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Show Foreign News in Brief ST. PETERSBURG, Doc. 28. Tho cabinet cabi-net has decided to ask tho duma to appropriate ap-propriate $2,000,000 for a vfceond general census of Russia, to be taken in 1010. ROME, Doc. 26. Tho resignation from tho diplomatic corps of Lloyd C. Gria-com, Gria-com, the American embassador to Romo, Is announced by tho Italian prcsri today. The nows la accompanlod by muny expressions ex-pressions of rogrct. CONSTANTINOPLE, Doc. 26. At today's to-day's sitting of tho new Turkish parliament parlia-ment tho president announced that the sultan had decided to build, at his own expense, a new parliament house. ST. PETERSBURG. Doc. 28. St. Petersburg Pe-tersburg still continues to suffer from the Asiatic cholera. There wero eighteen new cases, and five deaths from tho disease dis-ease yesterday, This has been tho dally average for the past month. MADRAS, Dec 2S. The Indian national na-tional congress was opened In this city today, with 2000 delegates In attendance. attend-ance. Emphatic approval of tho reform plans for India Introduced by Lord Moro-ly, Moro-ly, the Indian secretary, was expressed. LIVERPOOL. Dec. -2S. Tho Cunard line declines to confirm tho report that Its steamers will begin cnlllng at Cherbourg Cher-bourg as well as at Quoonstown on their eastward journey, commencing next spring. Nevertheless, tho statement Is definitely believed in shipping circles. THE HAGUE, Dec. 28. Tho foreign offlco today made the statement that the trouble between Venezuela and Holland Is regarded as provisionally at an end and that The Netherlands Intends to hold its hand pending tho progress of the new Gomez administration. ST. PETERSBURG, Doc. 2S. The financial commission of tho duma has decided de-cided to Introduce an excise on liquor In tho Russian part of tho Island of Sak-halien. Sak-halien. Tho low price of liquor in this territory has led to universal drunkenness drunken-ness among the natives and convicts. VIENNA, Dec. 2S. Some excitement was aroused In this city today by exaggerated ex-aggerated reports of an alleged fight between be-tween Austrian and Servian troops near Zcllngc. a village of Bosnia. Tho war office, of-fice, however, has received a dispatch on the occurrence, which shows that it was of llttlo Importance. WILLEMSTAD. Island of Curacao, Dec. 2S. Tho United States cruiser Dcs Moines arrived today. Tho Dcs Moines was in communication with another American war vessel about five miles out-f'j. out-f'j. tu Im-hor. IvMloved to bo tho cruls-. North Carolina. After the two ves- .s .s.-parated mo second warship proceeded pro-ceeded west. NEWCASTLE, N. S. W., Dec. 2S. Tlio British steamer Advance and tho British Brit-ish bark Ivcrna wero In collision oft here today. The Advance went down, and with the exception of her first officer all the members of her crew lost their lives. The Ivorna put into Newcastle leaking badly. TEHERAN. Persia. Doc. 28. Tho Nationalist Na-tionalist movement in the provinces Is spreading and the provocative attitude of tho shah and the palace clique Is rapidly Increasing the unrest In tho capital. A large number of Nationalists have taken refuge at the Turkish embassy, and v hundred merchants havo taken rcfugo at the Turkish consulate In Resht. PARIS. Dec. 2S. The Investigation by the police In tho Mattls Incident has ro-vealcd ro-vealcd Mattls's relations with tho "Yellow "Yel-low Syndicate," a royalist organization, and as a result tho police yesterday scaled up tho offices of the newspaper. The editor of this paper Is Perrc Beltrle, a deputy from FInisterre. Last night he defied the orders of tho pollco and broke Into I1I3 office. CAPETOWN, Dec. 28. The Hottentots in German Southwest Africa aro again on the warpath. They recently raided some cattle posts near tho Bouchanalaivl border and murdered two Europeans. Seven German soldiers sent In pursuit of the raiders woro all siiot down by tho Hottentots. Thore Is great anxiety among the local residents. AMOY. Dec 2S- The riots which started start-ed on Saturday with the refusal of natives na-tives to obey an order prohibiting the planting of opium poppies, now affecli twelve villages. Twenty miles west of Tungan. 2000 men are reported under arms. They have withdrawn to tho Bolln mountains and the authorities have asked ono viceroy at Foo Chow for additional ad-ditional troops. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 2S. There is no confirmation from any source of tho reported attempt on the llfo of the shah of Persia. A local newspaper, tlie Ve-cher, Ve-cher, yesterday said it had heard that two mon, disguised as priests, had made an attempt to kill tho Persian ruler, December Decem-ber 2o. Armed with revolvers they gained an entranco to tho palace and fired ono shot before they were ovor-powored. ovor-powored. The bullet wont through the coat of tho heir to tho throne. |