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ii London will present a petition to Queen 
Victoria asking her to refuse to confirm the selection 
of Aldermen Stewart Knlll as Lord-Mayor of London 
because he Is a Catholic. The petitioners will probably 
be snubbed.—Mr. Gladstone’s majority in the House of 
Commons has been reduced to thirty-nine by the defeat 
of his candidate, Mr. Harry Lauson, in one of the 
divisions of Gloucestershire, England.—Thomas Neil], 
said to be an American, is on trial in London on the 
charge of murdering four unfortunate girls by admin¬ 
istering poison to them.—At a meeting in Manchester, 
England, of cotton operatives, representing the whole 
>n of 5 
a, Wales, established 
English cattle breeders advoci 
quarantining all live stock exc< 
directed chiefly against Ame 
increasing competition, the c 
closing of the works will throw 700 person 
employment. 
France.—' Trouble is feared at Carmaux, 
a strike for some time. A political aspect 
given the trouble, and many members of the 
now in Carmaux —Paul Ddrouldde, the noted B 
member of the Chamber of Deputies, is sei 
from an attack of cholerine. 
Germany.— Emperor William has signed C 
von Caprivi’s military bill, and has empowen 
socialist, t< 
made by Herr Bebel, the German 
•ganize the employes of tramway and 
mies in Berlin, at a midnight meeting of 
the men in that city, resulted in only nine men being 
induced to form a union.—Herr von Brandt, German 
minister to China, has resigned. 
inaugurated as President of the Argentine Republic, and 
has formed his cabinet as follows: Minister of the in¬ 
terior, Manuel Quintana; minister of foreign affairs, 
Calisto de la Torre; minister of war and marine, Ben¬ 
jamins Victories —The Venezuelan trouble still holds the 
attention of South America, though it is generally 
believed that the war is over and that peace will soon 
be restored. 
Lake Como, in Italy, has overflowed its banks and a 
number of towns in the vicinity are flooded. Consider¬ 
able damage is reported. Floods in the province of 
Genoa are growing disastrous. 
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF WASHINGTON. 
same time as the vote for the Nation 
;nt State officers, at the head of wl 
though the latter h 
born in Taylor county, Virginia, now West Virginia, 
Washington, in 1885. He was educated at the Univer¬ 
sity of West Virginia and at the University of Vir¬ 
ginia, having taken the degree of Master of Arts at the 
former and the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the latter. 
He was District Attorney of Yakima and other counties 
the last Washington Territory Code Commission, and 
first State election. He was elected as Representative 
from Yakima county in 189(1 and was a delegate to the 
recent National Democratic Convention at Chicago, and 
seconded the nomination of Cleveland. 
The Republican nominee for Governor is Mr. John H. 
McGraw, a prominent banker of Seattle, and a native 
