Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-03-07
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
THERE has been IN eruption of ashes
from Mt. Vesuvus.
Twelve cardinals will be named ut
the consistory on next Easter.
Work has begun on the buildings for
the Madrid international exhibition of
1880.
gems. WooD and Pearson are making
it very hot for the Iulu's who begin to
retreat.
AUSTRIA and Turkey continue to com.
munica.e with each other in very con
ciliatory language.
THE English steamer iSiiistrid has
been wrecked ut Salerno and eighteen
persons drowned.
YAKooB KHAN has offered to make
terms Of peace with England if given
an opportunity to do SO.
THE French Atlantic cable is broken
16l miles from st. Pierre, Miqueron,
in 500 fathoms of water.
A DISPATCH from Vienna states that
M avalanche near Marburg killed TWEEN
ty.one persons and destroyed nine
houses.
A SIDNEY, Australia, dispatch of Feb
9th SAYS The statue Of Captain Cook
was unveiled yesterday, in the pres
ence of 10000 persons.
The young French prince imperial,
son Of Eugenic, will join the British
forces in South Africa. He wants n
commission III the army.
SrERE ALI has been reported dead
but II conflict Of opinion in regard to
the matter is now going on throughout
Europe The best information leads to
the belief that the Shere is actually u
dead man.
TIE latest information from South
Africa states that the situation is TN
changed, that the English troops are on
| the defensive and that the loss of the
invaders in the battle of Rorkes Drift
was over 500 men.
TIE mayor of Sheffield states that in
one district in that town there are 1000
persons destitute and 400 families actual
" starving. The relief fund, except
about ES00, has been expended.
A HEAVY storm prevailed Feb. Goth
throughout Italy. A dispatch from
Rome reports that the sea inundated
II large portion Of Venice. In the
Piazza san Marco the water was thirty
inches deep. The coast fom Genoa to
Naples is strewn with wrecks. Parma
Piacenza, Milan, and Florence were
damaged by the storm.
A LONDON dispatch of the 3rd inst.
says the Spanish steamer Gualermo,
British steamer iStrint from Liverpool
for Boston, came into collision ycster-
day Sunday, four miles southeast of
Skerries. The GualerHo afterwards
took fire and sank. A majority Of the
crew were saved 10y an Irish steamer.
The captain and several of the crew
were injured and number are missing,
but are supposed to he on board the
steamer bound for Dublin.
A DISPATCH of Feb. eth, says ire
mendous storms continue in the south
OF France, where hundreds of people
are thrown ON public charity by the
destruction or inunduuon Of their
houses. In Spain the tempest lasted
| four days, and there was much damage
and loss of hfo. Various villages and
farms i'll Navarro and the Aturias we're
destroyed. A bark, name unknown,
was wrecked 1T Corunna, and thirty
persons drowned. The steamer Mem
phis, from Liverpool for New Orleans,
ashore Mt the entrance Of the harbor
ut Corunua, has been abandoned. She
is considered II complete wreck.
LATER dispatches concerning the
disastrous storm i'll Italy state that the
whole coast is strewn with
wrecks; ut many ports small crafts
were blown out to sea and lost i'll the in
terror. The storm Was equally violent at
Puagginoto; near Siena the campanile
OF church was blown down while the
people were at mass, killing two priests
and three other persons and wounding
twenty-four. A similar catastrophe oc.
Cured ut Auontauro, where the vault Of
Il church yielded to the force OF the
storm, and killed the priest celebrating
and injured number of the congrega-
ton. AT Rome the force az the wind was
UNPARALLELED; all tho windows of Mon
teale Croci were destroyed and portion
of the base of Michael Angeles statue
Of David was swept of.
TiE very latest adycos frcm Samoa,
per Now Zealand. state that
Gen. Bartlett has been informed, Jan.
ed, that, with regard TO fixing his status
with the government, nothing could be
done definitely until after the treaty
with Germany had been concluded,
which was then i'll course of negotiation
with the Germon consul. There are
two German men-of.war i'll port-Arn-
dian and Albitross. Bismarck is ex.
pected within month. II the treaty
fails to be concluded, Capt. Won Werner
will most likely proclaim against Samoa;