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FOREIGN NEWS.
Catholics and Greeks S Riot
at Jerusalem.
THE NEW JAPANESE CABINET
The Portuguese Cortes Committee
Approves Of a Convention
With England.

Brazil wants Russian immigrants
Ireland will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
Scotland farmers complain Of mice
plague.
Brazil's exports for 1891 are estimated
at $20O,C0O,0O0.
Japan will have Il $500, 900 exhibit at
the Worlds Fair.
II is reported the Rothschilda recently
lost $40, 100000 in speculation.
A pair Of Zulu chiefs are said 10 be the
present social lions in London.
Ex-King MIan's latest gambling bout
resulted in loss Of $4,000 10 him.
The British Parliament proposes to
pass bill TO exclude destitute immi-
grants.
Fifty thousand Jews have been thus
far expelled from 81. Petersburg and
Moscow.
Eight thousand tailors are now idle In
London, and their number IN constantly
increasing.
Thirsty throats in the Congo country
swallow about 81 100000 worth OF fire.
water week.
The population now is about $4,000
in Portugal, ls,0OO,O00 in Spain and
81 900, 900 in Italy.
The Swiss people are preparing 10 cell
ebrate the 60Oth anniversary Of that
hardy little Republic.
The Portuguese Cortea Committee has
approved OF convention with Great
Britain in relation TO South Africa.
The Turkish brigands have released
the prisoners they captured recently by
derailing train. The ransom was paid
Catholics and Greeks at Jerusalem
have been rioting. Turkish troops in
teryened, and several persons were
killed.
The infant daughter of the Duchess OF
Fife il 10 be chrstened Alexandra in
honor of its grandmother, the Princess
of Wales.
Famine prices are said to be prevailing
at lquique, meat selling at 20 cents Il
pound, potatoes at S20 bag and flour at
$50 bag.
The inventor of the s-Edison tor
pedo says it's exhibition has created great
excitement in Europe, whore ii has just
been exhibited.
Sir William Gordon Cumming denies
that there is any truth in the story that
he is TO be married shortly TO Miss Flor
ence Gardner of New York.
Great building operations in Rome
and other Italian cities, begun on the
expanding trade of the past, have been
brought to ignominious collapse.
In consequence of Bolivia's recognition
OF the Chiian Congressional party as
belligerents the Chilian Minister at La
Paz has demanded his passports.
The rumored suspension of Russell Il
Co. of China has been confirmed, in
consequence of "hich the New York,
London and Boston branches have sus-
pended.
The expense OF governing Italy has
increased from $245 900 900 in 1881 to
$3.50, ,000, 900 in 1899. The debt has ad-
vanced from SOFA, ,257 1882 in 1880 to
$2,324, ,S25, ,329 in 1880.
The Duke of Argyll is witness in Il
trial in Dumbarton concerning a certain
cure for rheumatism in consequence of
having given testimonial OF its value
in return for free treatment.
The Japanese Cabinet has been recon-
structed, with Ito as President of Coun-
Gil, Takato as Minister of Public In true
tion, Tanaka as Minister of Justice and
Shingala as Minister of the Interior.
The King of Belgium will soon visit
England, and before he leaves for home
Stanley will probably have told him def
initely whether he will go back to Africa
as Governor of the Congo Free State.
A quarter of million Hebrews are to
be driven out of Russia forthwith. War
saw alone has given 10000 of them no.
tice to depart. There are supposed to
be about 100000 Hebrews in Russia.
The peasant inhabitants of the Tersk
district in Russia blew up with powder
a schoolhouse while it was filled with
children, ten of whom were killed and
twelve seriously wounded.
There is to be presented to the Portu-
guese Chamber a project to sell all the
Portuguese colonies, except Angola, st.
Thomas, Principe and Cape Verde, with
view of redeeming the national debt.
French Anarchists attempted to place
wreaths on the spot where the Varin
Communists were shot in 1871 and near
; the Montmartre Basilica, but the police
prevented them and arrested six of the
leaders.
At Socialistic meeting in Paris one Of
the citizens present moved that the
J death of the Minister of the Interior, NJ
1 Constans, should be voted by the AS
sembly. The President refused to put
the motion te vote.
8 Marie Wilt, the famous retired prime
. donna, has been dismissed as completely
l cured from the private asylum at Eel
8 doff, near Prague, and the free DISPOSE
3 ton over her fortune of 10000 florini