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Rio Janiero.
Chinese rebels again attacked the
Manchurian railway.
An danger from the recent great
storm in the Ohio valley has passed.
United States officers have begun
war on the Chinese slave trade IN San
Francisco.
The Philippine tariff is not likely
10 be promulgated until insular cases
are decided.
Joseph Hume, the pioneer salmon
packer Of the Pacific coast, Is dead at
Berkeley, Cal.
The people OF Santo Domingo will
have nothing to do with annexation
90 the United States.
Province oi Leyte has been created
In the Philippines and American
officers placed in control,
Leading stove manufacturers will
form combine for mutual benefit IN
the way Of freight rates, etc
Manufacturers Of mining machinery
will combine 10 protect themselves
against the Westinghouse Company.
The Corean government has decid- |
ed TO borrow from France 5000 600
yen for the purpose Of constructing q
railway.
Charles Brown, president, and Il.
l.. Candy, cashier, of the suspended
First National Bank OF Vancouver,
committed suicide.
A rock was thrown through the
window oi car on the Portland.
Astoria train. Several passengers
narrowly escaped injury.
The Twenty-sixth regiment which
arrived in San Francisco on the trans
port Garonne, has landed and gone
; into camp at the Presidio.
The German riechstag has passed
hill which prolongs authors vights
on dramatic and musical produc.
tions from 30 TO 30 years,
An attempt was made 10 poison
prisoner in the county Jail at Denver
Col. An apple pie and some cheese
we're left at the Jail by an unknown
person for the prisoner, Examina.
ton revealed the fact that both con.
tained great quantity OF arsenic and
other poisons.
Another rebel force in Martinique
has surrendered.
Cebu, Philippine islands, has not
yet been pacitied.
An English company is building
railway across Mexico.
Prospectors at Nome were starting
for the hills in January.
The steamer Ramona blew up near
Victoria, b. c., and four people were
killed
General Miner makes discourag.
ing report on conditions in South
Africa,
The transport Lawton has reached
San Francisco and the Garonne was
reporte d at Honolulu.
Rockhill's plan for the abolishment
VI thiN AEhhk ~ nNo NSNtFhNN
by the ministers at Pekin.
The treasury department purchased
$3.50, 600 of short term 4 per cent
bonds ut the rate of 1880.
A blizzard in southwestern Mis-
souri, has done great damage to prop.
erty. Practically all outside business
has been suspended.
Martin Ritter, who killed Clara
Cheek at Nashville H., with ham
mer, because she refused to marry
him, has been captured.
DR.. Rupert Blue, United States
marine surgeon, on duty at Milwau
kee, has been ordered to proceed with
out delay to San Francisco.
Alonzo ]. Whitman, formerly stat
senator from Minnesota, convicted o
passing bad check, was sentenced
to two and half years imprison
ment.
Fire at Birmingham, Ala, des
troyed street car barn, containing
35 cars, the Third Presbyterian churcl
and the parsonage and half a blocl
of cottages adjoining, Loss, $5, 900
The Union Iron Works of Sal
Francisco signed contract with tn
navy department for the construction
of the protected cruiser milwaukee,
She is to have % knots speed, to b
finished in three years, and to COS
80, 1876, 600.
Work on target to cost abou
$50, 600 will be begun at the BrooklyI
navy yard shortly. The target, whic
is to test the relative strength OF th
Gathmann torpedo gun and the regu
lar army IL inch rife will duplicat
"a section OF the battleship Iowa.
There are 100 different language
or dialects in the Philippines.
The postoffce department is NAL
ing plans to obviate the necessity {
,rehandling European mails at Ne
York.
Autograph letters Of famous me
will be far rarer In the future tina
now. Great men of today cOnter
themselves with signing their name
often with rubber stamps, to typ
written documents, and 1t will b
hard to get much sentiment from typ
written manuscripts