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Show Brief Cable Flashes. A sensation has been created in Rome by the declaration of the pope to the foreign powers that he does noi feel secure iu Rome. General Booth has nominated his daugh-tpr, daugh-tpr, Marschal Booth, to succeed him in command of the Salvation army. The general says, "Women "Wom-en are the best rulers." The publishing house of Justus Perthes of Gotha will this year resume the publication of the "Bevoelkerunjr'der Krde." This notable work was lirst issued in Sir Henry Wood, English commissioner to the World's Fair, says that the citizens of Chicago would by their private mimiticenee supply any lack of funds necessary to make the exhibition a thorough success. . . Dr. Walter Kemster, L'nited States government govern-ment immigrant commissioner, is in London after af-ter a tour of Russia. He hag the very highest opinion of the Jewish population, and is boiling over with indignation and horror at the inhuman treatment that they are receiving from thd Russians. Rus-sians. Information comes from Moscow that Count Koffsky, the Cossack chief of police, whose brutalities in evicting the poor Jews of Moscow last March shocked the whole world, has for eight weeks been confined to his house by delirum tremens. tre-mens. He is also implicated with one of his subordinates, subor-dinates, Lentoffscky, in forgeries amounting to UlO.UOO roubles. |