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TIE Massachusetts, rifle team scored its
third and fourth victories in England by
defeating the London Rifle Brigade at Rain
ham, and the Sussex Volunteers at Brighton.
BY the bursting of an ether retort Drs.
Fricke and BoemeFhave were fatally injured
in DR.. Koenig's laboratory at Munster, Ire.
land
THEODORE ScHMITT, the Dutch Consul at
Hamburg, has failed, with liabilities amount
ing to S3,000,000.
INDEPENDENCE DAY was celebrated in
London, Paris and other European cities by
Americans, and in many other foreign places
by citizens and officials of tho locality. Presi,
dent Carnot, of France, unveiled a replica Of
Bartholdi's statue of Liberty" at lie des
Cygnes, Paris. Addresses were made by
Minister Reid and M. Spuller.
A GERMAN ship has been sent 10 convey
King Malietoa, Of Samoa, back to Apia.
THE English have removed the French flag
from the house Of Sultan Bountonkon at
Grand Bassam, Upper Guinea, Africa.
France claimsa protectorate over the Sui
tan's territory.
The Government of TripoG, North Africa,
has issued decree abolishing the slave trade
The Massachusetts rifle team won its fifth
successive victory In England, defeating the
South London Club at Nunhead by forty
three points in the total.
The Bulgarian Government has con
cluded a loan of ST, 600, 900 with New York
bank.
The Worlds Sunday-school Convention
in London adjourned after deciding TO meet
in America next year.
Two hundred people were made homeless
by fire in Wredenhagen, in the Duchy OF
Mecklenburg GERMANY
Hon. JOHN NoRoUAY, for nearly twenty
years Premier Of Manitoba, died suddenly at
Winnipeg of heart disease, at the age Of
forty-eight.
THROUGH the blunder of q aswitchman eight
lives were lost in a collision on the railway
near Roehrmoos, Germany. Eleven Others
were injured.
THE Egyptians under Colonel Wodehouse
have again defeated the Dervishes, 900 of
whom were killed and 700 deserted or were
taken prisoners.
The village of Ubbendorf, on the Weser
River in Germany, has been destroyed by
fire. The loss is enormous.
SIR SALAR JUNG, z. G. s. l., formerly De-
wan or Prime Minister of Hyderabad, India,
is dead.
REPORTS from Samoa announce that the
natives have disbanded and peace is assured.
A treaty of peace has been concluded be-
tween Metaafa and Tamasese, the rival
aspirants for the Kingship.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, Of Germany, narrowly
escaped being killed by q piece Of falling
glacier in Norway.
FOUR THOUSAND weavers al Jaegerndorf,
Austria, have struck work.
A TREATY has been signed between Japan
and Germany at Berlin. 1t is said to be on
the same lines as the treaty between the
United States and Japan.
THE Pope of Rome is in receipt Of a
petition signed by number Of bishops and
others asking that Christopher Columbus be
canonized ON the anniversary of the dis
covery of America
The Shah of Persia, while in Antwerp on
his way to London, bought $3.50, 900 worth of
diamonds to distribute on his tour.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
passed an act increasing the army to 3,OOO,-
0G0 men.
PRINCE NICHOLAS DADIANI of Mingrelia,
at one time a candidate for the Bulgarian
throne. has just died in the Caucasus, aged
about forty-two years.
A PASSENGER train collided with freight
train near Ciulnita, Roumania. Fifteen per-
sons were killed and many injured. The ac-
man.
THE river Indus, in India, has overhowed
its banks, and tho adjacent country is under
ten feet of water. Forty persons were
drowned at Larkhana.