Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-28
FOREIGN.
TYpHus fever RACES in France.
The duke of Newcastle is dead.

TYpHus fever RACES in France.
The duke of Newcastle is dead.
YELLOW FEVER is increasing at an
alarming vote in Rio Janeiro.
ANOTHER revolution has broken out in
Hayti.
TRANQUILITY has been restored in
Egypt.
SIX inches of snow fell in London
Feb. Dist.
JOHN PARRY, the English singer, and
John Clark, an English comedian, are
dead.
THE French atlantic cable is broken
1G1 miles from ST. Pierre, Miqueron,
in 500 fathoms of water.
SEVERAL large failures have recently
occurred in London and elsewhere
throughout England.
THE Ameer Of Alghnnistan is said to
be still on Afghan territory, mt Khulm,
or Tashkurgan, south of the Oxus.
RUSSIAN military contractors stole
over $50 100000 from the government
during the short war.
brazil. is coming along nicely. An
income tax is the latest proposed inn
provemcnt.
EVERY country in Europe is prepar-
ing to ward of the plague and strict
sanitary measures are being adopted.
The Egyptian Budget proposes that
the army be reduced to 10000 men
and that the remainder including
1000 officers be disbanded.
INTELLIGENCE from Burmah is to the
effect that the King has murdered all
the Royal Princes and their families,
and had set himself up MS a despot.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, son ofthe
Grand Duke Constantine, has been
exlod to Orenburg, for communicating
with the Berlin National Zeitu,,g in re-
gard to the Berlin strategic railway.
A CoNsrANTINoPLE dispatch says That
in consequence Of representations of The
u. s. consul Heap the grand vyior Aas
abandoned the proposal to replace the
the Turkish minister ut Washingtonby
" charge de- affairs.
TnEChincse government has purchs,
cd machinery and engaged experienced
engineers and spinners in Germanyto
establish cotton mill in China, SO rs
to free that country from dependence
upon English and Russian imports.
THE first detachment of troops br
the cape of Good Hope, sailed fran
England Feb. 10th. The streets of Col
chester were lined with flags and gay
with decorations, the people turning
out en- masse to bid the boys bon toyags.
A LISBON cablegram of Feb. - says
tho United States frigate Consultation,
Captain Badger, from Havre by way of
Portsmouth, England, where she repair
ed after being ashore ON the English
coast, bound for New York, has been
towcd in here with her rudder dam
aged
TIE Herald weather predictions for
tho coast Of Europe are being fulfilled
with singular exactness. Three days
before that date the Herald bureau pre-
dicted n severe storm for the 10Th and
swept over the British isles and Nor
way.
FURTHER intelligence from Mandalay,
tho cnpitnl of Burmah, states that great
CONSERVATION prevails in consequence
Of the royal murders, The victims
numbered cighty.six. The details Of
the massacre, rs reported, are horrible.
British Interference is hoped for by the
people to prevent moro bloodshcd.
A BERLIN eahlcgram says the rates
fixed in the bill proposed 10y the minis.
ter of finance for the Increased duty and
tax on tobacco are 20 marks per hun
dred weight ON imported, and 20 marks
per hundred weight on homegrown to-
bacco. The present rates are II and
~ marks, respectively,
ApylcEs from Cape Town to Jan. -,
via Madeira, are rs follows: Col. Woods
column was attacked on Jan. n by
four thousand Zulus. The enemy
were dispersed with but triiling loss
to Col. Woods command. Several nj
tacks on Pearson's column and other
columns have been repused, bat the
gravity of the situation has not been ex-
aggerated. The enemy are concentrate
ing toward Ekowe, where Pearson is
intrcnched. grand attack is daily OK
pcctod. Col. Wood is falling back to
cover Utrecht.