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man won the Czarewitch stakes at
Newmarket
Or. Stoeber, a professor of medicine.
was frozen TO death while ascending
Mount Ararat.
Charles Pollock, a nephew of Baron
Pollock, crossed the British channel
from English to France in a balloon.
Timothy Healy, who has made a BIZ
cycle tour in Ireland. says the dis
tress may approach starvation in some
places.
Mr.. Balfour announced that no
special session of parliament would
be called to deal with the distress in
ireland.
Count Castellane sold the yacht
Valhala after his Norway cruise for
100000 more than be paid for it a
few weeks before.
The Prime of Wales was sponsor
for the young son of the duke and
duchess OF Marlborough, who was
baptized Saturday.
Gen. Ramon Blanco, the new cap
tain-general of Cuba, says he will act
with great energy against the insur-
gents.
NJ. Maertons, a distinguished Rus
sian jurist has been selected as UNI
rire by the British Venezuela arbitra-
ton commission
The social democratic congress at
Hamburg ~abrogated the prohibition
against participation in elections for
members of the Prussian diet.
The Swiss national council has
adopted a bill making insurance
against sickness compulsory for per
sons without independent means.
DR.. Sanarelli, the South American
physician who has discovered what he
believes to be a curative serum for
| yellow fever, will test his discovery
in Brazil.
Spanish anarchists have begun the
publication of a periodical entitled
| Germinal, the word used by Angiollllo,
the assassin Of Senior Canovas, on the
scaffold.
A shepherd named Vacher has been
arrested at Belley, France, and has
confessed killing three shepherds,
three girls and two old The
victims we're horribly mutilated.
The secretary of the federal trades
Of London, comprising thirty indus-
tries, announces that the executive
committee has decided on a strike in
sympathy with the engineers. to begin
on Friday.
Rheinhold Stencil, editor of the
Hamburg Echo, has been sentenced to
eight months in prison for publishing
an assertion that King Leopold, of
belgium, habitually encouraged gamb-
ling.
The queen regent Of Spain has or
dered that assistance be given to the
families of the anarchists executed at
Barcelona some time ago and that
their children be educated at her ex-
pense.
A riot took place at the ministry
of the interior in Rome, where a dele
cation wen to protest against in
creased taxation, Six policemen were
injured and one rioter was killed and
many wounded.
The first general national conven-
ton of the Irish Independent League
vas held in Dublin. Eight hundred
delegates attended, and great enthus-
iasm was displayed. The delegates
shouted Down with Britain"
The sixth anniversary Of the death
of Charles Stewart Parnell was the
occasion of a unique demonstration at
Dublin 5000 nationalist marched
to his grave and heaped it high with
flowers from every county in Ireland.
No crepe was displayed, but in it's
place ivy and shamrocks We're worn,
and the bands played lively airs.
1t was sem-oficially announced in
Madrid that the reply of Spain to the
note presented by the United States
Minister Woodford will say that
Spain is unable TO fix exactly the dase
when the war will be over, but the
ministers are persuaded it will not be
long. The reply further states hat
the pacifcation OF Cuba would have
been o rapid if the rebels had not
had the succor of dlibusters under the
shelter of the American flag.
SPANS reply it is stated, will re-
ject meditation and decline to fix a
Gate for ending the war in Cuba. It
is asserted President Mckinley will
advise the Cubans to accept autonomy,
and that if they refuse he will make
no further efforts in their behalf.
Switzerland has made insurance
against Illness compulsory upon all
save the wealthy.
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