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memory of his wife. He made also
other considerable charitable beouests
"A, Musson, the well-known iournal-
Isl ol ParlsrfQught duel with swords
WIFI Aas dupont, a supporter of Drey-
rus sTevlsf0ns M. Dupont was severely
wounded, his adversary's weapon
piercing his lung.
Fart OF Red Rock Mountain, accord
ing 10 dispatch from Airola, vii
lage OF Switzerland, Canton of Tisino.
has lialen into Airolo, destroying
hotel and several houses. Three per-
sons were injured.
Tne new Filipino cabinet is as fol-
lows President of the Cabinet and
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senior
Mabini; Minister of War, Senor Lu-
ma; Minister of the Interior, Senior
Araneta; Minister of Agriculture and
Commerce, Senor Buncamino; Min
lister of Public Works. Senor Canon.
A Berlin cablegram says that EN-
peror William and the members of the
imperial family followed their Christ
mas observations. In the evening, the
Emperor, while taking his solitary
walk in the neighborhood Of the San
Souci palace at Potsdam, entered free
ly into conversation with the soldiers
and workmen, giving them Christmas
presents.
King Humbert has signed a decree
amnestying or reducing the punish
ments of the rioters who took part in
the disturbance last spring. About
seven hundred persons who were SEN
fenced by court-martials and about
two thousand who were condemned
by the civil courts have been liberia
ted, but all recidivists or habitual
criminals have been excluded from
the benefits of the decree. II
According to a London cablegram
the Venice correspondent of the Lon
don Times says: don Carlos, who is
in perfect health, desires me to deny
absolutely the report that he contem-
plates abdicating On the contrary, he
says, he is more resolved than ever to
fulfill his role to the end He author
ICES me to assert that he has asked no
audience to the pope, and has request
ed nothing else of His Holiness"
Captain Pithie, which sailed for Lon
don from Hong Kong has been
wrecked on a rock. Part of her crew
has been saved and landed here. The
captain, the chief officer and the sec
ond and the fourth officers are miss
ing. The British steamer Glenovan
hailed from Glasgow and was 1912
tons register. She left London Octo-
ber 2 for Kobe, Japan, and sailed from
Shanghai for Hong Kong on Decem-
Der 4.
Foreign bankers have declared ster-
ling exchange rates sufficiently low
to permit of the importation of gold,
and it was not unlikely that some
more would come in January; that
imports really depended now on the
rates for money here. If there'>was
need for the gold here, some would
undoubtedly come. 1t will sbe easy,
the bankers say, to bring in $50, 0,000,
600 in gold if any such sum were
needed.
At meeting of 1000 members of
the League of Patriots held in Paris,
it was decided, in view of the situa-
ton created by the Dreyfus founder
of the original League of Patriots.
Paul de Roulede, member of the
chamber of deputies for Charente,
and founder of the original League of
Patriots and himself one of the most
active opponents of the Dreyfus oppo-
sition, was elected president Of the.
new league.
The Paris correspondent of the
Times gives an interesting account
this morning of the way in which
Emil Zola escaped to London, after the
sentence imposed upon him last July
in the. trial on the charge Of libel
brought against him by M. Perroux,
managing editor of the Aurore, by
the officers of the Esterhazy court
martial. According to M. de Plowitz,
M. Zola has lived at various places in
England quietly ever since. 1t ap-,
pears that his Paris friends had the
greatest difficulty to persuade him tor
seek refuge in England, the course
they considered best for the Dreyfus