
