Foreign

The relttlons between France and Brach are everfly etrained. It Is feared war will tsult. There í.' a report that the eal flshlng on the Librador coast last spring was almost a complete failure. lt.ia allegèd that ex-Unlted States Consul Waller, arrested In Madagascar and taken to France, is ill in prison and denled proper medical treatment. The Russo-Chlnese loan Is sald to be slgned. The fishlng smack Rambler, belonging In Yarmouth, England, has been sunk in the north sea and live of her crew drowned.The director of the Manra oservatory announces an inflexión ntiir the south eusp of Venus, visible sincT June 9, which disappears dafly ai 4 o'v."ok. A Iarge military baloon burst os. the grounds of 'the baloon department of the Germán army at Berlín, seriom'y lnjuring five persons. The cause oí Che break is not knovvn. Prince Blsmarck is very 111 at Fridrichsruhe. Members of his family isve been summoned. The viceroy of the Chi#e .ij'yln--.i of Szechuan is blamed lor the murder -f foreign missionaries and the deatiuction .of their property. The abolition of the house of lords ia is te, be an issue In the coming polltlcal campaign in England, according to Lord Iiosebery.