Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-26
maritime, observatory at Hamburg, is

maritime, observatory at Hamburg, is
dead.
Revision Of the methods of taxation
Is asked by radical members of the
British commons, who propose 4 gradu-
ated scale.
Negotia ton for mutual action in the
destroying of derelicts are pending
between the United States and Great
Britain.
\ fresh cabinet crisis exists in Bel.
grade. The king is comforting with
the opposition. leaders. 49,.
Clericals in the reichstag are spit
on the tobacco tax bin. A majority
will oppose the government.
A new projectile invented by Lieu
tenant Alfredo Gomez, Mexican off
President DiaZ. -,
1t was the Austrian consul to Paler.
mo. not the American consul, who gave
the project hint Of impending trou-
bic.
An attempt Of anarchists to cut the
cables at Massa iii Carrara led to I,
riot in which one man was killed.
The propaganda at Rome has re
fused to take any action OH the peti
ton of the creditors OF the late Arch
bishop of Purcell of CINCINNATI.
The steamer City Of Pekin was
caught in a typhoon off the coast OF
Japan and nearly wrecked. Captain
Searle was injured
Details of the massacre of Capt
Wilson and his little command of 3.
in Africa show that they We're drawn
into trap by the Matabeles and sold
their lives dearly.
1t is announced upon fairly good
authority that the Russian delegates
have agreed to the proposed Russo
German commercial treaty, and thai
the dura ton OF the treaty, us agreed
upon, is to be 10 years.
A bill was introduced into the pro
yincial legislature at Halifax, n. S..
comforting the franchise ON women
1t is modifica tion of the bill intro
duced and defeated last session, anG
it is expected that it will pass.
prison of Valiant, the condemned
French anarchist, has been doubled in
consequence of fear that the anarchists
may attempt to cause an explosion
in or about the DriSOn
Several postal officials and number
Of prominent citizens, residents of the
Russian frontier towns of RuGnik anG
Raszkh, have been suddenly arrested
on the charge Of circulating nihilis1
literature issued by the students OF
the Warsaw university.
Two Americans giving the names OF
John Harden, of Washington, an(
Frank Glover of San Francisco, have
been sentenced each to 30 months i'm
prisonment in Berlin for swindlins
Il number of jewelers..
Two boys, named Owens and Combs
while skating at the foot Of York stree
at Toronto, Ont, broke through the
ice and were drowned. Two Others
of Il large party of skaters are miss
ing, and it is thought that they als(
were drowned.
Lieut.. John G. Conway and 40 sea
men, who formerly formed a part Of
the crew of the dynamite cruiser Mic
theroy, fitted out in New York, reached
Southampton and left for New York
While strolling in the streets one OF
the party, known as 'Dick" Nilsson
dropped dead. The men are very bit
ter at the treatment they received.
Judge TAFT in the superior court a
Montreal dimissed the appeal Of thu
Richelieu and Ontario navigation com
pany from the award of the insurance
arbitrator in the case of the steamer
Corinthian, which was destroyed b,
fire last summer. The steamer was in
sured for $4,000, but the compan!
was awarded only $4,000.