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• 1 media/Thumb127.png 2024-11-08T11:55:45-05:00 "News & Rumours" 28 News in brief: US Secretary of State denying expansionism – Hopes to avoid war in Europe – Slave trade ban in Zanzibar – Cholera in Spain – Influenza – New tax in Venezuela – Wilhelm II's new newspaper – Obituaries plain 2024-12-11T09:22:33-05:00 09-02-1890 Translation:

  Important Declaration of Mr. Blaine:

  Mr. Blaine, [U.S.] Secretary of Foreign Affairs, gave a speech on 29 August at Witerville (Maine). He said that the United States will not extend to their territory and that they do not want to annex any country unless their inhabitants ask the inestimable favour of coming under the flag of the Union. Mr. Blaine added that he expected the people of the United States to be happy for a long time under the current extent to their country and that they will not throw themselves into any annexationist enterprise.
  
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  The Political Situation in Europe:

  According to the newspaper La France, the conclusion to draw from the interview between the tsar and the emperor of Germany is as follows:

  Russia and France, equally strong and powerful, form the best guarantee of peace, and it is very evident that as long as this alliance lasts, thanks to common interests, there will be no need to fear a change in the status quo in Europe.
  
  The triple alliance will not start a war of aggression, they will have too much to lose. For their part, France and Russia do not want to start a war whose consequences could be terrible for Europe as a whole.

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  A telegraph from Berlin to the Continental Press Association said:

  According to a letter from Zanzibar, dated 12 August, the sultan of Zanzibar, under pressure from a large protest carried out on 11 August in front of his palace, will have reported the edict that he had promulgated against the slave trade.

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  Labour Day, celebrated on the 1st of September in New York, witnessed a great procession of workers.
  
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  L'Alliance française — La Fraternité puts itself entirely at the disposition of this great national Association for the propagation of the French language.
  
  We would be happy to be able to help spread this work in Haiti where it is not yet known well enough.
  
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  Cholera in Spain:

  On 29 August, 64 cases of cholera and 33 deaths had been reported in the provinces of Alicante, Badajoz, Tarragona, Toledo and Valencia.
  
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  Influenza once again:

  An epidemic of influenza has once again in the military barracks in Glogau.
  
  31 August — The sickness has also reappeared in Nîmes; but so far it has been of a benign character.
  
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  A tax on unmarried people:

  The Senate of Venezuela has just adopted a tax on unmarried people. All unmarried people over 35 years old must pay 1% on a revenue under 25,000 fr. and 2% on any higher revenue.
  
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  Wilhelm II, Journalist:

  There are rumours that emperor Wilhelm that the newspaper that he has been planning to found for a long time will appear for the first time on the 1st of October. This newspaper will be a daily.
  
  The emperor will direct this newspaper himself. The editorial board has been selected.
  
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  Obituaries:

  Mr. François Rouvier, father of the current Finance Minister of France, died on Friday 29 August, in Marseille, at the age of 80.
  
  29 August – Death of Mrs. Lüdert, the wife of the President of the General Mercantile Society, who have important business with Haiti. We offer our condolence to the Lüdert family.
  
  31 August – Death of Mr. Gavarret, professor of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, honorary inspector general of the Faculty of Medicine.
  
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