Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-08-11

the amendments made 10 the land bill Of
lie hcuse Q! lords.
JOHN DILLON has been released from
Kilmainham Jail and driven quietly
| away.
A MYSTERIOUS disease is killing the deer
| in the parks of upper Bavaria, and is
| spreading TO the cattle.
BAKER PASTA will shortly leave Eng
| land tn take command of the Turkish
troops in Tripoli.
THE Cornell university crew has reached
| Vienna, where it will compete with an
| Austrian party on August H.
| BLIGHT has destroyed thousands of
| acres of wheat in Roumania, and the
yield will not be over so PEI cent. of the
| average.
| AT secret consistory recently the
pope declared that the recent disturb
| ances proved that the vicar of Christ en-
joyed neither liberty nor safety in Rome.
GREENBERG, rihilist of noble birth has
been arrested at Belgrade. Documents
found on his person show designs on the
lives of the car and Emperor William.
A LONDON dispatch announces that the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts Bartlett and her
husband will reach the United States in
| October and remain several months.
| AN explosion in mine at Lourches
| France, killed ten persons and seriously
| injured twenty.
The papal nuncio at Paris has been or
dered to take no active part in the forth
coming elections.
The French and Italian commissis ners
to negotiate treaty of commerce have
held their first sitting at Rome.
TIE latest arrests in ireland under the
coercion act were those of Murphy and
Champion, two of the principal m embers
of the Rathdowney branch Land League.
! THE police of st. Petersburg announce
| the defeat of another scheme for the MUIR
der of the czar. the assassin selected being
a lady of high family.
IT is rumored that the prince of Wales
has been advised not to give dinners on
board his yacht at Osborne, for fear of
Fenian plots.
BRADLAUGH, with his arm in sling,
| addressed gathering of fifteen thousand
persons at Northampton, and was loudly
cheered.
| A FRENCH feet arrived on Sunday off
| the Tunisian town of Gabes, and landed a
force without opposition. Two adjacent
villages had to be taken by assault, in
which the French had seven wounded.
Two hundred sailors occupy Gabes.
The attorney general of Mexico decides
that congress can annul railway grants if
| it finds that the president has exceeded
the authority given him to act between
F., the sessions.
| BRADLAUGH has made another attempt
to enter the British house of commons.
He was removed from the lobby by the
police and escorted into the palace yard,
where he stood for some time with his
arms folded, three officers barring his way
to the house.
AT a banquet to the English ministers,
| Gladstone expressed the hope that they
were on the way toward general peace.
| He declared the attempt to break up the
| kingdom of Afghanistan an error which
taught painful lesson.
No one will be permitted to accompany
Bradlaugh into the lobby of the house of
| commons, and Gladstone will move his
detention should he attempt to force an
entrance into the house. Rooms in the
clock tower have been prepared for him /.
KING ALFONSO will soon inspect the
arsenal of Ferroll and the harbor of Nigo,
where the cabinet proposes to spend sew
eral hundred thousand dollars in works
of defense. Early in September the kings
of Spain and Portugal will meet to in
augurate railway between the two
Kingdoms, traversing the valley of the
Douro.