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Show CREAM Of THE NFWS. The hope of the establishment of friendly friend-ly relations between the Emperor and the National Parliament In Russia was further fur-ther strengthened by the audience granted grant-ed by the Emperor to the president of the lower house. Mr. Hepburn of Iowa gave the naval bureau a hot roast In a speech In Congress Con-gress yesterday, accusing incompetence. . The Rio Grande river Is out of Its banks and damaging farm lands north of El Paso in the Mesllla valley, where many thousands of dollars' damage resulted from floods. At Anthony the channel Is changing and endangering the Santa Fe railroad track. The American fishermen arrested for fishing In Mexican waters and placed in jail at Progresso have been released. Assistant General Passenger i Agent Smith of the Northern Pacific railroad gave out an emphatic denial of the reports re-ports that the recent earthquake shocks which wrecked 8an Francisco had materially mate-rially changed the aspect of Yellowstone park. The time for holding biennial conventions conven-tions of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America was changed from the first Monday in May to the second Monday Mon-day in June. In a dispatch from Toklo to the Daily Telegraph It is asserted . that China is about to spring a coup d'etat with regard to the organization of all the railways in the Empire. The dedication ceremonies in New York of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research attracted a distinguished audience, audi-ence, which listened to addresses by Charles W. Eliot of Harvard. President Nicholas Murrav Butler of Columbia university, uni-versity, and others. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs Af-fairs has authorized a favorable report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. The measure as amended carries a total of $2,744,000. which Is an increase over the current appropriation of a quarter quar-ter of a million. The correspondent at Constantinople of the Times says the rumors of an Armenian Arme-nian massacre at Cesarea, according to which seventy-five Armenians were killed, cannot be confirmed. |