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TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
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TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

quhar as commandment at Norfolk navy
yard.
A new cabinet has been formed in
Venezuela, with Senior CalcanO at the
head, with the foreign portfolio.
John King and his vile. an aged
couple, were killed by their drink.
crazed son at Southbridge. Mass.
fhe mill situation at Fall River,
Mass, has been greatly simpllied, as a
combination OF stock is likely soon to
be effected.
Bourke Cochran has advised Piesi.
dent Mckinley to tender his good
offices in the settlement Of the Trans
vaal muddle.
Harry Metzler, l2 years old, was
washed from a taft by a passing steam
er and drowned in the Willamette at
Portland, Or.
The mammoth new Oceanic, the big
gest vessel in the world, arrived in
New York, six days and two hours
from England.
New York and Boston capitalists
will form livestock combination with
a capital of $50, 900, 900 to control the
cattle business
Attorney General Black burn has de-
cided that game warden cannot grant
permits to hunt game out OF season for
scientific purposes.
The Earl Of Yarmouth, who has been
spending the summer at an Atlantic
resort will go on the stage. Charles
Fiohman has engaged him.
The troops quartered at the Presldio
in San Francisco now number nearly
$4,000. This number includes 5000
returned from the islands and awaiting
muster out.
Emile Zola has published a protest
against the Rennes' verdict, in which
he shows conclusively the weakness of
the prosecutions case before the eyes
Of the world
The commissioners OF Clallam ooun-
ty, Washington, have appealed to the
secretary of the interior 20 modify the
boundaries OF the Olympic reserve
Four hundred and fifty thousand acres
Of agricultural land is included in the
reserve.
The Filipinos have made their reply
to our offer Of autonomy. The dOcu-
ment repeats Arguments contained in
recent appeal to the powers foI reoog.
milton. 1t further says that the race
prejudice of the Americans is to blame
for the hostilities.
The Civic Federation conference on
| the uses and abuses of trusts and COM
binations opened in Chicago with
representative men from nearly every
state in the Union in attendance.
Governor Tanner and Mayor Harrison
each delivered an address cf welcome.
Recent incendialy fires in Paris are
attributed to anarchists.
The revolution in Venezuela under
Castro is gaining strength.
Director Merriam, of the census, ad.
vises enumerators to do some studying.
Cornelius Vanderbilt died suddenly
at his home in New York OF paralysis.
Bush negroes of Jamaica have re-
Iapsed into savagery and gone upon the
warpath. i
The great council OF Improved Order
Of Red Men opened in Washington with
1000 delegates present.
Some of Aguinaldo's officers are tired
of fighting for the Filipinos' cause and
will seek capture by the American
forces.
The yacht Narno has arrived a;
Honolulu on trip around the world
She left New York four years ago anG
has made nearly 10000 miles.
Oakland CAL, has accepted the offer
Of Andrew Carnegie to give $50, 900
for public library building, and will
gurantee the necessary $4,000 year
for its support.
The Portland chamber OF commerce
will send Senator Simon to Washing
ton to push recognition in the matter
of embaTkation Of troops for the Phil.
ippines from that port.
At Tuckahoe, N. Y. Terry McGov-
ern, an American pugilist whipped
Pedlar Palmer, an English batam. in
the first round, and wins the title of
champion in this class.
Secretary Ray, OF the interstate COM
merce commission, who has been in
Hawaii investigating the labor situa-
tion, says he is Of the opipion that the
solution of the labor problem there is
the employment OF free white labor.
Chairman Van Horn. of the Canadian
Pacific, says the Canadian Pacific is
anxious to establish great steamship
line between Liverpool and Halifax to
take business away from New YORK
lines, and expects to receive subsidy
from the Canadian government,
William H. Bodwell, we'll known
printer, ex president of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, died at
Whitehall. N. Y +, aged 81 years.
An imperial ukase has been issued
establishing a system of education for
the children of the nobility in Russia,
largely at government expense.
Salvation Army folks are forbidden
to use trumpet, drum or tamboriue in
the streets of Philadelphia, and speech
only is left to them in their public
worship.