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Show fi'i'smis now receiving relief in India number .-..SOS.OOO. 1 lie British house of lords has passed the Australian commonwealth bill. All the missionaries, some sixty in number, iu the Shan Tung district, are safe. The liritish tir.st-elass cruiser Argonaut, Argo-naut, with a crew of GST men. has left Sheerness for China. Imports of dry goods and merchandise merchan-dise at the port of Xew York last week were valued at SS. 490, 207. The imperial government has accepted ac-cepted Victoria's offer of a naval contingent con-tingent for service in China. H is said the cruiser Philadelphia, now at Astoria, will leave within a few days for Chinese waters. Senator Ilanna will go to New York and open the national headquarters in that city on or about July 25th. Five deaths iu ten days from yellow-fever yellow-fever is General Wood's report in his latest casualty list from Cuba. It is t lie intention of the war department depart-ment to ask congress for a standing army of not less than 7",000 men. The suffering at Kumassi is reported as terrible, the mortality from starvation starva-tion being thirty persons per day. Twenty - two hundred Japanese troops, with fifteen guns, have arrived ar-rived at Taku and 800 more are expected. ex-pected. The bubonic plague quarantine Texas Tex-as has enforced against San Francisco for two months, has been modified to some extent. The consul-general at Dresden reports re-ports the exports from there for the past six months at 81,130,101, an increase in-crease of 818G,72S. The steamer Hundesrath has arrived at Antwerp with gold valued at S40,000 consigned by Trausvaal bankers bank-ers to Holland bankers. Llarry Perry of San Francisco has been arrested on a charge of passing counterfeit silver dollars. He is said to have made a confession. A detachment of GOO marines and 100 artillerists started from Brest for Tou-ton Tou-ton yesterday to embark for China. Crowds of people cheered them off. It is announced that General Dodds, the hero of the Dahomey of the campaign, cam-paign, has been appointed to the command com-mand of the French expedition to China. A detachment of signal corps men lias been ordered from Seattle to Port Valdez, Alaska, to construct a telegraph tele-graph liue from Port Valdez to Fort Egbert, Alaska. The pay proper of enlisted men serving serv-ing in Porto Rico, Cuba, the Philippine islands,-Hawaii and in the territory of Alaska has been increased 20 per cent over aud above the regulation rates of pay. Reliable diplomatic sources say that despite repeated ollicial assurances the eutente between the powers is rather shaky, especially between Russia and Japan and England and Russia, respectively. respec-tively. It is stated at the quartermaster-general's quartermaster-general's office that there are now at Manila facilities for the transportation of 4,500 troops to China, with no greater delay than is necessary in their em- barkation. On the charge of having set fire to the tenement in Hoboken, the destruction de-struction of which on Tuesday morning morn-ing last caused a loss of thirteen lives, Henry Vagt, a saloonkeeper, has been arraigned. Exports of gold and silver from New York to all countries for last week aggregated ag-gregated 7lK),585, silver bars and coin, and" S1G2.240 gold. The imports of specie were S15,0o7 gold and S20,807 silver. A summary of the week's work in the patent office shows that the' cash receipts to have been $1,358,228, a larger sum than in any previous fiscal vear. The total number of patents, 26,510, also breaks the record. The political events of last week in London were the defeat of the government govern-ment in the house of lords by its owu supporters over the proposition to appoint ap-point a commission to inquire into the losses sustained by the Irish landlords. Bowser, the Chicago man who proposed pro-posed to run the whirlpool rapids, Niagara Nia-gara in his lifeboat, did not succeed hi launching his craft. Preparations were made to put the boat in the water, but the Cauadian police interfered. Rome Tribuua says the expedition-ary expedition-ary force to China will be composed of a battalion of infantry and one of marksmen, each consisting of 900 men, and two half companies of artillery armed with eight Xordcnfelt-Mitrail-leuses. A Berlin trade paper prints an article under the caption, "Russia or America Amer-ica " in which it claims that a certain party has advised the government to avoid making a commercial treaty with the United States in order to get better bet-ter terms with Russia. Perry Young, who claims to be a fol-lOWerof fol-lOWerof the turf, was arrested at the Terminal hotel at Union station, fet Luis, on a telegram from the chief of poL of San Francisco. The te leg ram limplv states that he is wanted there oa the charge of felony. |