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BRIEFLY TOLD. A Summary of Minor Matters of Interest Throughout the World. The proposition to bond Lemars, Iowa, for electric lights was resubmitted at a special election and defeated by a majority of 266 against. Great excitement has been caused in Pierre, S. D., by a report that gold had been found in paying quantities along Sage creek, in Ziebach county. The government agent from Washington has arrived in Mankato, Minn., to locate the site for the United States public building. A large number of sites are offered. The report that Colgate Hoyt and C. L. Colby have sold their holdings of Northern Pacific stock, and will resign from the directory of the company is positively denied The king of Sweden has sent experts to Germany to study the question of more rapid communication between Sweden and Germany. The new route will be from Orystad via Rugen to Stralsund. Advices from Washington state that postal receipts during the past year have been sufficient in Pierre, S. D., to raise the postoffice from third class to one of the second class and put in the special mail delivery system. The story telegraphed from New York that Ann Odelia Diss de Bar, the notorious "spook medium," was coming to California under the patronage of Senator Stanford, is indignantly denied by both Senator Stanford and his wife. A settlement was made with a syndicate of banks of the claims against the defunct Commercial bank of Des Moines. One hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars worth of claims were settled at 77 1-2 cents on the dollar. The London Standard and The News in discussing the seizure of the Willoughby expedition by the Portuguese authorities in South Africa say that Portugal is goading Great Britain to the utmost limits allowable even to so weak a power. The Russian pope who went from St. Petersburg to San Remo to marry the Grand Duke Michael to Countess Meremberg, has been suspended by order of the holy synod from the functions of his office, and is in some danger of a journey to Siberia.