Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-05-21

Royal academy, is suffering from can
Ger of the throat.
All Cuba is wrought up by report
tEat the Bermuda has landed men and
arms east of Cardenas.
Captain General Weyler has ordered
the expulsion from Cuba of two New
York Newspaper correspondents,
The duke of Orleans is thought to be
on the point of issuing a manifesto
against Prince Henry his cousin.
Emperor William told an intimate
that it would be better for him Ito
fetch the old man" Qismarck) back.
Mgr. Louis Galimberti formerly
papal ambassador to Austria and a
devoted friend of the pope died in
Rome.
The university riding school at Hell
delberg was burned. Four persons
were suffocated and several others had
narrow escapes.
Electricity is to be introduced upon
the street railways of Mexico city,
which have been purchased by a Lon
don syndicate.
Canada's new premier, opening the
dominion campaign at Winnipeg,
warned Manitoba that she must yield
oh the school issue.
Herr Strobach, anti-Semite, has been
elected burgomaster in the place of DR..
Lueger, who resigned at the request of
Emperor Francis Joseph.
Rev. George p. Knapp, the American
missionary who was expelled from Bit
lis by the Turkish authorities, has ar
rived in C0nStantinople in good health
News from Free Town, Sierra Leone,
is to the effect that the American mis-
sionaries at Timpany report that II
natives were recently burned alive for
Witchcraft.
1t is understood in London that sew
eral directors of the British South
Africa Chartered company will resign
unless the resignation of Cecil Rhodes
is accepted
AT Alosno, Province of Huelva, Spain
some miscreant set fire to the building
in which a dance was in progress. Six
persons were burned to death and
many We're injured in consequence.
The eXtradition Of William Turner
and William Dunlop arrested in Lon
don on the charge Of having stolen
jewelry valued at 100000 from !. Town
send Burden, of New York, was
granted.
King Humbert has donated 1000
francs to the families of the soldiers
campaign and 100000 francs to the
Red Cross society for the benefit of the
wounded.
At the inquest held in London upon
the remains of the late Colonel North,
a physician testified that he had pre-
viously noticed symptoms of heart dis
ease, which, he asserted, was the cause
OF the coloneps death.
The Dervishes have arrived at Adar-
anna in a dismayed condition The
families of Osman Dgna and other
leaders have fled to FL Damir. ON the
Nile. 1t is reported that 1000 Der
wishes have been ordered to reinforce
Dongola.
The court-martial of the men cap
tured on the filbustering schooner
Competitor was held at Havana The
prosecutor demanded the death sen
tcnce against the men and Admiral
Navarro who presided, approved of the
demand.
The United States cruiser MinneapO-
lis, on her way from the Mediterranean
to Cronstadt where she will represent
the United States navy upon the occa
sion of the cars coronation fetes,
anchored at Southampton and ex-
changed salutes with the warships and
forts
At Frankford on the Main Sunday
was celebrated the signing of the treaty
which concluded war 1S71O The en-
peror and empress were there. After
the service at the church the emperor
with great ceremony unveiled a monu-
ment to his grandfather, Emperor
William |.
Secretary Chamberlain announced
the policy of the British government in
regard to South African affairs to be
in favor of joint commission of both
houses to inquire into the whole stu
alton TO prevent any further distur-
bance occurring there while urging a
redress OF the grievances in the Trans
yaal.
Serious disturbances have taken
place at Akshehr between the Kurds
and Armenians who are connected with
The work OF constructing the railway
between AkShehr and Konieh in Asia
Minor, but no details of the rioting have
yet been received at COnstantinople.
The number of arrests of Armenians
IL Constantnople has recently been
largely increased