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Show iVSMWSSjSSjSS- NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF FORM St. Peterburg. Russia and England ofTered each other the ame solution to the North sea Incident. Embassador Benckendorff, by instruction, proposed an International Inquiry to the British Government, and Embassador Har-dinge, Har-dinge, almost at the same time, presented pre-sented a similar proposal to the Russian Rus-sian Government. Southampton. Premier Balfour in his speech last night said the Russo-En-glish difficulties would be submitted to arbitration and that the danger of war had been averted. Esopus. Judge Parker, addressing a delegation at Rosemount. replied to a recent interview of Senator Knox and reiterated his statement that large corporations cor-porations had contributed to the campaign cam-paign fund of the Republican party. Chicago. Mrs. Edith Burritt Smith, well known In society here, was stricken strick-en with smallpox while In a pesthouse nursing her daughter, who had been attacked at-tacked with the disease and who had been removed from the Smith residence. Paris. The news from London that the Anglo-Russian trouble had been put in the way of settlement by the adoption adop-tion of the principle of relerence to a commission on Inquiry in connection with' the lines laid down by The Hague conference has relieved the tension which had been felt the last few days. |