Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-01
FOREIGN.

by the breaking of ice near Paris on
Christmas.
JAKoOB KHAN is the coming man in
Afghanistan. His father, the ameer,
sought safety in precipitate flight.
The Nihilists continue to cause great
CONSERVATION in Russia. The police
have more than they can do to track
the cCnspiratlons.
THE Duke of Cumberland, king of
Hanover, was married to Princess
Thyra, youngest daughter Of the king
of Denmark, Dec. 22nd.
SULIEMAN PAsHA, says a catlegram of
Dec. Goth, whose alleged misconduct of
the Turkish armies during the late war
was due to Damned fasha's orders, has
been pardoned.
THE captain and officers fthe steam
ship Pommeraaia have been acquitted.
The inquiry decided that human effort
did all possible to avoid the collision
and loss fife.
\ LONDON cablegram of Dec. 9th
says ten thousand pounds Is required
for the sick and hungry of Sheffield.
The severe weather continues through
out the kingdom, and the distress in
creaseS.
IT was reported from Afghanistan,
Dec. Odd, that the flight of Ameer Shere
Ali had caused complete anarchy in all
the country between Jellalabad and Ca
bul. The war, it was believed, ended
in the Ameer's flight.
Nnrih
Brazil, reports the smallpox as very
fatal in that province. The deaths In
the capital number 600 daily, and the
distress in the interior is appalling; the
people devour carbon and bodies of the
dead.
THE state line steamship State
of Louisiana, from Glasgow, which
left that port on the 23d, inst,
for New York, ran ashore Dec. oath,
at Hunter Rock, while entering Larne
Locke, Ireland. The vessel will prob
! ably become total wreck.
A LATE Berlin dispatch says the gov
eminent is not relaxing It's precautions
against the evasion of conscrlption,
even to facilitate the departure Of soci-
alists. One Mandi, naturalized Amer
lean, has been prohibited from lectur-
ing in Berlin on the improved prospects
of the western states of America, on
the ground that not only socialists, but
a considerable portion of well-to-do
Germans would emigrate.
The employees in the manufactured
iron trade of the north of England,
present claim before the arbitrators of
a per cent. reduction, IN consequence
of the depression OF business. The men
claim that the price of labor is now lower
than it has been IN the past twenty
years. The newspapers continue to
publish accounts of the distress through
out the country which the authorities
and private citizens are endeavOring to
relieve.
A BERLIN dispatch of December ODD,
says: The emperor is wonderfully
well. He daily listens to long re-
ports on pubic affairs, and gives audi
ences. Bismarck, too, is working hard
on financial matters, while Il COM
mittee of three Prussian members and
representation Of the other states
have been appointed to elaborate a
scheme of tax reform, which, when
ripe, will be laid before the Reichstag for
approval.
A DISPATCH from Lahore reports that
Yakoob Khan has been proclaimed by
the chiefs of one Of the great Afghan
sections. Opinion is divided as to his
future course, but the detection of the
ameer's troops, who, at Jelallabad even,
Joined the British, will probably compel
him to accept The terms if coupled
with guarantee against his father and
the Russians. This might obviate even
the temporary occupation Of Cabul by
British troops.
A DISPATCH from Jellalabad De-
cember oath says Major Cavagnari
on the Goth received an inn
portant communication from the
ameer, the contents Of which are not
vet made known. A dispatch from
Lahore reports that Iakoob Khan has
been proclaimed king by the chiefs of
one of the great Afghan sections. Opn-
ion is divided as to his future course,
but the detection Of the ameer's troops,
who at Jellalabad even joined the
British, will probably compel him to
accept terms of peace coupled with a
guarantee against his father and the
Russians. This might obviate even the
temporary occupation of Cabul by the
British troops Another cablegrdm
of the same date from Gen. Brown
says: We occupied the city to-
day, the inhabitants are friendly. The
notables of Jellalabad came out tomeet
the British troops. Same dispatch
also says that the ameer left Cabul
on the 10Th inst.
A London telegram of Dec. 25th says;