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Show NEWS SUMMARY.. The tobacco trade war has begun In English markets. In other trades ) England has to face severe competition I also. Commandant-General Botha has dis-1 dis-1 solved h's force, which numbered 2,000, and has left his men to escape as best ' they can. ; A gypsum trust is the latest. The capital stock of the company will be 813,000,000 and some thirty-eight plants .J will be taken in. A large number of Boers are near Pongolabosch and Slangapies, while a commando of 500 holds a position southeast of Piet Retief. War news is meager and unintelligible unintelligi-ble in London, but the Unionist politicians poli-ticians and military men are satisfied that everything is going right. M. Caillaux, the French Minister of Finance, announces that the government govern-ment will oppose with extreme energy any proposal to increase the expenditure. expendi-ture. , Candidates for state offices were nominated by the Democrats of Rhode Island in convention Tuesday. L. F. C. Garvin of Lonsdale, is the nominee for governor. A sensation has been caused ic Buenos Ayres by a communication that Chile is building roads and bridges in territory under dispute between Argentina and Chile. It has been found necessary to amputate am-putate one of the fingers of Dr. Cal-mette, Cal-mette, director of the Pasteur Institute, on account of a bite from a cobra from which he was extracting the venom. A war between Russia and Japan over Korea is predicted by Dr. Nicholas Nicho-las Senn, professor of surgery in the i university of Chicago, who has arrived in San Francisco from a tour of the Orient. A mass meeting of students at Cornell Cor-nell was held recently for the purpose of adoption of resolutions to discourage hazing, which reappeared between members of the under classes a few days ago. The motor car has been introduced successfully for transport in the upper -, Congo region. One such car conveyed I a load of three tons over a road too j hilly to admit of any other method of . conveyance. A Btate of chronic anarchy is reported In Macedonia owing to the lawlessness of the Albanians, whose attitude toward the Christian population is worse than of that of the Kurds toward 1 the Americans. Gloomy reports of the condition of the British West Indies are printed, and the moral is drawn that the reassembling reas-sembling of the Brussels congress is indespensable to the revival of. the prosperity of the sugar industry. The Austrian Reichsrath reassembled reassem-bled last week. The budget for 1902 was submitted to the Unterhaus. It estimates the expenditures at 1,685,-017,944 1,685,-017,944 kroner and the revenues at 1,685,966,357 kroner. Frank W. Hackett, assistant secretary secre-tary of the navy, will retire shortly from that office. He will be'succeeded by Judge Charles H. Darling of Bennington, Ben-nington, Vt., whom the president has decided to appoint when the vacancy shall occur. More than two-thirds of the olive rowers of California have united in an attempt to obtain better prices for their product. They have appointed a committee to devise a plan for the organization of all the olive growers of the state. Nicholas Flood Daven, a verteran journalist and former member of Parliament, shot himself dead in his room in the Clarendon hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba. He had been prominent in politics in the Northwest for twenty years and was the author of several books and plays. Jake Dowling, alias James Brown, who claims that he has stolen thousands thous-ands of horses in the west and northt west during his career, and that he has thrice faced lynching parties as a result of his depredations, has been taken to Madison, Wis., where he is wanted for the alleged theft of a horse. The directors of the new Panama company, in a circular to the share-fcolders, share-fcolders, say that Colombia has expressed ex-pressed its readiness to sanction the -transfer of the canal to the United ; tates. An estimate of the value of he undertaking is therefore beinf prepared pre-pared at the request of the Isthmian anal commission. ' |