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FOREIGN FLASHES.
Ex-King Milan Preparing to
Overthrow His Son.
THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY.
The Amount Of Property in London
Insured in Fire Insurance
COmpanies-Etc.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY.

Swiss Anarchists are TO be expelled.
Russia may build a railroad to the
Arctic Ocean.
One.sevcnth Of the land owners in
Great Britain are women.
London Anarchists claim TO have allies
IN the army, navy and police.
Fifteen Anarchists will be tried at Bar
celona Tor the tendiaIi bomb outrage.
The influenza il epidemic in Hesse,
Germany, 1000 cases being reported.
OF this years Russian conscrption Of
252 ,592 men only One-iourth can read Or
write.
President Carnot is charged with not
wanting a new Ministry created for
awhile.
The betrothal Of the Czarowitz of Rus
sia to Princess Helene OF Orleans is inn
minent.
The niece of John Morley has been
converted to Catholicism, and will enter
convent.
Influenza is stated to be raging terribly
in Birmingham, and smallpox is also
prevalent.
The delimitation of the frontier Of
Ecuador and Peru will be submitted to
arbitration.
Friendly negotiations between Hon
duras and Nicaragua have been tempora-
rily disturbed.
There are indications that the phys
| iCal force party in Ireland intend resum-
ing operations.
Emperor William is said to be negoti-
ating for the purchase OF the American
sloop yacht Vigilant.
The war Office OF England has directed
all Sergeant instructors of volunteers to
attend foot ball matches.
In some parts of England barbed- wire
fences are still classed as nuisance, and
their use is forbidden by law.
The new French Ministry had bare
majority OF thirty-one in the first en-
gagement with its opponents.
Acertain Peruvian heiress paid Worth
| S24 900 for gown trimmed with lace.
Of this sum $23 900 was for the lace.
Great swarms OF locusts are devastat-
ing the country around Bloomfontein,
the capital OF the Orange Free State.
Instead of using hair cloth an enter
| prising Partisan dressmaker has stiffened
the skirt of a ball gown with aluminium.
In spite of the notoriously bad condi-
ton Of the Italian finances the civil list
of the country is the largest in Europe.
Jerusalem has been modernized bv a
railroad, and now concession to estab-
lish water works is being demanded.
The Hungarian vintage of the present
year has turned out the worst since the
appearance of the phylloxera and pero-
nospora.
1t is rumored in London that the de-
ticiencies in the Bank of England are
about to be brought to the notice of Par
| Lament.
Last year according to the statistics
recently compiled 24,000 men and Is, ZOO
women left Japan to find homes for
themselves abroad.
All citizens OF Ecuador now in Peru
have been placed under German prOtec-
lection, owing to the departure of the
Ecuadorian Minister.
Iron visiting cards are among the lat
est novelties in Germany. Forty placed
one on the other are said to be- only one
tenth OF an inch in thickness.
A Marseilles (Francel cable from a
large importer OF Russian wheat said !.
"Wheat very depre>s sed because OF large
stocks and likely to continue so."
During the last year the property in
London insured by fire insurance COM
panies and the underwriters at Llovds
amounted to more than $400, 100000.
1t is reported that Milan, ex-King of
Servia, is preparing coup to overthrow
his son, King Alexander, again ascend
the throne and fill his own exhausted
purse.
Sir Thomas Esmond, NJ. p, is conduct
ing crusade against the English lam
guage in County Cork, Ireland. The
effort is to make the English language
unpopular.
The banking house of Du Fresno, one
of the oldest established banks in Flor
ence, Italy, has supended payment. En-
etaz, the manager of the bank, commit
ted suicide.
The Lord Mayor of London is manag-
ing a subscription for the benefit of the
sufferers from the dynamite explosion at
Santander, Spain. Lord Rosebery sent
check for $125.
Lord Charles Beresford's proposal that
within the next four years Eng land shall
expend &lS,000,0O0 upon the navy has
been received with friendly criticism by
the Liberal press.
The United Press correspondent in
Paris has been authorized to contradict
fatty and finally the report that the di-
vorced wife of Edward Parker Deacon is
about to marry again.
The following Italian Ministry has
been formed: Zanardelli, Premier and
Minister of the Interior; Baratlori, For
eign Affairs; Forts, Public Works; San
Mariana, War; Racchia, Marine; Coce-
ortu, Husbandry; Riseis, Posts and Tel
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