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Show THE LATEST FOKIEGN NEWS Ue Giers Has an Interview With Emperor William Other Notes of Interest. Behu.v, Nov. 24.- De Giers, the Russian foreign minister, was received this morning by Emperor William. The conference lasted twenty minutes. Nothing is known of what transpired, but It is believed nothing further fur-ther than the u.-ual courtesies. Subsequent to the interview with the emperor, De Giers breakfasted with Von Caprivi. RUSSIA INVADES CHINA And the Mongolian Empcrur AVill Probably Prob-ably Have to Submit. Sax Fraxcisco, Nov. 24. Victor Schmidt, who has been around the world in the interest inter-est of the Austrian department of agriculture, agri-culture, and who arrived yesterday on the steamship China, states that a report reached Yokohama before the steamer left, that a body of Russian troops had crossed into China by the way of Siberia. Sibe-ria. The trouble originated over disputed boundaries, and while war between the two countries is not looked for, the general impression im-pression prevailed that China would lie compelled com-pelled to make number of territorial concessions. con-cessions. Kews from China. Sax Fraxcisco, Nov. 24. The steamship China has arrived, bringing advices that all is quiet in the disaffected districts of China; the government is raising money to pay the indemnity demanded by the powers, and it is now thought there will be no more rioting. W. II. Forbes, manager of the American house of Russell & Co. before its bankruptcy, bank-ruptcy, arrived on the steamer and thinks the prospects good for the restoration of peace in China. - The Japanese steamer Minetnaru 'eft for a twenty-four-hour trip October 30, and has not Jbeen heard from. Prince Kuni Asahiko, connuctor of Diviue services in the imperial Japanese family, died November 5. Awful Cyclone in liurmah. Loxdox, Nov. 24. The Bankok correspondent corres-pondent of the Standard telegraphs an account ac-count of the terrible destruction wrought by a cyclone which swept over that portion of the conntry, wrecking thousands of buildings build-ings and causing great loss of life. The correspondent cor-respondent says that the towns of Capia and Bandon were practically destroyed and three hundred people killed. The Strike of the French Miners. Paris, Nov. 24. There is no doubt now that the strike of the miners in the Pas des Calais district is general. Of forty thousand miners anly one hundred are at work. A number of meetings were held at various places in the department which degenerated into riots. Many bitter threats were made agatnst the mine owners. The Threat of Belgian Labor. Brussels, Nov. 24. The delegates of the various labor organizations decided that unless the government shortly fulfilled its promise to grant universal suffrage in Belgium, Bel-gium, that they will again begin s general strike. Three Children Suffocated. Paris. Nov. 24. Three children belonging to an English family named Trump, were suffocated in their home in Rue Dominique by a red-hot stove having set tire to the bedstead bed-stead in the absence of the chlklrens' parents. Edward, Eord Lytton, Head. Paris, Nov. 24. Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, earl of Lyttou, the British ambassador ambassa-dor to France, died suddenly today from heart disease. |