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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. (The Swedish government has ratified the Algeciras convention. The senate has agreed to the holiday adjournment resolution, which provides that if adjournment is had next Thursday it shall be until Jan. 3 next. Judge Landis, in the United States district court at Chicago, appointed the American Trust and Savings bank of that city receiver for the Lincoln National bank of Norton Park, a suburb. George Boote, for many years one of San Francisco's most prominent shipowners and shipbuilders, is dead after a short illness resulting from a fall from a street car six weeks ago. He was eighty-four years of age.