, 1908-09-30
ST. CROIX STATION

LONDON, Sept. 29th-Lord :Fweedmouth
has resigned the Presidency of the Council
o. account OF III health. 1t is. stated that
his naentai condition has improved. A par
tial reconstruction of the Cabinet is expect
ed.
A newspaper census of the unemployed
Shows the number is alarming, and worse
than for many years, and the Government is
I 6 )nsideiin ms measures for relief. In Glasgow
THE are twenty two thousand, Sunderland
thirteen thoisdnd, liverpool fourteen thou
SaBd and similar humbersin many other cities,
The Eancashifg COTTON strikers and london un-
employed not included distress funds have
been st rfed.
The Milan correspondent Of the 'Daily
Chronicle states that Dorando, who SO
3early won the Marathon race, will run
against the winner, Hayes, at New York.
A telegram from lie Mans announces
4hat Mr.. Wilbur Wright few for over
s;xty-seven minutes, a distance of forty eight
kilometres, and carried a passenger over
eleven minutes, both records.
A despatch from Dusse dorf reports that
. balloon carrying two officers collapsed at
a height of six thousand feet and fell to two
thousand feet. when the bag formed a para
chute and required ninety minutes to fall
the remaining distance, the officers escaping
nnhurt.
The Berlin banker Herr Sampson has be-
queathed thirty million marks to thePrussiaa
Academy of Science for scientific purposes.
England has, notified Bulgaria that she
regards her action in connection with the
Oriental Railway as telegraphed yesterday
as indefensible. Telegrams from Sofia state
that both Austria and Germany have pro-
tested, and Bulgaria answered that it was
SnY,ccsihlo tn Torporo tho po4fopol u;Ii hut
the Government Would safeguard the nate
rial interests of the railway. It is under
stood that Turkey is willing to arbitrate.
AdSiees FROM ST. atarshnrg state thatstha~
Sanitary situation is improving. The total
number of deaths from cholera in the city up
to the present is announced as LOTS and in
all Russia 1902 out of l5, 683 cases reported.
M. Stolypin has censured the Mayor for the
condition of the the hospitals, which were
inadequate without reference to the cholera,
and has asked what remedial measures he
proposes to take.
The Students at the st. Petersburg Uni
versity have postponed the strike against
the repression of liberalism by the new
Minister of Education, whose action is disap-
proved by the Douma and the Cabinet. M
Schwartz. the Minister concerned, will pro-
baby resign.
Germany has expressed to France her
regrets that anything blemishes the
Franco German entente regarding Morocco
This refers to the protest of the German
Consul at Casablanca against the French
arrest of German deserters from the foreign
legion, alleging a violation of the Consular
asylum.
Dispatches from Picking announce the
arrival there of the Dalai Lama of Thibet,
after wandering over \ ortherD China since the
British fought their way into Lhassa in
1907. thus desecrating the Holy City. The
Chinese government is embarrassed and de-
sires him to return to Thibet. where his pre-
sence is necessary for reforms.
a Buenos Ayres despatch states that the
Chamber has approved a loan of IT, $780, 900
dollars gold and that the Government is ne
gotiating for the admission of Argentine