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Queen Victoria is dead at her Os.
borne house home, at Cowles. Isle OF
Wight. She was almost so years old,
and had reigned longer than any other
monarch in the world.
Verdi, the composer, is seriously ill.
The severest storm on record is re-
ported from Alaska.
A strip of Benton county, Oregon,
may be annexed TO Linn.
A fire at Walla Walla destroyed
S25, 600 worth OF property.
The next Grand Army encampment
will be held at Cleveland, Ohio.
The Venezuela government is trying
to blackmail the asphalt company.
Speaker Reeder, of the Oregon legis-
lature, has announced his committees.
A new pure food law is now being
considered by the Oregon legislature.
A bill is before the Washington leg
islature for the abolshment of fish
traps.
Ex-Congressman George w. Cowles,
aged rs, is dead at his home in Clyde,
N. Y.
A measure has been introduced in
the Oregon legislature to increase the
monument fund to $4,000.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation OF James S. Harlan to be at
torney- general OF Porto Rico.
A new county, named Clearwater,
will probably be created by this ses-
sion OF the Idaho legislature.
John H. Russell, well known the
atrical manager, is dead at the state
hospital at Middletown, N. Y.
Tbs governor of Idaho has recon.
mended a memorial to congress asking
for popular election of senators.
A measure is before the Washington
legislature providing for the purchase
of the Thurston county court house for
state capitol.
Rev. Charles E. Conrad, NJ. D., a
noted missionary, died at Quincy, ILL.,.
aged 81. lie was in Calcutta during
the Sepoy outbreak.
The revenue cutter Grant is to make
a cruise along the coast near the United
States. Canadian line to investigate the
wreckage, OF which so much has come
ashore lately.
West Point cadets agree to abolish
hazing.
Enraged Omaha citizens burned a
pesthouse.
Germans contemplate cable line
around the world.
The naval appropriation bill provides
for four new warships.
Astoria's big export sawmill will be
located at Tongues Point.
The term of duty in the Philippines
may be limited to two years.
Minister WI urges Americans to
enter into trade with China.
Havana citizens petition congress to
lower duty ON Cuban products.
Americas protests against Venezuela
have been defed by that government.
The house will devote most of its
time this week to the appropriation
bill.
British ship Muel Tryvan ioundered
in English channel and II lives were
lost.
T. W. BARLEY, OF Moscow, has been
appointed fish and game warden for
Idaho.
Anarchist plot to kill prominent
Americans disclosed by member in
court trial.
Severe cold weather prevails in
Cuba There has been much suffering
at Santiago.
Count de Lubersac and Baron de
Rothschild fought duel in France in
which the former was wounded.
An Idaho bill for the repeal of the
stringent law against gambling has
been introduced in the house.
The Oregon legislature will be asked
by the managers of the Spokane expo
sition to appropriate 500, 900 for an ex-
hibit at the fair.
Two men, while rowing across Nj
agara river, lost control of their boat
and we're carried into the rapids. One
of them was swept over the falls and
drowned. The other was rescued.
All hopes for the recovery of Queen
Victoria are gone and the announce
ment OF her death is hourly expected.
All members of her family are either
at her bedside or going there as fast as
steam can carry them.
Mayor-Elect Hurley, of Salem,
Mass, will give his salary of 81. 500
to the poor.
Chairman Johnson and Secretary
Walsh will keep national Democratic
headquarters in Chicago open till
1904.
An experiment farm will be started
200 miles from Manila by the United
States Philippine commission for the
growth Of all sorts of seeds and plants
from this country.