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Gen. Sauss1er, former commander
inschief of the French army, is dead.
Fourteen men we're suffocated while
cleaning boilers in the naval steel
works at Home Court, France.
The international fleet, which has
been making a demonstration in Turk
ish waters, has been recalled.
1t is officially announced that the
Venezuelan incident has been
sealed in accordance with the wishes
of France.
The correspondent of the London
Standard at Kobe, Japan, says that
the Marquis Ito has accepted an APP
pointment as resident general in Ko-
rea.
A train which was derailed near
Gatchina, Russia. is understood to
have had on board $10,000.000 in gold.
1t is rumored that the crown jewels
have been sent abroad.
A most audacious theft has been
committed in church at pescina,
Italy, where the thieves succeeded in
stealing notable work of Luca Della
Robbia, after removing the entire al
tar
The Tangier correspondent of the
Echo dc Paris says that the pretender
to the Moorish throne, Blu Hamara, is
preparing to attack the sultan's troops
with a numerous army near the Al
gerian frontier.
The bomb found on the train at
Saint Nom la Breteche, on which Pres
ident Loubet was proceeding from
Marley with a shooting party, and
which it was supposed was intended
to kill the president, turns out to have
been harmless.
A cable dispatch from London says:
"a dispatch from Rome to the Stand
ard says that after the ceremony at
the recent public consistory the pope,
turning to Or. Henry Joseph Richter
bishop of Grand Rapids, Mich, said:
America will have her turn"
General.
Smallpox has become epidemic at
the University of Oregon. Many stu
dents are i'll and more are being
seized by the disease.
Evangelist William Sunday closed
a five weeks revival at Burlington,
Iowa. He made $500 converts. The
residents donated $4,000 to him.
Prince Louis Of Battenberg has ac-
cepted membership in the Cana
dian Camp, an organization of 700
sportsmen and sportswomen residing
in all parts of the United States.
Thirty-nine sixty-foot new steel mail
cars will be in operation on the lines
of the Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe
within short time About half of
that number are already installed
Z Lyman l.. Pierce of Washington,
for the past five years general secre-
tary of the Young Mems Christian as
sociation, has resigned, to take effect
Dec. 81, on account of impaired health.
Prof. S. Stanhope Orris, professor
emeritus of Princeton university and
one of the foremost scholars in the
United States, died at Harrisburg, Pa.
of paralysis after an illness of three
years. He was 10 years old.
Owing to the scarcity of American
lead and the large demands for the
metal at the present time, it is report.
ed that arrangements have been made
to import several thousand tons from
England, Belgium and Germany.
rector of the United States life-savine
corps, died at his home in Brooklyn
Col. Jones served throughout the Civil
war, part of the time on the staff OF
Gen. G. B. Mcclellan.
A telephone received at Harvard
observatory from Prof. Pcrcival Low
ell of the Flagstaff (Ariz.) observa
tory, who is in the East, says that a
comet was found by Prof, Slipher on
a photograph made Nov. 20.
William L. Kestner, president OF
the board of directors of the Illinois
normal college, died at his home in
Kansas City. He was 81 years old
| and had been leader in the Illinois
| Republican party ever since the Civil
war.
Under the auspices of the Actors
National Protective union, it is an
nounced, a union Of grand opera sing
ers, including both men and women
has been formed in New York with
1S2 members. The union consists Of
the members of the chorus.
Here's a trust that will get you
while you slumber. It will cost lie
| per cent more to sleep on an iron bee
and wire springs after Jan. than il
does now, for the Metal Bed and
Spring Bed associations have decided
to raise the. prices of sleeping para
phernalia. Il.
Fred Pabst, the former president 81
the Pabst Bhewing company and one
of the best known millionaires in wis
consin lis studying agriculture at the
University Of Wisconsin. Mr. Pabst
Il vnn Ivy