, 1913-08-23

New York, Aug. Doth A telegram from
Caracas states that the Government troops,
have captured Coro, after a fierce battle.
The revolutionary Generals, Gonzales and
Urbina, were killed.
colombia has appointed % Minister to
Venezuela, signifying TINT there will be no.
trouble regarding the reported assistance
to the CastroItes by ~Colombians.
A telegram from juneau, Alaska, reports
that the steamer estate of California" from
Seattle for Skagway, struck an uncharted
rock in Gambler Bay and sank in a few
minutes, sixty-eigbt persons being lost
mostly tourists,
Advices from Washington state that in the
first test vote on the sugar schedules, an
: amendment of one cent per pound was lost
by 80 to 81. Four Republicans were absent
who would have voted in favour of the
amendment.
Mr.. Harry Thaw who was acquitted as
the murderer of Mr.. White, the we'll known
architect, and has been confined as a crini-
nal lunatic, escaped from Matteawan pri-
son and has been arrested at Coaticookn
Province of Quebec, as q fugitive from JUS
tice. Opinions differ as to whether he is.
liable to extradition. 1t is believed his
wealth enabled him to dash through an open.
gate and escape i'll a waiting automobile.
london. Aug. 21st-The Duke of West
minister has opened the Olympic Fund with
q donation of one thousand pounds. The
Eabourite organ, "The Citizen, commenting
on this, condemns it when other appeals to
British sympathies are stronger, although
Dukes DO not sign them, and quotes as ex-
amples the Balkan sufferers and the under
paid and uDderfed British wage earners,
women and children, declaring that q time,
when Sucb aDOaala romoiO unonouuoro1 -
is snobbery in sport for Peers to ask for one.
hundred thousand pounds for associations
denying the rights Of mechanics to, be-
deemed amateurs.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick have
called a meeting of their creditors i'll order
to- come to an arrangement regarding
their debts.
The "Daily Mall quotes the Gaekwar Of
Bar0da as. stating that neither himself MOI.
bis wife will attend the marriage of their
daughter to. the son of the Maharuia of
kuch Besar, disappearing of the difference
of castles, which, however, will not prevent
the marriage from taking place.
The Secretary OF the Locomotive Engineers,
Society is taking a compulsory holiday, fol-
lowing the disclosure that expenditures are.
sixteen thousand pounds above the Society's.
income.
Lilo IC6N0feBu Mf~ ClHOrQ LEAFS the.
general public III a protest against the prize,
fighter Johnson appearing at music halls.
The Chimes does not despair of British
participation i'll the Panama Exposition. It.
thinks a reconsideration of the matter is
advisable, although Germany has followed
she example OF abstention, aud says it is un-
to persist in a course which
has been demonstrated to be a biunder. The
reconsideration Of the abstentiou from the.
ST. Louis Exposition is quoted as u precedent
and the autonomous DUminions' exhibitions,
at the Panama Exposition are examples, aud
If not followed, private displays should reme-
dy the official neglect. Similar protests,
against abstention are being made in Ger
many and Austria, bothin public and private.
The King. with a party of eight guns.
shooting over the moors at Balmoral, secur-
ed Que hundred and eighty-two brace, of
which his Majesty secured ffty-three brace.
His Majesty, Lord Rosebery, Princess Mary
and Princes Albert, Henry and George SUBJ
sequently picknicked beside Loeb Muck.
AdVices from Johannesburg state that
gold fields ~rivalling those of the Rand have,
been discovered in the Belgian Congo.
Dispatches from Constantinople state that
Turkey offers to surrender the retaken terri