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Show FROM OVER THE WATERS. The Sultan Was Mad. Los nox, Jan. 7 Advices from Tahgicr showthat the Moorish mission sent to Touat to arrange for the annexation of the oasis to Morocco failed. When the envoys returned re-turned and reported their failure to the sultan, sul-tan, the latter was deeply incensed. The envoys weic thrown into prison, and subsequently, subse-quently, by the sultan's orders, they were strangled. England After Morocco. Pahis, Jan 7 The trouble at present ex-isting ex-isting in Tangier district of Morocco and the dispatching by the British government of two Warships to protect British interests in Tangier, has awakened a feeling in some French quarters that England has the in-teutions in-teutions of adding to her territory by forci. blc acquisition of a part of the Sultan of Morocco's domain. This feeling is not in any degree allayed al-layed by the reports from Tangiers, which stat" that the British minister has warned the governor that if lie can. not guarantee the safety of tbe city against the rebel tribes, sailors will be landed from the British warships. This is taken by tbe alarmists I, an aggression on Hie part of the British, and . Seielt today demands that the government dispatch the entire French Mediterranean squadron to Tangier to prevent the British from carrying out any designs of an aggressive character they may have formed. lit l.Zo, In an article on the same subject, says that it ;- rumored thatthc French Mediterranean Med-iterranean ii. i t has already been dispatched to Tangier. Kusnla Leaves France in the Lurch. Lonihin, Jan. 7. The Tiiiug' Vienna correspondent cor-respondent says: Russia has ungenerously left France in the lurch in tne Chadonine affair. Foreign Minister Kibot if HOW con-seious con-seious that ho war not in possession of the full facts In the case when he took action. He did not then know that the French agent bad been verbally warned of Chadonine's expulsion. Now, seeing that he is forced to stand alone, he will deal with the matter in a conciliatory way and Stambouloff will do his best to meet him. France Crawfishing. PARI, Jan. II. It is declared in official circles cir-cles here that all the powers approve of the attitude of Kibot, minister of foreign affairs, in regard to t he matter of the expulsion of Chadottliie from Bulgaria. The. French government, gov-ernment, it Is said, in its demands on the Bulgarian government, merely desired to in sure respect for the capitulations and to prevent a recurrence of the affair. A speedy and satisfactory settlement of the difficulty between France and Bulgaria is confidently expected. An Unknown Vessel Wrecked. London, Jan. 7. An unknown vessel was Wrecked in Papa sound, Shetland, Sunday night. It is feared everybody on board was lost. A quantity of wreck drift came ashore including a piece bearing the letters ,lA. L." The size of the spars it dicate that the vessel was a large oue. A Fire at Sea. London, Jan. 7. The British steamer Catalonia, at Queenstown from Boston, reports re-ports that on January 5th she pasted a sailing sail-ing vessel on fire. The Catalonia searched in tbe vicinily, but found no trace of the crew of the burning vessel. The latterewas completely gutted. The Tobacco Monopoly in Persia. Teheran, Jan. 7! The agitation started by the priests against tobacco resulted in the government withdrawing from the company bidding the concession right to establish a tobacco monopoly in Persia. A Snow Storm la Iterlin. Berlin, San. 7. Railway traffic and shipping ship-ping is interrupted by the snow storm that has prcvail"d since Tuesday night. The telegraph tel-egraph and telephone system is greatly impelled. im-pelled. France Will Send Soldier!). I'Mtts. Jan. 7. 7m Fraiur today states that that a French military expedition is about to be sent to- 'ftmat to enforce Franco' I pretensions preten-sions to that oasis. Triclinosis in Hussin. St. PeTIRABUKO, Jan. 7. At Lodz, near Warsaw, fifteen persons have died of trick. posts and forty others are dangerously ill of the disease. Three Men Killed. llt'iii ix, Jan. 7. Three persons were killed and six seriously injured by an explosion ex-plosion in a moiiopol pit in Minister today. Inquiring into the Cause. Dt iu. in, Jan. 7. The magisterial inquiry was begun into t lie cause of tiie recent ex-plosion ex-plosion in Dublin castle. |