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Show .Ex-Secretary John Sherman is daily improving in health. The state department is watching with anxiety the developments In Guatemala. A scheme to establish a negro colony at Oak Grove, near Flemington, N. J., is assuming form. The report that the king of Belgium would visit Newport is discredited in official quarters in Washington. The loss of cotton crop by flood in the Brazos bottom, Texas, will be 200,-000 200,-000 bales, representing S.", 000.000. The drought is still terrible in the pastoral company of New South Wales. Fifty per cent of the stock are dead. Five thousand refugees in Salvador and as many more in Mexico and Honduras Hon-duras are ready to take up arms against Cabrera, At Fort Smith, Ark., ten of the striking strik-ing miners were convicted in the federal feder-al court of entering into a conspiracy to intimidate negro miners. It has been many 3-ears since the Panama isthmus has been visited by such an outbreak of yellow fever as is prevailing in the city of Panama. The Separatist uprising in the Southern South-ern provinces of Peru is spreading, and the government has sent 500 infantry and cavalry into the rebellious district. It is reported that Russia is arranging arrang-ing a loan in the United States and that large orders have been made for rails and armaments to counter balance it. There are now 40,000 troops in South Africa. The official estimate for the Boer males of 16 years and upward, plus a third of those under 16, is only 39,038. The late Czarowitch, according to the Paris correspondent of London Daily News, was privately married with his mother's consent. He left no children. Secretary Alger reports that General Otis, in response to an inquiry, had cabled that there was no necessity for shipping cavalry horses from this country. Attorney-General Crow won the first round in a suit to oust the Continental and other parties from doing business in the state for violation of the antitrust anti-trust law. Mrs. Rich is to be surrendered to the Mexican authorities to be tried for the murder of her husband. This has been decided upon by the authorities at Washington. Besides dynamite gunsGatlinfr guns will probably be sent to General Otis, and the army transports are to be armed with six-pounder rapid-Sreguns to prevent any possible attack by insurgents. in-surgents. The customs receipts at the port of Havana for June were 81,012,890. The total receipts for six months of 1809 are, to be exact, $5,146,830. The monthly average for six months is 8357,805. It Is problematical what attitude will be adopted by our government in case an attempt should be made by the European governments to seize custom, houses in Guatemala to collect money for bondholders. An order of the war department permits per-mits the immediate family of a regular volunteer soldier, who is absent abroad, to purchase at post prices fuel and subsistence stores which are for the immediate use of the family. II. S. Coleman, a Wisconsin man, has sailed for Alaska with a cargo of cats on which he expects to realize at least 53,000. He says the rats are very troublesome in Dawson and his cats will bring from 320 to 850 each. Dynamite guns are to be used by the American troops in the fall campaigu against the Filipinos. Preparations are beiog made by the ordinance department de-partment to supply General Otis with six Sims-Dudley dynamite pneumatic weapons. No representations have been made to the state department as reported from Pretoria touching the reported intention of American citizens in the Transvaal to become lirilish citizens in order to avoid impressment into the P.oer army. Count P.oni de Caslellane. who married mar-ried Anna Gould of New York, has not challenged the prince of Monaco to a duel, as was reported by a New York newspaper, and if he expected a challenge chal-lenge from the prince lie has been disappointed dis-appointed so far. Charles G. Dawes, comptroller of the currency, has resigned the ofliee of treasurer of the Lafayette Memorial commission because of his inability, in the pressure of ollicial duties, to supervise super-vise the sale of the Svi.000 of souvenir coins voted by Congress. The orders issued last summer which allowed sixty cents a day per man for soldiers undergoing hospital treatment, treat-ment, have been revoked, and an order issued ailoving forty cents perda3- per man from the appropriation for subsistence sub-sistence of the army. It is said at the state department that the financial conditions in Guatemala Guate-mala and impending repudiation threaten severe loss to American citizens. citi-zens. But so far our government has I not consented to take any joint action with England and Germany, |