The Cuban Senate appropriates $25,000 with which to buy Miss Alice Roosevelt a wedding present.
Dispatches from French West Africa state that the Sultan of Morocco is endeavoring to get the natives of the Soudan to organize a holy-war against France.
Thirty-seven persons are saved from the steamer, Valencia, which was wrecked near Cape Beale, Vancouver’s Island. All 154 persons left on board the vessel were drowned.
The revolution in the Russian Caucasus continues to spread.
France decides to boycott all Venezuelan products before making a naval demonstration.
French and German envoys to the Moroccan conference are holding meetings in hopes of reaching an agreement on the points in dispute.
January 27.—Reports from Vladivostok show that the revolution has not been crushed. St. Petersburg dispatches claim that the revolution in the Russian Baltic provinces is drawing to a close. A fight between troops and revolutionists takes place at Gomel and the town is burned.
Discussion of the dispute of Germany and France continues at Algeciras, Spain.
Twenty-five members of the diplomatic corps at Caracas send a note to the Venezuelan Government disapproving of the treatment of M. Taigny, the French Minister.