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Show ! FOREIGN BRIEFS. The London rate of discount for the best three months' bills in open market mar-ket is 2 3 per cent. The weekly statement of the imperial im-perial bank of Germany shows a decrease de-crease of 2-2,500,000 marks, A fire was reported raging in Defoe, Franco, on Tuesday burning one quarter quar-ter ol the town; 1oj 50,000. At Donicaster, England, the race for the great Yorkshire handicap waB won by Cartwright'a colt "Albert Edward." Ed-ward." A fight took place at Santos, Brazil, on the 11th ult. between the seamen of a European vessel and the police, in which one seamau and a policeman police-man were killed and several on both sides were wounded. International complications may arise. |