| Show TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS P The bubonic plague is again epidemic at Bombay General Tschersaieff the conqueror of Tashkend died suddenly at St Petersburg Peters-burg Emperor William will stay two days at Llvadla as the czars guest during his journey to Palestine Andrew Carnegie has offered the town council of Dumfries Scotland the sum of 10000 to build a public library Statement of the condition of the treasury treas-ury shows Available cash balance J271 XX7S5 gold reserve 103760753 The Fifth infantry now at Tampa which was recently ordered home to rort aic Pherson will probably go to Santiago President McKinley has decided that he will review the heroes of Santiago In New York city if his official duties will permit A dispatch from San Juan says that Freeman Halstead the English newspaper corespondent has been released from prison I he General Electric company stockholders stock-holders scaled down the stock bO per cent by a vote of 243141 shares for and 3SOO against The ninth annual convention of the national na-tional association of life underwriters began be-gan at Mlnenapolls with an unusually large attendance A dispatch from Paris says eght deaths from sunstroke occurred in that city According Ac-cording to Berlin advices the German schools have been ciosea on account of the beat It Is asserted that 700 workmen in the allied building trades of St Louis ae out as the result of a strike for better wages Inaugurated some time ago and that the suspension of work may spread The Porter Brothers company of Walnut Creek Cal shipped direct to London England En-gland a carload of Bartlett pears In all 102 boxes The fruit was the finest selected se-lected quality most of it being the product pro-duct of W W Cope of Danville Emperor William has ordered Admiral Von Dederichs commander of the division of the German squadron in the North Pa rlfic to po on the first class Kaiser to Batavia Java in the Netherlands to represent rep-resent him at the festivities there in connection con-nection with the forthcoming coronation of the queen of the Netherlands |
