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Show r foreign News in Brief BERLIN, Aug. IS. Scnor Velos, tho Venezuelan charge d'affaires, presented his credentials to the foreign offico today. PEICIN. Aug. IS. An official complla- I tlon of the life of the lato LI Hung Chang has been published in the Chinese language lan-guage at Shanghai. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. IS. Nineteen sentences of death were signed In various parts of tho Russian empire today. Ton condemned at Lodz are peasants concerned con-cerned In revolutionary activities. LEMANS. Aug. IS. Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplnnlst, has leased the grounds populnrly known ns tho Field of Auvours. a largo military tract seven miles from here, where ho will have greater spaco lo conduct his flights. PUERTO CORTEZ. Honduras. Aug. 15, via 'Mobile. Ala., Aug. IS. Passengers from Guatemala City who arrived last night on the steamer Harold say that the uprisings In Honduras were a part of the project of President Cabrera of Guatemala Guate-mala to make Gen. Morales president of Honduras. CASA BLANCA. Aug. IS. There aro rumors current In native naval quarters here that Abd-El-Azlz. the sultan of record, rec-ord, has reached Morocco City after a march In which he put to rout tho followers follow-ers of Mulal Hnfid. The statement, how-ovor. how-ovor. is without any convincing confirmation. confirma-tion. BERLIN. Aug. IS. Tho military steer-able steer-able balloon which sailed from Tcgel last night returned at dawn this morning to tho halloon enclosure, having boon In the air something less than six hours. The balloon had sailed to. Neusiadt nnd back and during tho tlmo it was In the air It averaged twenty miles an hour. LONDON", Aug. IS. According to a special dispatch received here from Geneva Ge-neva this morn 1 11?. the leaders of the Young Turk party aro to meet In that city at the end of this month, to discuss the question of deposing the sultan of Turkey, and, In tho case of an afflrmatvo decision, to select a successor. No confirmation con-firmation of this statement can be had here. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. IS. The health of the empress Js again arousing anxiety at the Russian court. She appeared, ap-peared, to be greatly benefited by the cruise in the Finnish archipelago, but sinco her return there has boon a recurrence recur-rence of hysteria, general weakness preventing pre-venting her from walking and sometimes even standing. It Is said that sho Is mentally depressed. DRESDEN. Aug. IS. A greeting from Count Loo Tolstoi was read today to tho members of tho fourth International congress con-gress of Esperantlsls. Invitations to hold next year's meeting In Japan and the United States have been received by the congress. Of the 175 new societies rep-rcsonled rep-rcsonled to the congress, ion aro In the I United States and five In the Philippines. Tho total of Esperantlsls societies In the , United States, old and new, aro sixty-six. |
