Show BRIEF TELEGEAMS Queen Victoria and suite started for Nice from London yesterday A nolle prosse was entered In the Debs case at Chicago yesterday The London Daily Telegraph denies that a warrant has been n Issued for the arrest of Cecil Rhodes A warehouse of the Union Ware house company at Louisville Ky burned yesterday Loss 250000 Mrs J K Mizner wife of Colonel J 1C MIzner Tenth United States cavalry cav-alry day died at Fort Assinabolne yester dayThe The Albion Paper company of Holyoke Hol-yoke Mass is temporarily embarrassed ed and a large amount of its paper has gone to protest Pape The seal fishery is being prosecuted vigorously Two steamers left St Johns N F yesterday for these fields taking 8000 men Ior ther A Constantinople dispatch to the Chronicle sa The says Americans are keeping 6000 people barely alive at Marash each with a weekly dole of 3 pence Probably a thousand cattle men are in Fort Worth Tex to attend the annual an-nual meeting d the Texas stock raisers rais-ers convention which convenes there today The Republicans of the Eleventh congressional district held their convention con-vention at Athens 0 yesterday and chose two delegates to the o St Louis dele1ats < te Lu i convention and nominated L D 1 Vickers Vick-ers of Logan county for presidential elector General Charles Grosvenor of Athens was renommated by acclamation acclama-tion for congress Three men are dead and one more i not expected to live a the result of Sunday nights collision on the St Louis Kirkwood electric line Fifty seriously Injured less more are more or les serously By unanimous vote of the fourth district dis-trict Republican convention at Emporia Em-poria Kas yesterday Charles Curtis was nominated for congress and the delegates to SL Louis were instructed for McKinley Melting snow and heavy rains have occurred in he Bernese Oberland The Rhine has overflowed alt Lode and Marteaux Inundating those places Railroad communication to the towns have been stopped A Rome dispatch to the London Daily News says The government has refused the offer of a loan by London Lon-don and Berlin bankers the Italian bankers having offered to supply a loan at a days notice notce Leading members of the A P A o > Omaha are asserting that the order will cut a big figure in selecting delegates to the St Louis convention from Nebraska Ne-braska They are opposing both Senators Sen-ators Mandersan and Thurston A fire yesterday at Pittsburg destroyed de-stroyed a block of ten houses In Aure lius street rendering ten families homeless home-less causing a loss of 50000 Captain Fred Beckett of engine company 16 was seriously Injured by a fall Interesting exercises attended the breaking of ground for the first building build-ing for the new American university the Hall of History at Washington yesterday Bishop Hurst of the Methodist Episcopal church presided The president ha pardoned Nathan Blum convicted in Oregon of smuggling smug-gling and conspiracy but whose sentence was suspended and F 11 Salisbury convicted in Oregon of misusing mis-using penalty envelopes and fined 300 David K Wilson has been renomi nated at Columbus Ky by the Republicans Re-publicans for congress in the Twelfth district which is usually Democratic Watson breaking the record by defeating defeat-Ing Outhiwaite in the political landslide of two years ago The Republican convention of the first Kansas district yesterday renomi nated Broderick for congress The delegates to the national Republican convention were Instructed for McKinley McKin-ley The resolutions adopted declare for both gold and silver Rev W Paxton D D superintendent superinten-dent of the American Sunday school union work for many years was stricken with paralysis Sunday afternoon wih parysf after noon at the Arlington avenue Presbyterian Presby-terian church of Orange N J just as he was about to speak He has been unconscious since the attack and his recovery Is doubtful Chester L Long was renominated for congress Major William M McKinley Mc-Kinley endorsed for president and a strong resolution favoring the free coinage of all American silver adopted by the seventh district Republican convention con-vention which met at Wichita Kansas Long is the present member of congress con-gress having been elected in 1894 over Jerry Simpson James Duggan a wellknown citizen and five other Denverites have left for Seattle from whence they expect to sail March 15 in a party of fifty for Cooks inlet 800 miles northwest of Slka From there they will go overland over-land to the Aaskan gold fields The party goes in a chartered vessel and will carry supplies sufficient for a two years stay A Berlin dispatch to the London Times says Although any reports of the annexing of Lapa or Juemo are premature there is every Indication that Germany proposes to acquire an Island or a mainland harbor on the Chinese coast for a coaling station A Hong Kong dispatch to Vossisclle Zeitung reports that German officers and merchants are surveying likely points for such a purpose In the United States court of appeals ap-peals iat New York Judge Wallace reaffirmed re-affirmed the decision of Judge Townsend Town-send in the suit brought some time ago to test the section of the tariff law which imposes a duty on diamonds About 1250000 is directly involved in the decision and had the government been defeated it would have been neceessary to refund duties to this amount Senator Cullom said last evening regarding re-garding a story as to his probable withdrawal from the race for tire presidential nomination There is not a shadow of foundation for the report The suggestion ould only have been advanced by those who would like to have me out of the way and with the malicious purpose of mislead ing the Republicans of Illinois and the country I have no intention of with drawing and will not withdraw Put that a plainly and emphatically as you can find words with which ito express the Idea |