, 1908-08-19

last week there were 21O deaths. and cboIo..
is suspected; it certainly prevails in the MO-
vinces.
Winnipeg, Aug. 18th 1t is ant;cinatad
that the government will intervene in the
Canadian Pacific railway strike.
New York, Aug. 15th-Despatches from
Toxic state that kilograms received in that
city from New York mention a Chino-Am-
erican alliance, as being discussed in the
United States to offset Japan's alleged bel
ligerency; but the japanese newspapers
deprecate their acceptance, and also Of
such expressions as Count Okuma's, assert
ing that President Roosevelt is making
a naval demonstration against Japan. Count
Okuma is described as a doctrinaire without
influence, and his expressions are regarded
as merely a retort to Representative Hobson's
speech at the Democratic Convention, quot
ing President Roosevelt as predicting a war
with Japan, The American publications
referred to are the New York Herald's agita-
ton based upon an interview with the Chi
nese Minister to the United States, which
vas purely hypothetical talk and not known
to have reference to actnalities.
Atelegram from Lima states that MissAnnie
Peck, of Providence, Rhode Island, with her
Alpine guides, in an ascent of Mount Huasca-
ran, reached an attitude of 25 5000 feet.
eclipsing the previous record by Graham of
% 800 feet in the Himalayas.
General RolandO, upon being questioned
regarding q telegram from Panama, asserting
that he is promoting a revolution in Venezu-
ella, denies the statement, and declares he is
q MIN Of peace. The Dutch nation is i'm
pressed By the Curacao correspondence
describing the replisais against the VenezH.
elan Consulate there. The newspapers edito-
rally oppose arbitration and urge a firm and
independent procedure.
London, Aug. 17th-T0 the cricket match
Played at Lords, II. C. c.. and Ground V.
Gentlemen of Philadelphia the former scor-
ed in their fest innings 1874, aud their second
2z1, and the latter 1877 and PA.
Mr.. Cartwright, the British Minister at
Munich, has been appointed Ambassador at
Vienna, Vice Sir Edward Goschon, who goes
to Berlin, and Mr. PaSet, Minister at Bang
kok, succeeds Sir Gerard Lowther as Minis.
ter at rangier.
MI. Kier Hardie has started for the United
States Oh a mission to n~malgamate the
Socialists and Trade u~njonists into a political
party like the British Labourites.
The army airship NaiII Secundus, when
returning to marlborough alter an ascent,
was caught BY the wind on her broadside
and capslzed; Colonel Capper and Mr.. Cody
jumped out uniDjured, but the balloon was
torn and the propeller injured. Repairs
have been effected.
Mrs. Waldo Sibthoran has bequeathed the
income of four thousand pounds to be dist1i~
buteo as dowries to brides annually from
Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, and a star of sap
phires to the south Kensington museum.
Mr.. Winston Churchill, addressing a meet
ing of miners at Swansea, deplored the wild
language of those who were spreading the
idea of an Anglo-German war. The sole
result, he said, of such a conflict, would
be an appalling disaster, but referring to the
suggestions that the colonies would be seized,
the destinies Of Canada, Australia South Afri-
ca and India were, he declared, unalterabte
by any European struggle. Germans and Bri-
tons, he continued, have nothing to fight
about, no prize to fight for and no place to
fight in, and he doubted if the Germans who
were seriously contemplating such a hellish
and wicked crime as attacking England were
as many as ten thousand.
Nevertheless the alarm is general although
least among the best informed. Mr.. Arnold
White IS the most prominent alarmist. Adj
mlral SIR Cyprian Bridge gives credit to
Germeny's aggressive disposition, but is
calmly confident that England is prepared.
Mr.. Keir Hardie, before sailing. said the