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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
President Roosevelt has appointed
julius G. Lay as consul general at Can
ton in succession to Robert M. McWade,
removed. Benjamin H. Ridgely, Ameri-
can consul at Nantes, France, was ap-
pointed consul general at Barcelona to
succeed Mr.. Ley.
William H. Althoff, editor of the
News-Democrat at Port Clinton, was
nominated for congress by the DEM
ocrats of the Ninth Ohio district.
The eighth annual convention of the
League of American Municipalities met
in St. Louis for the discussion of the
general improvement and facilitation of
every branch of municipal administra-
ton.
The tuberculosis congress at St. Louis
asks the nations to unite in crusade
against tuberculosis.
The Wisconsin supreme court decided
for the La Toilette faction in the repub-
lican fight, giving the governors ticket
the official place on the ballot.
Prelates from five continents and from
distant islands of the sea participated in
the opening ceremonies of the triennial
general convention of the Episcopal
church in the United States in Boston.
The biennial convention of the Ma
tional Republican League of the United
States opened in Indianapolis, Ind, with
IS states and territories represented by
delegations.
J. Howard Morse was nominated for
by the First Connecticut district
democratic convention. He is a great
grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Samuel A. Cook has withdrawn from
the head of the stalwart republican
state ticket in Wisconsin and is sue
ceeded by former Gov. Edward Scofield.
The stalwarts have adopted the name
National Republican" and their ticket
will appear on the official ballot under
this name.
The international peace congress, in
session in Boston, adopted a resolution
the arrest of all ornaments
and the reduction of fighting forces.
FOREIGN.
Four persons were killed and it is es-
timated that about so were injured, some
of them fatally, in a railway accident
near Llanelly. Wales.
The Japanese tunnel into Port Arthur
was completed on September "a.
Sir Thomas Barclay, a British peace
advocate, says that President Roosevelt
forestalled Germany in calling peace
conference of nations at The Hague.
Russians estimate the Japanese losses
in the recent attacks on Port Arthur at
20 900.
Kuroki's army, which was conducting
flanking movement east of Mukden,
has disappeared, and it is believed in St.
Petersburg that this may indicate i'm
portant action on the part of Oku's
army.
Reports received from different points
in New Mexico show that the loss of life
in the floods that have occurred in the
past week was greater than at first
thought; at least 20 persons persisted.
Japanese scouts become active south
of Mukden and attacked the Russian out
posts, but were repulsed.
A special messenger, carrying Kuro-
patkin's report on the Liaoyang battle
to the car, declares that the main Rus
sian army is centered at Tie pass, and he
thinks big battle at Mukden improb-
able.
Frederic Bartholdi, the famous
French sculptor and the creator Of the
statue of Liberty. died in Paris.
Portuguese troops in East Africa were
ambuscaded by natives and 254 men out
of detachment of 499 killed.
Gen. Stoessel, in report to the car
on the fighting of September 1928. says
10000 Japanese were lost, ard the only
success gained by Nogi was the destruc-
tion of the redoubts guarding the water
works.
The Russian Port Arthur fleet left the
harbor and great sea battle followed,
according to reports from Toxic and st.
Petersburg.
The Greek steamer Kelmentink, bound
from the Black sea for Antwerp, found
cred recently % miles northwes: Of
Ushant. Seventeen members Of the
crew were drowned.