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Show NEAVS SU3DIAKr. The flc "a are subsiding- in Upper Bavaria, but railway communication, i with the south and southeast is still interruped. Joseph Brenner committed suicide at Asheroft, B. C, wliile temporarily insane, in-sane, by throwing himself in front of1 a freight train. Imports of wheat into Liverpool for the past week from Atlantic ports, S3, 300 qrs. ; Pacific ports, none; other ports, 27,000 qrs. Major James W. Pope has been re- ; lieved as chief quartermaster at Ma- i nila. his place being- taken by Major j Crosby P. Miller. Secretary Kcot has approved the action ac-tion of General Ludlow in suppressing the Keconccn trado, a paper formerly published at Havana. Captain Leair, the governor-genera! of the island of Guam, has reported his arrival at his post on the steamer Yosemite, under date of August 7. The report of a shipment of 10,000 tons of copper to this country turns out to be a transfer of Chile bars to one of the works for refining. The president of the Italian commission commis-sion to the Paris exposition, has re- : signed as a protest against the verdict of the Rennes court-martial. An insane merchant of Berlin named Herman Bordasch was arrested at a notel in L,eipsig last week for threatening threat-ening to kill the king of Saxony. The steamer Rio de Janeiro, which has just arrived at San Francisco from China, will pass into the hands of the government for the transportation of troops. The French budget for 1900 shows an increase in the estimated expenditures of 45,000,000 francs. The war and marine ma-rine ministers ask for 36,000,000 francs increase. Secretary John Willis Baer of Massachusetts' Massa-chusetts' Society of Christian Endeavor Endeav-or has declined the nomination for governor tendered by prohibitionists of Bay state. i General Otis has cabled the war department for 5,000,000 rounds of JOHN C. HUBINGER. ammunition for the army rifles. The consignment will be sent from San Francisco. The German third-class cruiser Wacht, while participating in the autumn au-tumn maneuver at Kiel exploded her boiler. Four persons were killed and four others injured. Charles Allen, a mail robber who escaped es-caped from Ludlow street jail in New York, in 1S95, and Sydney Wennie, a pick-pocket of Washington, have been arrested at Frankfort. The secretary of the interior has approved ap-proved the allotments of lauds to the Yakima Indians in their reservations in the state of Washington. There are 675 of the allotments. Joseph Gill of Steubenville, 0., was nominated for congress by the Sixteenth Six-teenth congressional district Republi can convention on the two hundred and ninety-ninth ballot. General D. M. Dodge of New York,, announces that subscriptions for the Dewey memorial fund in New York now amount to 875,000. The home is to be erected at Northfield. In many parts of Cuba there is great want of labor, in spite of which the Cubans are crying for foreign labor to leave the country, and in Havana work is being improvised for vagrants. The war department has abandoned the steamship Morgan City to her owners. She lies in the inland sea below be-low Nagasaki, and wreckers have been engaged in the attempt to float her. An Armenian journal reports that discovery, which he considers the crowning event of his wonderful career, and which is embodied in a new article of commerce, known as Red Cross Starch (Red Cross trade mark.) He is planning to distribute millions of packages of this starch to the housewives of America, at a merely nominal price to the consumer, in order to make its merits known without delay. de-lay. Thus, for but 5 cents two large 10c packages of Red Cross Starch may be had, together with two magnificent Shakespearean views printed in 12 beautiful colors, or a Twentieth Century Cen-tury Girl Calendar; or for only 20 cents 10 packages of the starch and the entire series of eight Shakespearean views and one Twentieth Century Girl Calendar views alone easily worth $1.00. Watch this paper for future - premium announcements, of which ; very lady will certainly want to take : advantage. : While Mr. Hubinger will devote his best energies to the manufacture of this new and wonderful starch, he will not retire from the various financial enterprises in which he is interested-street interested-street railways, electric lighting plants and the Missisisppi Yalley Telephone Co., with 10.000 telephone subscribers In Minneapolis and St. Paul nor will his augmented activity interfere with his social obligations and exercise of the splendid hospitality which he dispenses dis-penses at his paiatial. Keokuk home. Mr. Hubinger's family, consisting of himself, wife and four child rcn, is the I pivot around which his activity revolves, re-volves, and while fond of promoting great enterprises, he is still fonder of his home circle, where he spends every moment of time not taken up by business busi-ness or public cares. Turkey absolutely refuses to permit the Armenians who emigrated to the Caucasus at the time of the Kurdish atrocities in Armeian to return to their homes. Assistant District Attorney James G. Grady, a brother of Senator Thomas F. Grady, dropped dead in the office of former police judge, Joseph Iloch, New York. Death was caused by heart disease. The navy department has decided to assign Rear-Admiral Farquhar to command com-mand the North Atlantic station, in place of Rear-Admiral Sampson, who will assume command of the Boston navy yard. Telegrams have been received at Shanghai announcing that several British missionnrips bmro a-- .-w.... UIHCU out of the city of Paongan, situated 160 miles across the border in Audone province, Thibet. The armor for the battleship Wisconsin, Wis-consin, in course of construction at the Union Iron works, San Francisco is now arriving, but the vessel will not be turned over to the government until un-til next spring. Admiral Schley has been assigned to command the South Atlantic station. An iron bridge over the river Traunn, at Amunden, Austria, collapsed while twenty men were endeavoring to strengthen it. Nineteen were drowned. drown-ed. , I The president announces that he has decided to extend his Chicago trip to Minneapolis and St. Paul. , American farmers are to have com- i petition from a new quarter in the wheat raarkct of the world, Asiatio Russia, j |