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Show ( foreign News in Brief LISBON, Aug. 10 Tho Chambor of Deputies today approved arbitration treaties with tho United Statos and several sev-eral other countries. TAMBO, Russia. Aug. 10 Bandits last night attacked and pillaged the Knzan-sky Knzan-sky monastery, near here, anil scoured gold and Jowcls valued at 310,000. DRESDEN. Aug. 10 Tho Esperantlsta who are holding their fourth International Interna-tional congress here havo decided to publish pub-lish books In Esperanto for tho blind, and to prepare a proper exhibition to glvo Information rclatlvo to Esperanto. ROME, Aug. 10 Tho Popo today is slightly Indisposed, having caught a cold which has affected his gout. Hl3 physicians physi-cians havo ordered that ho tako a rest and subsequently all audiences have been suspended. LISBON. Aug. 10. A gun seller named Fcrrerl and his assistant, who sold the carbine to Manuel Bulssat with which Bulssa killed King Carlos. In February of this year, wore unexpectedly arrested today. They have been placed In solitary soli-tary confinement. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 10 The center cen-ter of virulence In the cholera epidemic has been transferred to Roslov-On-Don, where thirty-one new cases and ten deaths were reported on August 17. Tho cholera Is now working its way down tho Black Sea along the Caucasus coast. LISBON", Aug. 10 Marlus Franzlnl. who was at ono time- minister of war, made an unsuccessful atcmpt today to commit suicide. Senhor Franzlnl Is a prominent Progressist, and his attempt to kill himself has created much speculation specula-tion In political circles. BOME. Aug. 10 Cardinal Gottl, prefect pre-fect of the propaganda, has again postponed, post-poned, tho discussion of the appointment of a coadjutor bishop of San Francisco, for which offlco Rev. Dr. Edward J. Han-11a Han-11a of Rochester was the leading candidate. candi-date. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 10 Tho seventeen sev-enteen members of the first Douma. who. on May 21. began serving three months' Imprisonment imposed for signing tho Vlborg manifesto, wore released today. They were liberated before tho specified time In order to avoid any possible demonstration. dem-onstration. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 10 Foreign Minister Jswolsky left hero today for Carlsbad, where he will tako tho euro for three weeks. Afterwards ho will visit France nnd Englnnd. nnd before ho returns to St. Petersburg he will havo been In consultation with the most Important Im-portant chancellors of Europe. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 10. A dispatch dis-patch has been received here from Tabriz, Ta-briz, Persia, which says that the military mili-tary governor of Azerbaijan province has arrived at that city. He Is accompanied by a score of cavalrymen and announces that a detachment of 0000 men. accompanied accom-panied by n battery of artillery, Is following follow-ing him. The townspeople, however, aro skeptical of the truth of these statements. state-ments. PARIS. Aug. 10 General d'Aamnde, commander of tho Fronch forces In Morocco, Mo-rocco, telegraphing to the war office bcro tonight, statos that he has received a loport that Morocco City has surrendered to Ahdcl Aziz, the sultan of record, but that this report' has not been confirmed. It Is known that Abdel Aziz was not far from Morocco City a day or two ago, and that a vanguard of his army had demanded de-manded the surrender of the place. ST. PETERSBURG.. Aug. 10 Japan has formally .signified Its readiness to negotiate ne-gotiate a sealing convention with Russia Mlmllar to tho Russo-Amerloan and tho Russo-Brltlsh conventions. Through tho ncqulsltlon'of the south half of the Island, of Saghalln, Japan becomes owner of Seal Island. Iho breeding place of a small herd of seals, and It isow recognizes Iho' Importance of co-operating . with other countries In preserving the herds. TOKIO. Aug. 10 Special dispatches to tho newspapers from London and Paris Par-is simultaneously represent that tho strong feeling In America of distrust of Japan Is causing hesitation concerning the visit of the American battleship iluot, lest the Japanese Inflict somo damage to iho Hoot. Tho continued publication of those dispatches has caused much chagrin cha-grin among officials and the public genera gen-era ny. MOSCOW. Aug. 10 Tho .Moscow police po-lice are only on the throHhhold of tho In- ; vostlgatlon of fraudulent postage stamp business, for which thirty persons woro yesterday reported as having been arrested. ar-rested. It Is believed that tho operations which consisted -In tho systcmatlo traffic In cancelled stamps will develop Into ono of the most colossal swindles of recent times In Rirssla. The Hkuios already reported re-ported of six million stamps cover only tho sales nt Moscow for thro" months. Two well-known merchants of Moscow are among thoso arrested. |
