Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1896-10-29
From Foreign Shores.

From Foreign Shores.
German capitalists invested heavily
! in Venezuela.
The rebellion Of the PHILIPPINES grows
| more serious for Spain.
! Salisbury says England can do moth.
ing with Turkey in connection with the
Armenians.
Ii Hung Chang has arrived at Pekin
| and will shortly present his report to
the emperor.
DR.. Hager of Zurich has discovered
an unpublished concert overture by
Wagner.
The Emperor and Empress of Ger
| many will visit the Car and CZarina
Of Russia next summer.
Gen. Bolin, the Panama canal di-
rector, has returned TO Colon, Colon
bia, from Paris. He brought with him
from the West Indies $50 laborars to
work upon the canal.
Emperor William and Empress All
! g,lsta received an enthusiastic greet
ing at Port Westphalia, where he went
to attend the unwilling of the monu-
ment erected in honor of Emperor
William l.
Councillor Levy, one of the best
known lawyers in Berlin, Germany,
was stabbed to death in his bed by two
burglars, and lis wife was so badly in-
jured that she had to be sent to hos
pital. The murderers escaped.
Fire completely wiped out the big
drug establishment of Scott & Brown,
at Belleville, Ont. L. w. Yoemans, the
proprietor, and one of the best known
business men in Eastern Ontario, was
burned to death.
Mustapha Tahsin Bey, the new Turk
iSh minister, arrived at Washington and
was met by NIavroyeni Bey, the retir-
ing minister. and the officials of the
legation.
Prince Lobanoff, before he became
premier of Russia, it is said, had no
great liking for work, but he became
consumed with a passion for industry
on his appointment, and when he had a
great object in view he was tireless.
The marriage of Ugo Blondi, the
! young Florentine dramatic artist. and
Miss Gertrude Bal, niece of Manager
Albert Bal of New York, has been post
poned for two weeks. Some papers
that are to be signed have NJ. yet ar
rived from Italy.
The Portuguese bark Venus, Capt.
Pinto, mailing from Lisbon, foundered
in a gale OF Oct. 8, off Skomer island
twenty persons were drowned. The
Venus was bark Of 647 tons register
and was built in 1862 at Liverpool. Her
owners We're Rodriguez and Rosa.
The Havana police have arrested
three men said to be delegates from the
lnsurgent juDta in New York charged
with conspiring to blow up buildings
by the use Of dynamite in order to Gre
ate panic and plumber the city. There
are said to be thirty-two men engaged
in the plot.
The grand jury at London found a
true bill against Lady Scott, mother
ln-laW of Earl Russell, who is charged
by the latter with criminal libel, in con-
junction with two young men, who
were arrested with her on the same
charge.
The London Daily News has Berlin
dispatch which says that batch of Al
sation recruits who were travelling on
the railway mutinied and wrecked the
railroad carriages and shouted "Vive La
France" This is supposed to indicate
q revival of Chauvinism since the Cars
visit.
Simon Duck of Victoria, b. c., is a
seventh son of seventh son. In 1867
he left London in the seventh month,
on the seventh day of the week, and
arrived in this country on the 7th of
the following month. When seeking
election to the colonial parliament he
was elected on the It'll Of the seventh
month by majority of seven. In the
following election he was defeated by
!. the same myhmical number.