NEWS OF THE WEEK TUESDAY, AUGUST 23 DOMESTIC. The international commission which is to consider questions at issue between the United States and Canada met at Quebec and organized by electing Lord Herschell president....Members of the Philippine junta in London say that there will be no trouble from the insurgents if the Americans decide to retain the islands....It is understood that the hierarchy of Porto Rico will be at once attached to the Catholic Church in America ....There are now 1,040,356 pensioners on the rolls of the pension bureau and 63,648 original claims were granted during the past year....The American bankers' association began its annual meeting at Denver, Col. FOREIGN.-Nearly the whole AngloEgyptian army, under General Kitchener, is encamped at Wady Hamed, 55 miles from Khartoum, in the Soudan....Cecil Rhodes has been elected to the Cape Colony assembly from Little Namaqualand....Residents of Jamaica are preparing a popular appeal to the British parliament in favor of annexation to the United States.... Leading Spanish residents of Cuba have recently been receiving threatening letters from insurgents. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24 DOMESTIC.-General Wilson has closed the saloons in Ponce, Porto Rico, with a view of quieting the disorders which have prevailed there....The military and local authorities at Santiago have arranged for the opening of public schools on September 15....The Cuban leaders in this country are making strong efforts to secure the disbandment of the Cuban army.... Michigan Prohibitionists nominated a state ticket headed by N. W. Cheever for governor....The universal peace union began its annual meeting at Mystic, Conn. FOREIGN. The queen regent of Spain has convoked the cortes to meet September 5....The election for the seat in the house of commons for the Southport division of Lancashire, made vacant by the acceptance of Mr. George N. Curzon of the viceregency of India, resulted in the return of Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland, Liberal.... General Rios has sent dispatches to Madrid stating that the insurgents in the Viscayas islands, a group of the Philippines, have been fighting his troops....A serious insurrection has broken out at Nadoa, in the interior of Hainon island, in the China sea.... The prospects of a famine in Russia are said to be most grave....Herr Richter, the German Radical leader, condemns the proposed increase in the German army as unwarranted by any equivalent action of neighboring nations. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25 DOMESTIC. The American and Canadian arbitration commissioners held their first joint business meeting in Quebec.... Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard university, in an address at Ashfield, Mass., said that the principles upon which the United States government depends have been violated by the war....Aguinaldo, in an interview, says he is anxious to support the authority of the United States in the Philippines....General Shafter sailed from Santiago for Montauk Point on the steamer Mexico....Lieut. William Tiffany, a New York society man and an officer of the Rough Riders, died in Boston from the effects of starvation and exposure in Cuba....A Washington dispatch says Archbishop Ireland is to be raised to the cardinalate. FOREIGN.-The British government has appointed a commission to investigate French treaty rights in Newfoundland.... The Chilian and Argentine commissioners appointed to settle the boundary_dispute between those countries met at Santiago de Chili....El Liberal, a Madrid newspaper, says England wants the United States to annex the Philippines in order. to use them as a base of operations against France and Russia....The Thingvalla line steamer Norge ran into and sank the French fishing schooner La Coquette on the banks of Newfoundland, sixteen men being drowned. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 DOMESTIC.-Secretary Day announced at the close of the cabinet meeting that the peace commission would consist of himself, Senators Davis and Frye, Whitelaw Reid, and Justice White....Admiral Schley visited the president and discussed the duties of the Porto Rican commission ....A suspected case of yellow fever was reported at Galveston ... Señor Vicuna, Chili's new minister, presented his credentials to the president....The firing of a pistol by an American trooper at Manila caused an engagement between Americans and insurgents, which resulted in the death of one trooper and the wounding of several others; four natives were killed. FOREIGN.-Heavy rainstorms in Porto Rico have caused floods, which washed away the bridge between Ponce and the port, shutting off communication between those points....The Anglo-Egyptian expedition, which is advancing on Omdurman, has seized the island of Gib-el-Royan, opposite El Hojir.... President Faure and Emperor Nicholas exchanged telegrams in honor of the first anniversary of M. Faure's visit to Russia....The Peking correspondent of the London Daily Mail says that the relations between the Chinese foreign office and the British minister are strained to the point of rupture; the British minister has intimated that any failure by China to observe Great Britain's wishes will be accepted as a casus belli. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 DOMESTIC.-The president and Mrs. McKinley went to Somerset, Pa., to visit Abner McKinley, stopping on the way at Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa....The death rate among citizens and troops in Santiago de Cuba is decreasing; the American postal system is soon to be introduced....General Hains will leave Porto Rico and will be succeeded by General Grant.... Orders for the mustering out of several more volunteer regiments were issued by the war department.... Admiral Schley was lionized wherever he went in Washington....The president promoted many officers of General Merritt's army for their services in the Manila campaign....Israel Zangwill, the wellknown author, arrived at New York. FOREIGN. The steamer Hope arrived at St. John's, N. F., from her trip to Greenland with the Peary expedition; Lieutenant Peary was left at Sheard Osborne fiord, where he will spend the winter....The constitution for the United States of Central America has been signed by the commissioners who drafted it and a commis sion has been appointed to govern the three states until the election is held, in December....The Prince of Wales left his yacht for the first time in a month; he was transferred from the yacht to the Macbeth makes half the lamp-chimneys; and half the dealers won't sell 'em, because they don't break. Get the Index-free. Write Macbeth Pittsburgh Pa shore in an invalid chair on a houseboat ....Eighteen peasants who sought shelter from a storm in Foggia, Italy, were killed by the collapse of the building. SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 DOMESTIC.-A Manila dispatch says that the cruiser Raleigh, as well as the Olym pia, has gone to Hong Kong to be docked; Admiral Dewey has transferred his flag to the Baltimore....The free silver Republicans of California have nominated James G. Maguire for governor on a platform indorsing the war, but condemning the bond issue....Lieutenant Hobson has been advanced to the grade of naval constructor.... Ex-Governor Matthews, of Indiana, died at Indianapolis. FOREIGN. The czar has sent a note to all the foreign diplomats at St. Petersburg inviting the powers to take part in an international conference, looking to a reduction of the excessive armaments now crushing all nations, as a means of thus insuring real and lasting peace....A monument to the Czar Alexander II was unveiled at Moscow.... Premier Sagasta is quoted as declaring that it was the government's intention to repress the discussion of war topics in the cortes....The Zionist conference was opened at Basle, Switzerland. MONDAY, AUGUST 29 DOMESTIC.-President and Mrs. McKinley ended their visit to Abner McKinley at Somerset, Pa., and started for Cleveland....General Merritt will go to Paris to advise the peace commission; Admiral Dewey asked permission to remain with his fleet at Manila.... Yellow fever has broken out among the men of the Fifth Infantry sent from Tampa to Santiago Justice White may decline his appointment as a member of the peace commission....General Shafter reports that the customs revenue collected at Santiago has defrayed the local expenses and left a large margin besides. FOREIGN. The czar's proposals for peace were received with distrust by most of the foreign papers....Dispatches from Manila said that the inhabitants were alarmed at the attitude of the insurgents ....The plague in India is spreading.... Great distress prevails among the Russian peasantry owing to failure of the crops.... The Seguranca, with Lieutenant Hobson on board, reached Santiago.... Four persons lost their lives in attempting the ascent of a mountain in the Canton of Valais ....Riots have broken out in Barbados and further trouble is feared. 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