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Show : CREAM OF THE NEWS The Rerlln correspondent telegraphs a report that Prof. F.ehrlnir. the well-known well-known bacteriologist, is suffering from a nervous breakdown and is about to be placed in a sanitarium. It Is s'a'ed that the Socialists of Germany Ger-many will have a chance in the reballot-ln, reballot-ln, February 5. Reports from the provinces prov-inces state that tfie tendency nmonf? all the other political paries Is to form cautions cau-tions with a view to defeat liiK the Socialist Social-ist s. Prime Minister Maura, the Conservative Conserva-tive leader, who assumed office a few davs hko. has decided to dissolve the Spanish Cortes, and hold a general election. elec-tion. The prospect, so far aa the new Government Is concerned, la not brijfht. Tiispatches from St. Petersburg to London Lon-don report the condition of Count Io Tolstoi, the novelist, who is ill, as critical. J. C. and A. M. Stewart, members of the contracting firm of James Stewart k Co. of New York and London, went to Washington last niKht to confer with YY. J. Oliver and President Roosevelt on the proposition said to have heen made to them tentatively to Join Oliver in his bid on the Panama canal contract. John A. Ookefalr, past commander of Custer post. G- A. R . Is dead In Laramie, Lara-mie, Wyo. Gen. Russell A. Alater win given a soldier's sol-dier's funeraJ In Detroit yesterday. |