Show WOLCOTT IN FRANCE has an interview with faure meline and others NOT SANGUINE OF SUCCESS prowler premier mating declared that however favorable trance france might inight be to Ili she could do nothing without england and germany sultan declared to be powerless to control fanatics increasing the force of ilia british army ehg tb czars azars way I 1 paris fob feb 4 donator wolcott ot of colorado who la is visiting europe in the ilia interest ot of bimetal ism had an interview yesterday with premier meline tho the correspondent of the associated press learns on authority that his efforts so tar far have been without the result hoped for or by the senator the interview with till president faure on oft sunday was vas shor shorland tand formal and afforded no encouragement to look for a result na M loubet president ot of the senate in ills interview with wolcott 1 Is understood to have expressed himself en cn on oil the subject of bt bl sm but on oil the other hand band premier molina was waa very guarded ile he la Is reported to have said however favor abb france might be to the object sought nothing could be onne done unless the lite consent of ingland england and germany ma was mas s previously obtained in quarters little confidence 1 felt lit in the ultimate success of mr wolcott al though he seems to he be sanguine of england taking part lit in a bimetallic movement AN IMPOSTOR WORSTED king of the letter be 9 agnis lo loses loes es a libel suit I london feb 1 4 in the libel suit brought by cherev george brooks it former Or preacher eacher against ibe st jamess gazette asking for or dar karnagel nagel on grounds similar to tile recent action b hf brought rought li against sir fr henry labouchere editor ot of truth a v verdict c va nas rendered today lit in favor of the gazette eulth costs coats tile tho rev al air jr brooks has been kno it for years as an the king alne ot of the begging letter writers tere for years week meek after week he was waa denounced as aa an impostor in truth and lie finally brought suit fit december last against labouchere resulting in tile the batters lat acquittal it mas shown that brooks within me lc years had secured about by using begging letters and claiming to lie be a deser ning of 0 letters in it great distress in reality brooks had a country house inith servants horses and carriages it 1 Is said that mr fr labouchere has spent in recent years in exposing impostors of this description I 1 HAWAIIAN NEWS I 1 gov government ornament will pay Dan maninges inges char chargeable gealla act 13 a shi ship company 1 llono honolulu lulu jan 27 via victoria fob feb 4 tho hawaiian government 1 announces I lin ounces that although not legally hound bound to do so it will aid the australian steamship company in settling any judgment for cla damages Taxes that may be awarded as the result of the deportation por tation ot of objectionable characters after tile the last revolution it Is stated on what apac api appears ears to be rel reliable lable authority that paul nowman newman who mho recently went to guatemala was wag engaged in it ft secret project for the an nex atlon tion of a laige island IWO 1000 miles off the coast of guatemala ile he found that island won was unclaimed and goorge george D freeth formerly governor of lassan island chartered a vessel in san ban francisco and set sail tor for the unclaimed idland where he will raise the iian hawaiian allan flair flag 0 A spreckels eli son of claus spreckels today announced himself in favor of annexation to tile united states claus spreckels i ls Is bitterly opposed to annexation BRITISH ARMY an aix increase reported to havo have been agreed upon london feb 4 the maraulo or of lansdoune Laus done the secretary of state for war replying in 1 the house of cords today to viscount de cle announced that the government pr proposed to increase the army by men to be composed comp 0 a e d of an a A additional battalion each for the scots 0 guards Cold coldstream stream guards cameron I 1 malta mal is militia and weal indian troies troI ps and 6 00 men for tho garrison arrison ff artillery another neld field lattery battery makinia the full complement of forty live five batteries butt erlei for three army corps ill be also raised three bat battalions of tit the a guards the secretary Sreta ry added will henceforth be stationed abroad mr donelan antl and member for the eastern division of cork asked in tile the commons it if it was wag intended to establish a battalion of oc irish guardy guards mr ale broderick replied in the ne gathe hereupon whereupon dr tanner anti antl member for tile middle divi division lon or oc cork ci ailed led mul amad id laughter laught cr no I 1 iribe bh need apply 1 canadian officials at washington ottawa ottana ont feb 4 sir richord cartright and 11 II L davies ster of marine and