Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-05-07
FOREIGN MATTERS.

FOREIGN MATTERS.
The Matabele lines are drawing
closer around the town OF Buluwayo.
Heinrich Gotthard Won Treitschke,
the German historian, Is dead. He was
born in 1884.
The existence of a secret Russo
Chinese treaty is officially denied a.
St. Petersburg.
Both Argentina and Chill have
signed the protocol fixing the bound
airy between their frontiers.
1t is said that Gen. Maceo has given
orders to hang any man suspected OF
trying to desert from the army.
The bishop Of Madrid and the
bishops elsewhere in Spain are calling
meetings TO organize volunteer bat
taIions to fight in Cuba.
The refusal of President Kruger to
visit England was announced in the
house of commons and explained by
Secretary Chamberlain.
A German force defeated a large
body of Hottentot rebels in Damara-
land on April 8, killing 46 of them.
The German loss was eight killed.
There is reason to fear serious out
breaks of yellow fever in Rio Ianeiro
and Cuba this year. A number OF
deaths have already been reported,
The ice bridge at Cape Rouge, above
Quebec, was lifted by the nigh tide
Yesterday and is moving out Nayiga-
ton to Montreal will now commence.
collision occurred at Woo Sung be-
tween the steamers New Chwang and
on Wo. The latter sank and over 200
persons. mostly Chinese, were
drowned.
The Dutch forces are Smelling
Lampisang. the chief village OF Toe
koemar, Java, the leader OF the
Achinez. who rejected the ultimatum
Of HOLLAND.
Since Gen. Weyler's proclamation OF
amnesty was made, it is said the in
surgent leaders have had to exercise
great rigor to prevent their soldiers
from deserving.
Sir Mackenzie Bowel, Canadian
premier. has resigned and 1t is ex-
pected that Governor General Aber-
deen will summon Sir Charles Upper
to form new cabinet.
1t was stated in the house of com
mons that the negotiations upon the
general question of arbitration between
the United States and Great Britain
are proceeding satisfactorily.
A dispatch from Havana, Cuba, says
that the destruction of property in the
western tobacco districts has been
enormous, and that suffering among
the people is on the increase
NJ. Meline, the rCted French protee-
zionist leader, has succeeded in forming
cabinet. The radicals and socialists
are, however, displeased with the min
istry and are expected to oppose it,
Prince Christian of Schleswig- Hol-
stein. husband of Queen Victoria's
daughter Princess Helen, was knocked
down BY cab in Praed street, Lon
don. and slightly hurt in the ribs.
II is reported at Paisley, Scotland,
that the Coates and Clarke thread
manufacturing business will be ANAL
gamated and that a central agency
viii be established in the United
States,
Godfrey Drage. member of parlia-
ment for Derby, was married to Miss
Ethel Ismay, eldest daughter OF Mr.
Ismay, of the White Star Line OF
steamships. The ceremony took place
in Cheshire.
Another hearing was given 10 the
Jameson Transvaal raiders in London
and the case was again adjourned until
June IL, in order to permit OF the ar
rival of important witnesses from
South Africa,
1t was necessary for United States
Charge d'Aftaires Riddle, at Constan-
tinople, to order the gunhoat Marble
head 10 AleXandretta before the Turk
ish authorities would deliver Mission
airy Knapp to the consul at that place.
Sentence of death has been pro-
nounced upon Messrs. Phillips, Ham
mond, Farrar and Rhodes. Of the
johannesburg reform committee, who
recently pleaded guilty OF high treason
against the Transvaal. but the men
will be merely fired and banished.
The reichstag committee, by a vote
OF l. to 3, has passed the sugar tax
bill. including a proviso that the sec
tons dealing with excise tax and ex-
port bounties expire July 81, 1908, and
that the tax on consumption then be
reduced to is marks and the import
duty to sc marks,
THE ODD WAISTS STILL WITH US.