Foreign

London. - Tho Berlin correspondent of the Standard says that Russia will not join In Japan's protest against the ennexation of Hawaii by the United States, but she regards the measure aa a dangerous precedent. St. Petersburg. - The Russian turret ironclad Qangoot, one of the best vessela in the imperial csvy, ran upon a reef near Transend during a storm and sanlj ahnost instantly. Her crew is reported saved. London.- Laird Clowes, the naval expert, In an 'arttcle in the Daily Mail on the Spithead review, highly p;aises the American use of olectricity tov various purpose3 in mon-of-war an' dsclares that in this matter Great Brltain is years behind the United States. Loudon. - The daughter oí Adiairal Millar, the represenlatlve of the American navy at the queen's Jubilee, is dangerously ill. She is suffering from typhoid fever, believed to hftva been contracted on the passage across th Atlantic. Madrid. - Disturbances have taken place at Oviedo, the capital of the Spanish province of that nam Vne gendarmes who were detailed to suppress the disorder fired upon the rioters, killing two workmen and vvound ing five others. A renewal of the disturbance is feared. Bonibay. - As Plague Commisaioner Rand and Lieutenant Ayerst were leaving the governor's reception at Gane&hkind, held in honor of the queea's jubilee, a native who was hidden 'behind same trees shot both the oiTieers. Lieutenant Ayerst dicd of the wounds received and the condition of Commlssioner Rand is most serious. Paris: Francis Edouard Joachim Coppee, the French poet, now In hls flfty-aixth year, is dying.