Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-08
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work on tbs Panama Canal.
MILD forms Of cholera have appeared
at st. Petersburg and towns in Rus
| sia.
! A PANIC prevails at Foo Choo owing
! 20 the belief that war between China
and France is considered inevitaolc.
COUNT CARL LEMENHAUHT Swedish
! Minister to America, viii replace Baron
! Zibber as minister at Paris.
! AT the Goodward races Wednesday
the contest for the Stewards cup was
won by Gerard's bay horse Sweet.
! bread.
THE lumber yard of Senor Zabola, at
Matanzas, was totally destroyed by fire
Saturday, involving loss of $780,
| 030.
THE British Parliament will be pro-
rogued August till October 3D.
A MILD case Of cholera was reported
in one O. the Paris hospitals on Mon
day.
| THE city of Marash, in Asia Minor.
has had very destructive conflagration,
consuming over 200 buildings and a
| thousand stores, shops, etc.
! AT d large miners demonstration at
| Barnsley Monday, resolutions were
adopted demanding the abolition of the
| House of Lords.
A DISASTROUS fire at Marash, Asia
Minor, Monday. One thousand shops,
200 houses, four hotels, three mosques,
and the municipal palace were destroy
ed.
THE Mark Lane Express, in its weekly
review of the British corn trade, says
the harvest is in better condition than
a week ago, and owing to warm weather
the work of harvesting is rapidly pro-
ceeding.
THE conference Of the powers of Eu-
rope in reference to the future of Egypt
finally adjourned sine die, nothing hav-
ing been accomplished toward a definite
decision.
In the House of Lords Friday the
Manchester ship canal bill was adopted
The contagious disease bill passed to a
third reading.
New York, July Is, for London was
Epglard, by colidIng with the steamer
Belle Cairn. No lives lost.
AT Warwick Friday the trial of the
dynamiter5 was concluded. Mcdonnell,
who pleaded guilty TO treason-felony,
was released on bail to appear any time
if called upon. James Egan was SEN
fenced to penal servitude for twenty
years and john Daily tsr life.
THE Spanish troops at Puert Principe,
Cuba, not having been paid and heing
refused credit, helped themselves to
provisions at the stores. The Captain
General cause. $500 to be remitted to
the scene.
THE port of Puclya, in Spain, is de-
Jared infected with cholera. The ports
below Cadiz and Ayamonte, both inclu-
sive, arc also suspected of being infect
THE lives Of the physicians in French
towns are in peril, the ignorant lower
classes of the population having got
notion that the Government and the
doctors aIe i'll league with the cholera
in order to reduce the surplus popula-
ton.
A FATAL incident occurred Last night
in the public garden at Cunstadt, in
Wurtmnberg. Several Erenchmen were
rejoicing over the recent insult I" the
German flag in Paris, when an elderly
German approached and demonstrated
with them. This gave rise to quarrel,
and one of the Frenchmen dealt the
German Il ia al blow.
THE classification of the deaths from
cholera, according to the nationality of
the victims, gives the following results:
French, 19S; Italians, 322; Spanish. 13;
Greek, 8: English, 1; Austr an, l; Ger
man, /; Anne rican, |. There We're nine
deaths from cholera in Marseilles Tues
day night, and thirteen ia Toulon. The
situation in the infected districts con-
tinues to improve.
A DISPATCH from Foo Choo to the
Times states that there is great tension
ana excitement in that city among the
foreigners and Chinese. The French
men-of-war off the port are under steam
and cleared foraction. y high authori-
ty i'll Foo ChoO, however, declares that
peace will certainly be maintaiAed.
INQUIRY into the conspiracy to blow
up the palace during the Cars visit to
Warsaw shows the elaborate and far
reaching plans were adopted. The con-
spirators after numbering the Gar. in
tcndcd to provoke rebellion in Poland
and Western Russia, to plumber the
Jews and rich tradesmen in Warsaw,
and to receive the arms in the arsenal.
DR.. KOCH. the noted German cholera
expert. who has been visiting the in
fected districts. has addressed his re-
sort to Bismarck. DR.. Koch criticises
severely the want of precautIon shown
by the English government in taking
measures TO prevent the spread of the
epidemic. Should cholera appear in
England DR.. Koch advises the strongest
measures against all vessels sailing from
England.