Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-10-22
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
George Du Maurier. the artist AM
novelist, author of Trilby, died in Lon
don.
General Trochu, who defended Pari
until the surrender to the Germans IL
1871, is dead.
Great loss of life and property b.
storm Is reported from Great Britain
| and elsewhere.
The Peruvian congress has approved
OF the treaty of friendship and com
MERGE between Peru and Japan.
Henry Byron Reed, conservative
member of the British parliament anC
a wel-known lecturer and speaker, il
dead
Count De Susini once worth $4,000,
600 adm known as the king of cigar
cite Makers" Is penniless and i'll II
the French hospital.
The French bark Corinthe, while be-
Gained recently on the coast Of Mo.
rocco, was attack I'd and pillaged by
armed Moors in boats.
Ambassador Eusticc at Paris cabled
the secretary of STAGE that Tynana will
be released. Therefore, the evident at
tempt by Great Britain to secure his
extradition failed.
Lord Rosebery said at great liberal
meeting in Edinburgh that he resigned
the party leadership because he
couldn't sacrifice national interests to
personal ambition.
A dispatch received in Madrid from
Manila says that company Of native
soldiers at Mindanao, an island If the
Malay Archipelago, has mutined and
killed its officers
Most Reverend Edward White Ben
son, Archbishop Of Canterbury, was
stricken with apoplexy while praying
in Hawarden church yesterday and
died few minutes afterward.
British warships have been ordered
to Zanzibar in connection with the
flight of the usurping Soyyid Khald
from the German cor sulate at Ianzi-
bar on board German cruiser.
Cardinal Gaotano de Ruggiero, one
OF the projects of the congregational
studies in Rome, is dead. He was a
Spaniard by birth, was born in 1916,
and was created Cardinal in 1889.
There have been ninety-Seven fresh
cases of bubonic disease at Bombay
since Oct. 3 and seventy six deaths. A
quarantine against Bombay has been
declared at Alden and at the Egyptian
ports.
The British boail of trade returns
for the three quarters ending with Sep
TENDER show that British imports in
creased $G2, 000, 600 over the same period
of 1896. For the same period the eX-
ports increased $69,000,000
Official advises from province Pinar
del Rio say another battle was fought
between the Spaniards and Cubans UNI
der Antonio Maceo, resulting In a
Spanish victory. 1t Is alleged the in
surgents sustained an enormous loss
Fighting continues.
Prince Bismarck Is reported to be
suffering from neuralgia and insomnia.
Baron Mueller, the Australian eX-
plorer, who asC ended and named many
mountains and rivers on that CONT
nent died in Melbourne, aged seventy
five years. He was bern in Germany.
The GEAR and czarina of Russia Wis
tied Versailles and were enthusiastically
cheered by the people. The municipal
council of st. Petersburg sent mes
sage to Paris appreciativc of the recep-
ton Of the ear and cZarina. 1t Is re-
Ported that a bomb was exploded in the
street In Paris Wednt sday, but the
police deny it.
1t was officially announced at
Cnstantinople that the Turkish gov
ernment has decided rot to admit the
United States cruiser Bancroft through
the Dardanelles, and, therefore, that
vessel will not be able to act as guard
ship of the United States legation in
those waters. Tho Bancroft was ord
cred from Annapolis, Md, n few weeks
ago and was fitted out at the Brooklyn
navy-yord for service abroad.