AMERICA.

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AMERICA.

i.j ' • 1 ■ Mr. Bryan’s Policy. I Mr. W. J. Bryan, the Democratic can'ciidale for the Presidency, addressing a gathering.‘of 18,000 people’at Lincoln, . Nebraska, and accepting nomination for said he held that the Re-Iwli-G!US -SSK.JMPQ'l^hleJor_JJg> abfises,_ .practised by commercial corporations, be-

cause they applied opiates instead of using the surgeon’s knife. Personally, he favoured a tariff for revenue purposes only. He advocated the election of senators by the direct votet of the people. Hie overshadowing issue of the present election, he declared, was: Shall the people rule? The speech was received with great enthusiasm. President of Pern Attacked. A man armed with a knife attacked the President of Peru (Senor -lose Pardo) in the streets of Lima, on August 13 th. The President defended himself until the police came to his assistance, when the man dropped the knife and escaped. Opium in Vancouver Tlie Chinese in British Columbia threaten to boycott Canadian goods if anti-opium legislation be passed. The Chinese claim ten years to sell their stocks, and say that otherwise they will lose a million dollars. Alaskan Seal Fisheries. The Japanese pelagic fleet, not being Ixiuild by the Convention prohibiting the British and American fleets from killing seals within a zone cf <>" miles around the Pribylof Islands, off the Alaskan coast, pursues seals up to the ordinary three-mile limit. This so injuriously affects the British Columbia sealing industry that the owners of British Columbia vessels contemplate placing their vessels under the Japanese flag. Russia is trying to induce Japan to adhere to the Russia conventions with Britain and America for the protection of the Alaskan seat fisheries. Death of Mr. Sankey. .The deatjt fin* occurred fft Mr. Ira D. Sankey, the American evangelist, in his 68th year. Ira David Sankey was one of the greatest evangelists America has produced. He was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, in 1840, and Was for 29 years associated with Dwight L. Moody. He compiled “Sacred Songs and-Solos” and “The Christian Choir”and composed many hymns, such as “The Ninety and Nine.” “A Shelter in the time of Storm,” “When the mists have rolled away,” etc. He lectured for many years in America-and Great Britain, but for some time has been ili and confined to his bed at his home in Brooklyn, New York. Black v. White. Sanguinary race rioting has occurred in Springfield, Illinois. A white woman was assaulted by a negro, and in revenge large bodies of armed whites attacked the negro quarter. Houses were wrecked, and many were fired, the whole negro quarter being more or less demolished. The Governor of the State has ordered the militia, armed with gattling guns, to quell the disturbance. During the fighting several negroes and whites were killed. The riots arose when the whites heard that a negro had assaulted a sleeping white woman. The whites then rushed the negro quarter and clubbed the blacks with sticks and revolver butts. The drink-enraged mob dominated Springfield throughout the night. The police, by firing at the legs of the crowd, restored partial order. Whites from neighbouring towns are now swarming in to assist in the racial war.