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and the proposed building OF dam in
Niagara river
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The car has invited the shah to visit
him
Pelloux, Italian premier, is seriously
ly i'll.
A Polish opera is to be presented in
Paris
There is slight hope Of Or. Leber's
recovery.
There are severe snow storms in
Switzerland
Herrfurth, Prussian ex-minister OF
interior, is dead.
There is a great strike of coal min
ers at Carmaux, France
There is belief in ST. Petersburg that
Russia soon will take Herat
Cardinal Casetta is likely to succeed
Jacobini as Vicar General OF the Pope.
Socialist deputies declared that Gal
lifet Disseminated in favor of .aristo-
Gratis in the French army
William Ewart Lockhart, Royal
Scottish Academician and famous por-
trait painter, is dead in Paris.
bill authorizing the sale of the
Danish West Indies for 1900, 600 kro-
nan, Is to be offered in the diet
1t is announced that the crown
prince of Japan will wed the Princess
Sadaka, daughter OF Prince Kujo
Governors of several districts in
Russia have asked the government to
remove burdensome restrictions on
Jews
Count Won Buelow introduced in the
reichstag at Berlin bill carrying into
effect part of the arrangement for the
partition of Samoa
Archibald J. Sampson, American
minister to Ecuador. has made a re-
quest to that country for a coaling sta
ton in the Galapagos islands
The German foreign office does not
regard the Nicaraguan canal as occa-
sion for German action, at least not
until the treaty is ratified or rejected
The Brazilian minister has presented
a note to the foreign Office, protesting
against the raid made by the British
forces of Guayana in the Amazonas
territory.
Sir Michael Foster has been elected
to parliament TO represent London
university in succession to Sir John
Lubbock, who has been elevated to
the peerage.
Suspicion is aroused by the fact that
la German gunboat has been taking
soundings of the inner harbor of Ma
Gao, a Portuguese possession, thirty
eight miles from Hongkong,
A tremendous reception was given
Prince Henry on his return to Berlin
from the Asiatic squadron rhe kaiser
made speech, declaring it showed
.Germany's naval ambitions.
Prince Macmillan of Badenat Perren
Of Baden is in Vienna Rumor has 1t
that his betrothal to the Archduchess
Maria Annunciate, eldest daughter Of
the emperor's brother, Carl, is to be
announced soon
British Commissioners Riddle and
Sutherland, who had been engaged in
the demarcation of the Brumo-Chinese
boundary have been murdered in the
Monghem district Consul Litton was
wounded, but escaped.
Signor Tugini, the italian consul,
has notified his government that the
situation in Egypt is grave. especially
in the Soudan. owing TO the active
propaganda against England by Rus
sian and French agents.
Inquiries of the Ecuadorian govern
ment regarding reported negotiations
between that government and the
United States for the sale of the Gal.
apagos Islands nave met with the re-
Spouse that no such negotiations ex-
list
At San Jose, Costa Rica, it is under
stood that President lnglesias is in ac-
cord with President Zelaya Of Nicarag-
ia on the isthmian canal matters, and
heartily approves of the plans Of the
United States as shown in the bill now
before congress.