State Senator William Goebel, contestant for the office of Governor of Kentucky, was shot down on the State House grounds at Frankfort, January 30, by a hidden foe.
Senor Mabini, the strongest counsellor of Aguinaldo and his Congress in the Philippines, has addressed a letter to the correspondents in the Philippines in which he request that Congress either nominate a civil commission which may put itself in contact with the influential Filipinos, or permit a commission of Filipinos to come to Washington to express the desires of the people.
In his Thanksgiving speech Ambassador Choate said, "Let England and America clasp hands across the sea, and the peace of the world would be absolutely secure.
The latest reports from South Africa are to the effect that all the troops for the relief of Ladysmith are past Cape Town, while part of the relief is at Estcourt only forty miles away.
