FOREIGN.

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FOREIGN.

A tariff war is threatened betwec-a 'America and Germany over the Payne tariff. The reciprocity treaty having expired. America demanded as an irreducible minimum the free entry of meat into Germany. This the agrarians would not concede, and America threatens the maximum tariff on April 1, while Germany replies that her maximum will automatically operate against America <m F< bruary 7. England will Fccurv the advantages of the minimum tarifi, but the preference her colonies arrant her debar- them from the minimum, and another tariff war between Canada and the United States is likely President Taft, in a message to Confness. advocated conservation uf tha natural resources of the United States, and asked the withdrawal from private arttletnent of aurh public lands as con* tain timber, coal, minerals, or phosphates. or which border on water. The President appealed for 30.000.000 dollars to complete irrigation projects already begun, and for 60,000.000 dollars for the deepening of inland waterways. The Hukan of Turkey’s palace whi<4i Kk>t four millions to build, was destroy-

ed by fire on Wednesday, many of the archives of the Ottoman Empire being burned. A disastrous fire in a clothing factory in Philadelphia resulted in twelve women being killed jumping from, high windows, others being killed when the roof fell in.