It is authoritatively stated at the treasury department that the government will proceed immediately to refund these duties, acting upon the decision of the comptroller of the treasury, which was to the effect that the treasury department had authority under existing law. The duties amount approximately to $2,000,000.
OOM PAUL’S WIFE IS DEAD.
Mrs. Kruger, Wife of the Former President of the Transvaal Republic Dead at Pretoria.
Pretoria, July 21—Mrs. Kruger, wife of the former president of the Transvaal republic, who is now in Europe, died Saturday evening, of pneumonia, after an illness of three days, aged 67 years.
Mrs. Kruger was the second wife of the former Transvaal president. She was a Miss Du Plessis, a name of prominence in South Africa. Mr. Kruger’s first wife was her aunt.
Mrs. Kruger was a typical Boer woman. She cared nothing for finery, and at her home in Pretoria, she had all the simplicity of manner and mode of living of the plainest woman of the veldt. It was said of her, even at the time when her husband was accumulating millions, that her chief interest in life was to see how much she could save in her housekeeping. Throughout the Transvaal she was famous for her coffee, which she always had ready for visitors.
Ohio Bryan Democrats.
Cleveland, O., July 24.—At a preliminary meeting here of the leaders of the bolt among the Bryan democrats, George A. Groot, of this city, has been chosen as temporary chairman of the state convention to be held at Columbus, July 31. Dr. Abner L. Davis, of Findlay, will be the temporary secretary.