Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-21
VOLUME XII.
General News Summary.
THE OLD WORLD.

A letter has been published in Europe from
Bishop Won Kettler of Mainz, addressed TO
the German Emperor, in which the latter Is
challenged to prove the assertion against the
LOYALTY of the German Catholics contained in
his reply to the Pope's letter.
The London Times of the 18th says it ap-
pears that there is a second letter from the
Pope to the Emperor, which the latter had not
published, and which the Catholics say he was
afraid to publish.
A cable telegram of the 18th says the British
Government had instructed its Consuls at
Havana and Santiago de Cuba to watch the
proceedings against the captives of the Vir-
ginius, as it had been informed that one of
them was q subject of Great Britain.
The German Government has recently made
a further payment of $3,000,000 for bonds Of
the United States funded loan.
Intelligence has been recently received at
London, England, that famine prevailed in
Greenland, caused by the failure of the fisher
les. In one village alone $50 persons had
starved to death.
In his address to the italian Parliament,
which opened on the 18th, King Victor En-
manuel said it had been shown that Rome
might become the capital without encroaching
upon the independence of the Pope, or the
exercise of the spiritual functions and rela-
tiOns of the Catholic world. The Pope's re-
lgiods sentiments and liberty will be respect
ed, but attacks upon the nation and it's insti-
tutions will not be permitted.
The Committee on the prolongation of
President MacMahons term reported in the
French Assembly, on the 18th, in favor of an
extension of five, instead of ten years.
The London Daily Ne,OS of the 18th, in an
editorial article on the prospects of the annex
alton of Cuba to the United States, says:
"The execution of the Virginius captives has
virtually decided the fate of the island" The
other London journals of that date contained
editorials of a similar tenor
1t is said that in his second letter to Emper-
or William the Pope treated of matters strictly
personal to His Majesty and this accounts for
the fact that the letter has not been published.
A Berlin telegram of the 18th says: "It is not
from motive of courtesy that it has been
kept back, but for the simple reason that it is
entirely devoid of Importance 1t has not
been, nor will it be, answered by the EN-
peror."
President MacMahon sent a message to the
French Assembly on the 18th asking a pro-
longation of his term for seven years. The
committee consented to the proposition.
The German Government has addressed a
remonstrance to France on account of pas
toral issued by the Bishop of Nancy, ordering
prayers for the recovery of Metz and Stras-
burg.
1t was stated in London, on the 17th on
official authority, that the Foreign Office had
instructed the British Minister at Madrid, the
Consuls at Havana and Santiago, and the Gov
ornor of jamaica that the English Govern
ment reserved its decision on the question of
executions which bad already taken place at
Santiago, but would hold the Spanish Gov
ernment and all concerned responsible for any
additional executions of British subjects.