Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-07-28

trial for manslaug liter arising from the
| Victoria disaster.
THE municipality OF Paris has voted
100000 francs for an enlargement of the
water supply.
A DESTRUCTIVE coIton-worm has APP
peared in one of the provinces of Egypt,
and the cattle-plague in another.
THE proposed independent German ca
Bile to the United States will be laid from
Emden, Prussia.
IT is reported that during the lombard
ment Of Sfax four hundred Arabs were
killed and like number wounded
ANDRoFF, the socialist banished from
Hamburg, has sailed for the United States
| with three companions.
MINISTER MOVES has been ban9ueted by
his countrymen in Paris, with J. Meredith
Read in the chair
AN Irish boy named Patrick T. Hickie.
was imprisoned in London for threatening
to kill Secretary Forster unless he emptied
kilmainham Jail.
ARTHUR LEROY, the London journalist,
has been committed for trial on the charge
of numbering Z. j. Gold on the Brighton
express train.
HE announcement comes IRON the
vatican that Rev. William Wigger has
been appointed bishop of Newark, and
Rev. N. j. O'Farrell bishop of Trenton.
THE British government has rendered
to Lord Edward Fitzmaurice, brother of
the marquis of Lansdowne, the colonial
| under secretaryship.
THE troops of the bev of Tunis are de-
sorting by hundreds. A French regiment
will guard the acqueducts. attempts being
made to destroy il.
THE authorities of London have stopped
watering the streets, on account of the
limited supply. In Paris there Is some
that the water is running short.
DR.. ODoNovAN, an English newspaper
correspondent, has been for some time i'm
prisoned by the Russians at Merv. The
Russians have chronic dislike to Jour
nalists, native or foreign.
TUE sultan Of Morocco has appealed to
the porte to stop the agitation in north
Africa, lest instruction and the separa-
ton of the Barbary states from Turkish
rule shall be the result.
THE nihilists have abandoned their
meetings at St. Petersburg, and now hold
teGtiye was shot dead when found al a Sc
cret meeting
THE church bells at Geneva Switzer-
land, were rung by shock of earthquake
on Friday morning. There was percep-
tible tremor at Lyons and Grenoble,
France.
Two EMPLOYEES of the Spanish bank at
Matanzas robbed the institution of $780,
in specie, and sailed on the steamer Ali
cante, which they had previously char
tered under pretense of bringing cattle
from Mexico.
The customs officers at Liverpool re-
port having found on the steamer Malta
in what purported to be barrels of Ameri-
can cement six boxes containing internal
machines prepared with dynamite. A
similar discovery was made on board the
Bavarian,
DEAN STANLEY died in London, of cry
sipeias The sacrament was administered
in the morning by Canon Farrar. The
archbishop OF Canterbury arrived in time
for few parting words. The dean will
be buried in Westminster abbey, beside
his wife
THE war between Chill and Peru is not
yet over. The Peruvians now content
themselves with attacks on isolated bands
OF their country's enemies, and in this
desultory mode they seem 20 obtain more
success than they did in pitched battles.
In all recent skirmishes the Chilans are
reported to have suffered severely