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NEWS IN BRIEF.


ly and quickly by making single cross.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Britannia and Vigilant race again
tomorrow.
The Yale athletics arrived from Eng
land, Saturday.
National Convention of WOmens Re
lief Corps will be held in Pittsburg, next
month.
More than one-fourth of the City Coun-
Gil of New Orleans are under indictment
for bribery.
The House is discussing the project OF
S2OO,OO0 government exhibit for the
Atlanta, Ca, exposition.
Col. W. G. Veazey, who was overcome
by heat in Washington, recently, has
gone to Nova Scotia for rest.
There is much excitement among Pop
ulists of Indiana. caused by the arrest of
four of their leaders for holding a po-
litical meeting on Sunday.
War in Corea has practically put q
stop to emigration of Chinese to Canada.
Departmental reports show only three
arrivals at Victoria, B. c., last month.
Coxeyites, camping in Virginia, re-
fused to leave that State in obedience to
the Governors orders, and were driven
from the State by the Militia.
The great Anarchist trial, in Paris
ended Sunday in the aquittal of all the
30 defendants on the charge of anarchy
Three of the prisoners, however, were
found guilty on other charges.
Strikers, numbering with their fami-
lies 5000 persons, will be evicted from
bn Dnll Ina NJ Dt,1l
man, this 10 make room for the new
men. Most are now on verge of starva-
ton.
Some of those able counters who made
that Endorsement of the Admlnistra-
tom possible in Alabama should have
been employed in Tennessee, where the
Democratic majority shrank this week to
a shadow of its usual proportions.
Twenty-Five hundred American Rail
way Union men in Minnesota alone, who
went out in sympathy with the Pullman
workers, find that they cannot get back.
Meanwhile Debs is escorted by brass
bands to fill lecture engagements.
Intense heat has almost ruined the
grain in several Western states. Rain
fell in some of these States, Saturday,
but in many cases too late to effect the
crops. Hundreds are being driven from
western Kansas by total failure of crops.
The oath-bound conspiracies, the
tarring and feathering, and other forms
of violence reported from Colorado are
the natural consequence of electing law
less men to public Office. The chief
cause of the trouble is bloody brides
| Waite.
A poll of Woodford, KY, an adjoining
county to Fayette, Col. Breckinridge's
home county, shows that Owens will
carry the county by about 300 votes.
With Fayette, WOodford and Bourbon
against him Breckinringe is certain of
defeat.
The scheme to stop the employment
of married women as school teachers in
Milwaukee has failed. The school
board has decided that married women
ought to know Just as much about the
management of children as if they were
old maids.
At the Semi-Annual Convention of the
Loom FiXers of New England, in Lowell,
Mass, it was resolved that, under no
circumstances, will the Loom Fixers
teach the trade to any new man for
twelve months. Too many men in the
business is the reason.
The Nancy Hanks 2.04 track has two
more worlds records. Boreal, yester-
day, won the $4,000 two-year-old futur-
ity, for which the first money is $500,
and made the two-year-old colt record of
2.l7t The three heats in in this race
were also the fastest three heats ever
trotted by two-y -year-olds, 2.203, 2.21, 2.174.
The Denver Republican, which was
foremost in urging woman suffrage in
Colorado, now notices with alarm that
a great many Intelligent and accom-
plished women hesitate to exercise
their privileges. This Is what was to
have been expected. There will be no
hesitancy at the other end.
The tariff smashing programme of the
| Democrats has imposed heavy loss upon
the Fall Ri 5er spinners and weavers, in
| the two cut-downs in wages which it has
necessitated. And there is so good tariff
reform authority as the RostOn Herald
for the statement that rise in wages is
directly opposed to the principle of free
trade.
The Chinese treaty ratified by the
Senate Yesterday provides that for the
period of 10 years the coming of Chinese
! iaborers to the United States shall be
absolutely prohibited, except under con-
ditions specified. The United States
recognizes the right of the Chinese gov
ernment to enforce registry regulations
similar to those of the United States
against all American laborers, skilled or
| unskilled, in China.
Kokoma, Ind, is in great danger from
runaway gas well. A torrent OF
water and gas pours forth and has formed
a lake in the centre of the city. The gas
escapes through the water, and keeps it
seething like a cauldron. Above the
water is huge volume of flame, sway
ING with the wind. Everything in the
vicinity is threatened. Experts say that
the flow cannot be stopped, but that it
will require several years to exhaust it
self.