AMERICA.

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AMERICA.

t ount Bernstorff, German diplomatic agent at Cairo, has been appointed to succeed Baron Speck von Sternburg us Ambassador at Washington. The Ways and Means Committee of the American Houses’ Association has decided that if a special session of Congress be called to revise the tariff and a maximum and minimum tariff are adopted, care should be taken not to discriminate

against Britain while Britain did not impose high duties against the United States. Love Levels All. Senator Elkins having refused to sanction u morganatic marriage between his

daughter and the Duke of the Abruzzi, cousin of the King of Italy, King Victor has consented to aceord Miss Elkins the position of a Royal Princess. Street Duel. A sensational street duel was fought in Nashville, Tennessee. A political feud existed between exSenator Carmach and a rival politician named Robin Cooper. The pair met in one of the principal streets of Nashville last week, and immediately drew their revolvers and opened fire. The duel ended in Cooper shooting Carmach dead. Shot in Court. Duiing the trial of AT>e . Reuf, on charges arising out of the San Francisco municipal frauds, Mr Francis Honey. district attorney, who prosecuted ex-Mayor Schmitz and others in San Francisco, for “graft,” was murderously assaulted in Court, receiving a bullet wound, and is believed to be dying. His assailant, a saloon-keeper, named Morris Haas, who has been arrested, declared that he had been ruined by Heney and therefore shot him. A Fatal Quarrel. A man named MeGrath shot his former employer, Walter Ammon, a millionaire oleomargarine manufacturer, dead as the result of a business quarrel.