New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-29
Rneinfes Notites.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER %. 1S9s.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING

FOREIGN.-The United States Peace COM
mission held a morning session. and In the ai.er-
noon called on NJ. Delcasse the Minister OF oi :
eien Affairs General Merritt ana MS
party on the steamer Arcadia passed Port SAID.
= According to a dispatch from Paris tne
Minister Of the Colonies stated that the French
Government would take no steps In the Egyp,
tian question until Major Marchands report had
been received English papers are de-
manding that the full text OF General h'ch-
ener's report from Fashoda be published -
An election will be held throughout the Domn-
ion of Canada to-day on the question or pro,
hibtion - Five lives we're lost In a raiiToau
accident between Pictou and Halifax - "en-
eral Wood appointed Demetrio Castiiio as ms
renresentativc in the country districts of Sant-
ago Province Thomas Joseph Byrnes the
Premier of Queensland. died at Brisbane.
The appontment Of Sir Henry McCallum TO De
Governor of Newfoundland is thought to be pre-
lmnary 10 the fertilization of st. johns -
The Red Cross steamer Comal arrived d.
Matanzas - The house and FURNITURE vi
Emile Zola will he sold TO satisfy judgment
evatnst the author. II is reported tnat
Japan's Minister of Justice will resign
DOMESTIC.-The Democratic State Conven-
ton met IN Syracuse ard adJourneo tiii TO-DAY
sfter a brief session. at which nothing impor-
tant was done; the platform Is expected 10 ig-
more National questions and direct attention 10
State issues; II is Impossible 10 forecast ',e
nominations Secretary Alger returned 10
Washington and made a report on ms ooserVa'
tions IN the Army camps to President Mckinney.
- Thomas r. Bayard died at the nome OF
his daughter in Dedhan,. MASS, - our ihoi
uments TO West Virginia regiments were dedi-
Gated at Gettysburg. - BY powder expio-
sion in St Louis store two women were IA
tally hurt and thirteen persons injured -
The court martial of Chaplain Mcintyre, OF the
battle-ship Oregon continued In Denver. -
Destructive timber fires are raging In the noun
tains Of Colorado. ttf,Nr
CITY.-There was talk of Or. Alexander Con-
nelr' OF London as successor to the late Rev. Dr.
John Hall Colonel Roosevelt was kept
busy at Oyster Bay answering kilograms ana
letters OF congratuation; he is likely TO attend
reception at the Republican Club on Monday
evening The Protestant Episcopal Con-
vention for the Diocese OF New-York opened at
Grace Chapel and was addressed by Bishop Pot
ter on imperialism and current religious and IN
ternational topics - Sales OF wool were
suspended at the Wool Exchange until further
notice - New-York University opened foi
tie fall term with an unusually large enrolment
g. The Board Of Education. disregarding ar
opinion of the Corporation Counsel declined &c
award 10 Brooklyn an extra allowance foi
| schools asked for by the Commissioners OF tina
4 borough - The New-York baseball club wa.
beaten by the Philadelphia club by score OF
to Z. - Winners at Gravesend; Harmonica
Irish Reel, Whiplash, Sir Walter Tom Collins
and Moslem. Stocks were weak and lower
THE Neutrality-suspicious. for to-day: Fair
The temperature yesterday: Highest, "A de
grees; lowest 80: average. 661s