Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-06-23
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THE gate receipts at the Paris races on
Sunday were nearly S5O, 900.
THE Irish squadron will be reinforced
by the steel steamer Sea Horse.
SEVERAL German banking-houses have
proffered aid to the projectors of Ger
man university in one of tie western
states of America.
THE Dublin Land League received only
e40 from the United States last week
FRENCH troops under General Detrie
had battle with party of Algerian in
surgents, killing fifty of them
VIM Bou.icAULT, brother of the dra-
matist, died suddenly in railway carri-
age, near London.
CHARLES GEIsB ERG, formerly city trea s.
urer o. Milwaukee, took his own life at
Frankfort on-the Main.
AN Italian exploring party comprising
one officer, four soldiers, and ten sailors,
was massacred in the interior of Abys-
sinia.
SENATOR CORNWALL, who has accepted
the governorship of British Columbia, is
direct descendant of King John, of En-
gland.
kEoGH, the first man arrested at Linn
erick under the coercion act, has been re-
leased. The latest capture is that of the
secretary of the Loughrea branch of the
Land league.
ONE THOUSAND men of the French army
in Tunis have sailed for home. Those
now in hospital number less than FIVE
hundred.
In the Italian chamber of deputies a
proposition for woman suffrage received
one vote. On the question of universal
suffrage the vote was 314 nays to 80 yeas
IT is believed that Prince Alexander
will submit to a vote of the people the
question whether or not he shall remain
on the throne of Bulgaria.
THE ferry over the Volga is scarcely
able to transport the hordes of Russian
peasants emigrating into Siberia from the
government of Tomsk.
CHANG TsAN YU, prominent revenue
official in China, has been selected to sue
coed Chan Ian Pin as minister TO the
United States, and will cross the Pacific
in the fall.
Advices direct from Panama are to the
effect that canal stations have been aban-
doned, workmen have been discharged,
and many Engineers have returned to
Paris
THE South Dublin guardians have re-
solved to ship to the United States thirty
seven able-bodied paupers, who have been
in the work house from three to twenty
FIVE years.
NOLAN, home-rrle member for Galway,
was granted leave to introduce in the
house of commons bill to suspend evic-
tons in Ireland for limited period, on
payment of six months rent.
THE attempt to blow up the Liverpool
Town Hall has scared the British govern
ment No one is allowed to enter the
House of Commons with parcels, and the
police keep watchful care for the per-
sonal safety of the Cabinet Ministers.
THE British Government is said to be
determined to crush intimidation in Ire
land. The riot at Clonmel, county Tip
perary, was serious affair, from which
several deaths will. it is expected, result,
FIFTEEN thousand people assembled in
Millstreet, near Cork, formed in process
sion and paraded with M usic, but made no
attempt to organize meeting, A strong
force Of military and police were on hand.
IT is reported that the celebrated nihi-
list, Hartmann, who attempted to assassi-
nate the late car, was recently arrested
by German authorities, conveyed to the
Russian frontier, and there handed over
to the tender mercies of the Russian au-
thoritiea
SUFFERING from a grievance in the way
of overtime, twelve hundred British pos
tai telegraph employees have called ma
tional conference to take place in Liver
pool at the end of the month. The au-
thorities have taken precautions to avert
strike by making concessions.
TWELVE HUNDRED postal-telegraph OPP
orators in London have called meeting
of all the postal-telegraph operators in
Great Britain to organize general strike.
There is fine prospect that one of the
beauties of postal telegraphy will short
ly be presented for the admiration not
only of all Englishmen. but good many
American admirers of the system.
O'DoSovAN Rosa boasts that the plot
to destroy the town hall at Liverpool is a
part of the skirmishing plan. He claims
that last December he received informa-
ton that explosive materials had beer
placed in the hold of the British war-ship
Dolero