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NEWS OF THE WORLD SHORT TELEGRAPA ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. A Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week-National, Historical, Political and Personal Events. Chicago was visited Saturday by one of the heaviest windstorms of the year, the gale reaching the height of 52 miles an hour for several hours. Much damage was done to trees downtown. Sir Arthur Nicholson, the British ambassador at Madrid, is to succeed Sir Charles Hardinge as ambassador of Great Britain to Russia. General B. J. Viljoen is negotiating for land near El Paso, Tex., on which to found another colony for the Boers, who recently abandoned their homes in Chihauhau, Mexico. Secretary Root has informed the Japanese government that he will hereafter conduct affairs relating to Korea through the Japanese legation at Washington. Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, wife of the lawyer and congressman who was recently a candidate for lieutenant governor of New York, was killed in an automobile accident at Long Island City, Saturday. Safe crackers recently blew the safe in the postoffice at Forestville, Cal., and got about $500 in cash, and a number of money orders. Thos. Lawson says he has received so many proxies that his control of both the New York Life and Mutual Life is absolute. After a protracted adjournment the case of Oberlin Carter, the ex-army officer who is endeavoring to prove his legal title to funds which he is declared by the United States to have embezzled, has been resumed at Chicago. Dr. Daniel Shepherdson died recently in Honolulu. He formerly was an associate of President Harper of the University of Chicago, and also assistant pastor of the First Baptist ehurch of that city. A dispatch from Newfoundland states that the 100 ton schooner Columbine, bound from Charlottetown for Newfoundland ports, foundered with four men in Fortune bay during the recent gale. The defalcation of Cashier Clark of the Enterprise National bank of Allegheny. Pa., together with money that can not be accounted for, will be not less than $1,500,000. President Roosevelt has approved the sentence of Captain Alga P. Berry. Twenty ninth infantry. who, by courtmartial, was condemned to dismissal from the army on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman. J. J. Hill, president of the Great Northern. has arrived in New York from Southampton. Marquis Ito was given a garden party recently at Seoul in celebration of the Japanese-Korean protectorate treaties. One new case of yellow fever is reported at Havana, making a total of eight cases under treatment. K. Sougimora, Japanese minister to Mexico and Peru, who has been sojourning with his wife and child in California for some time, recently left for the City of Mexico, accompanied by his family. The run which began at Keokuk, Iowa, on the State Central Savings bank. stopped almost entirely after the arrival of four wagon loads of silver dollars from Chicago and St. Louis At the observatory of the Tacubaya university Thursday a new comet was discovered. The astronomers say that the comet. which can be seen with a small telescope, is flying swiftly toward the sun. Mrs. Kidder, the hymn writer, died at Chelsea, Mass., Saturday, aged 86 years. The president has directed the appointment of Rev. Edward S. Travers, assistant rector of Trinity church. Boston. as chaplain of the United States military academy at West Point to succeed Rev. Shipman. resigned. Newton C. Dougherty. the ex-banker at Peoria, III., who was given an in determinate sentence in Joliet, was taken to the penitentiary this week. Marshall Field, Jr., of Chicago, is paralyzed from the waist down. the effect of his accidentally shooting him self Two Italian section hands were killed and two others mortally wounded Saturday by three other Italians who entered a freight car at Winthrop Harbor, 45 miles north of Chicago and fired at them repeatedly. Fifteen persons were injured and many others shaken up in a wreck recently by a collision head-on, on a curve near Leeds, Mo. The navy department has ordered that an autopsy be held over the body of Midshipman Branch, for whose death Midshipman Meriwether is now undergoing courtmartial at Annapolis