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*- : THE McKINLEY ADMINISTRATION. A STRANGE DISCOVERY. (Per Press Association.) Washington, January 14. It is understood Senator Sharman becomes Secretary of State In the McKinley administration. Calcutta, Jan. 14. A party of Danish officers exploring the Pamir Plateau have discovered traces of pigmies devoted to sun worship. The cattle and other animals of these strange people are also of a diminutive character. Tokio, January 14. Miss Jacobs has been arrested on a charge of murdering Mr Carew at Yokohama. Prisoner denies having confessed to the crime. Constantinople, January 14. The Sultan has consented to the creation of a joint European and Turkish commission to control the Turkish Budgets and expenditure. London, January 15. Iv the course of a speech the Duke of Devonshire stated the Government intended to constitute local bodies for the control of secondary education with a central council. The Bradford wool market has a downward tendency. Pretoria, Jan. 15. The Transvaal Executive has promised Barney Barnato to assist in the mat ter of labor supply for the mines, also to take steps to augment the supply of water and to reduce the cost of dynamite on the Rand goldfields.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 167, 16 January 1897, Page 2
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