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Show FROM 1! K VOX!) Til E OCEAN. Will lope Ceo Change Front ? Rome, Jan. 37. It is learned from Vatican sources that a few days ago Cardinal Vanuu-telli Vanuu-telli had a long interview with the pope on tho subject of a reconciliation between1 the holy see and Italy. The interview was prompted by the emperor of Austria, who is personally interested in tho matter. Austria, Aus-tria, it is understood, asks of the pope the participation by the Catholics in the Italian parliamentary elections, and a modification of the present favorable altitude of thiliWy' see toward France, In return for Mrlanu trio wants Italy to change bur iniinicaMfti-. tittle toward the Viticau to oue of a friendly character and put au end to the religious persecution of Catholics. Austria haajt triplc'cnd in view to save the. triple aHiai& from discredit In the Catholic world, 'to p?K" vent the Vatican going over to France, and to counteract the radical movement in Italy, which in time threatens the position of the monarchy. The Italian court and government have signified their approval of the rcapproacliment on tho lines laid down. Starving Peasants Going to Siberia. London, Jan. 27.--8t. Petersburg advices say that thousands of peasants from the famine-stricken districts have started for Siberia, Sibe-ria, hoping that they will be able to better their condition there. Large numbers have arrived at Tibomen, their objective point being Tobolsk, 120 miles northearst. Many of them are iu a destitute condition. It is. estimated that there are now 14,000 persons in the vicinity of Tibomen entirely destitute and many are sick with the typhur or scarlet fever. The weather is intensely cold and the bodies of the many dying from starvation starva-tion and disease freeze in a few hours. They arc then taken to tho cemetery and unceremoniously uncere-moniously Imrictl in a common pit. The priests refuse to hold funeral services or administer ad-minister the sacrament unless paid. Italy Will Stay Willi the Latin League. Rome, Jan. 27. Tho government's intention inten-tion on the currency question wa3 the subject sub-ject of an interpellation in tho senate yes-tcrday. yes-tcrday. Minister of the Treasury Luzzati said that tho monetary question had not reached an acute stage. It was the spirit of a renewal of the Latin tmion question that greatly excited America on account of her imperfect system. The Washington government govern-ment must come to sonic resolution in order to avoid injury through tho circulation of silver. The owners of the silver mines are the only people ill America who seek to inaugurate silver monometallism, it was to to 3 general interest to preserve the l atin union. It wovld be a false step to leave the Latin league for the purpose of embracing silver monometallism. He had determined to appoint a commission to study tho monetary policy am! consider the advisability of founding a fractional cur-sency cur-sency intermediate between the bronze and silver. Free Trade, With a String. Bunuv, Jan. 21'. The rciclistag rejected lhe tariff committee's resolution iu favor of lhe admission of foreign corn without re-gurd re-gurd to country or origin, and adopted the L'Omprom'isc proposed by Uerr Ruhl and Minister Von Bootticher, that all foreign . urn stored in free warehouses on February 1st within the German customs union sliail bo admitted until April liotli at the reduced iitc; also stocks of corn already ordered but eft iu bond by millers. This provision also applies to timber and wines. Keid Must Not Tell. P.iu:J, Jan. 27. White-law Rcid, United states minister, has for the past w eek been oulined to his residence by a slight attack if inlliicna. lie is now recovered. A cpresciitativo of the Associated press today isked him if negotiations were being curried m In Varis for reductions in American du. ies on silks and wine-, in return for recip-ocal recip-ocal advantages in I n u li duties. After ieid read the articles he said: "There is lothing in it," adding: "I am not at liberty o tell what the negotiations arc about." Met a Terrible Fate. New York, Jan. ST. It is thought tint en of the eighteen missing employes of the treet cleaning department, blown out to ea on a scow yesterday, ware drowned. It b said that those remaining, unless they lave been picked op, must, certainly have icon d'ow iud or frozen to death. .. m,tk a i ' . :. |