Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-12-09

The court OF appeals refused to ad-
NIT woman to the practice OF law in
the Paris courts.
DR.. Won Narquardson, the eminent
jurist and professor of Erlangen uni
versity, Munich, Is dead.
Lord Nevill is charged by Lieuten-
ant Clay with obtaining his signature
to promissory notes by fraud.
Three hundred vessels and one hun
dred lives are believed to have been
lost during the recent gales on the
British coast
Dreyfus has been made complete
wreck by the harshness Of his i'm
prisonment on Devils Island.
| The report OF collision between
| British and French forces in West
Africa proves to have been unfounded
Newspapers express the opinion that
the entire cabinet will resign; that
Meline will undertake to form a new
one.
Sir Henry Arthur Blake, captain
general and governor-in-chief OF
Jamaica since 1889, has been appointed
governor of Hong Kong.
Owing to a defeat in the French SEN
ate on the motion of Darla, minister
of justice. to shelve the discussion of
the removal of magistrate
Hiram Maxin's new quick firing gun
was tried at Portsmouth with re-
| markable results With rs pounds OF
cordite 1t showed an effective range OF
10000 yards.
The German government has aban-
dCned it's intention of sending a war
ship to Hayti to enforce the demand
for indemnity for the Imprisonment
of Emil Lueders.
Sir Walter George Frank Phillimore
baronet. vice-president Of the English
Church union and chancellor of the
diocese of Lincoln, has been appointed
to judgeship.
Plans for putting Guatemala on a
gold basis are being discussed by
| President Barrios and the cabinet
When the scheme is perfected it will
be laid before congress.
The Novosti in ST. Petersburg con
! tends that the growth of German in
| fiuence in the near and far east viii
necessitate union of Great Britain,
| Russia and France for the protection
of their interests.
The pope has appointed Archbishop
p. l.. Chapelle of Santa Fe, N. NJ, to
| In III, ch. Of Ot-In
Rev. Father Fitzmaurice Of Williams
port, Pa, to be coadjutor bishop OF
Erie, Pa.
A dispatch from Berlin says the
| government at Washington has in
| timated to the German government
that the United States will not tolerate
| the annexation or undue punishment
of Hayti by Germany.
1t is authoratively denied that Tod
| Sloane. the American jockey, has con-
tracted to ride for the prince oil
Wales. 1t is not probable that SLOANE
will ride in England next year, owing
to American engagements.
The Austrian cabinet resigned anc
| lHtlG TtSlSIdllOlS WtiC utN0PNSNs ~
announcement stlled the tunult II
the streets of Vienna, where the police
had repeatedly charged the crowds
with drawn swords, wounding many
persons.
An officer of the guards named Clay
Is being sued at London by money
lender for Eli, 113, due on two promis
sorry notes cashed for Lord William
Nevill. Clay charges that Nevill Sc
cured his Endorsement by trick ano
says he supposed he was witnessing
Nevilrs signature to family documents
In Paris Miss Sbyl Sanderson, the
opera singer, was married to Antonio
Terry. His first wife died in Septem
Der after % years of welded Ire
There were cross suits for divorce al
the time His father is Cuban sugar
king. Miss Sanderon is the daughter
of a California Judge, and a famous
beauty. When the late Mrs. Terry IN
stituted divorce proceedings in Paris
In which her husband preferred coun
ter charges, she added the name o.
Miss Slnderson to list or SIX co
respondents.