fisheries have gone eone to washington abere they are arc to meet leading political men to discuss the tariff allari labor luw lau and other matters aich velch tor for a long time hae been ilia hie subject of friction between canada and at of the united states conservative newspapers denounce dono unco the mission ml salon ridiculing the idea of representatives of a canci came dlan 11 government getting even a hearin gilt at washington they do not RO 90 however how ner alth tilh any expectation of negotiating a treaty rr r settling bottling tile allon labor Is law but solely for thi the purpose nt f haing nn nil imal talk irth ith te men at wash wah wa h inet it on oil matters affecting the interests eat of oc both bolh countries sir ln laurion still and his finist ministers ers havo always contended that canadas come has not been fairly laid clan before the united stolen states and there has ha never been a fair representation made nr C list concessions conces canada inight make i it the united states bould meet her halt half ay both the canadian Can adlon and united states governments they say are arc starting on A new pra era william Is J s military papera berlin feb 4 the Bor berliner liner corre pendent says Emperor awilliam walh un ha has ordered t ord ercil the military papers of his hia grandfather william 1 I to be pub 1 dished in connection with the centenary of hla bin ablith they include a verbatim autograph memorandum of hta his opinions iphil as and proposals regarding the defensive power of germany venezuelans Venezuela ns object st louis feb 4 A special to chii lh republic from carless carapan Ca venezuela pays the th sliming of the guiana boull dary treaty in washington by aln jiter Andi vile of Vene venezuela ruela has pm evoked bitter in ili tha press tho the papers today declare it means a united stated protectorate and ana almost unanimously leery decry the form in which mallch the treaty to la progressing toward ratification A bitterle bitter debate in congress InCon gresi when the convention Is presented to that body for rati fica tion in f fore re shadowed it 19 not doubted how however e ver that president crespo eventually 1 will I be able to make the national legislature do his bidding in the matter of acceptance sultan is powerless new kew Y york k feb C 4 A dispatch to the herald to from con st says tile I 1 nt says it la is foolish to imagine that the cullari can be held responsible for or tho the recent events event in turkey it Is 13 tho the population whom horn A he has hag to consider and that population enn only he conquered by war blitch w alch c cost 0 s it RUSSIM so 90 dt arly in 1873 1878 if lindi endi landor a n ilor any an other country were to begin to irmard flumara any turkish town it would bo be tho the signal for or it a general christ christian Is 11 massacre and nar ian the czars azars wy way london feb feak 4 A A dispatch to tho the standard from rom st petersburg says saya that the measure providing tor for an alteration te ration in the value of 0 tho the rouble lias tog become it a law by imperial ukase without tho the formality of 0 passing through tho the state council A majority of tho the members of 0 the state slate council being opposed it 0 the change chance thus the measure Is 1 legalized in what Is vir lually a constitutional fashion but it it Is ol 01 opposed by it a majority of the economists IT finan elers and by educated people generally generall Bene gen crall rally y broad bread riots kiota in madrid london feb 4 A dispatch to the D dally aily mall mail from madrid given additional details the recent broad bread riots and strikes at madrid and af aranjucz thu tho latter town Is still quiet the th boin hall if 19 strongly guarded by police find and soldiers it 13 1 announced that thirty two were hounded in tile the conflicts conn lct liet neon the authorities and the populace and that many more would probably hae hac been injured but tot for ill ahr forbearance of tho the sold leri who for refrained r inca from fir ng on account of the pr presence q ti of women still and children T everything indicates at present that the worst 1 over oven Ir arriago annulled london fob feb 4 A standard special from paris announced announce a that the judgment in the case of fl the i dr do i wred EL amateur singer alneer against prince adolph do da wrede brother of the austrian at munich upholds the validity in france of the M munich nich decree annulling the marriage of prince d do brode with lime mal done dane end and that she pho hns has therefore lost her case spanish public dissatisfied london feb 4 A dispatch to the st hamem s gazette cassette front from madrid published thin afternoon nays bays tile outline of the cuban reforms made public has hai made a bad Imp impression being as ai aleh I 1 inc too much to cubit cuba |