Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-01-20
FOREIGN.

Count Delianeff, Russian minister OF
| public instruction, is dead.
Rudolph Hertzog, the leading retail
dry goods merchant of Berlin, is dead.
Henry Stacy Marks, the English
| painter, is dead.
! A buoyant feeling concerning the
| Cuban situation prevailed in Madrid.
/ Sir Charles Hutton Geogory, the we'll
/ known English engineer died in Lon
! den.
The stringency in money in India is
| so great that il is believed gold ship
ments will be necessary.
| Consul General Lee makes report
| to the state department adverse to
autonomy in Cuba.
/ Serious rioting occurs in Havana and
an American warship will probably be
! ordered there.
| Mile Marie Louise Ney, grandniece
/ of the celebrated Marshal Ney of the
! first Napoleonic empire, was found
asphyXiated at Paris.
| Count Ferdinand Walsh Esterhazy
Of the French army, was acquitted of
| the charge of having had dealings with
| a foreign power or its agents.
! Or Jameson, the Tranvaal raider,
will not return to England at present.
He intends to become a candidate for
/ the Cape Parliament
The sending of supplies from the
! United States to INDECENT Cubaps is
said TO have aroused Spanish anfmosi-
/ y.
! The insurgents are besieging the port
Of Mayari, on the north coast of the
province of Santiago de Cuba, and
Spanish troops have been sent to re-
lieve the garrison.
CAPTAIN Reading, a wealthy German
American, died in Berlin under circum-
stances pointing TO suicide. He lived
alone in filled with loaded
weapons.
There are signs that the end Of the
glcat strike in the engineering trades OF
Great Britain Is approaching. Large
numbers of Glasgow engineers have
applied for reinstatement.
Right Hon Arthur j. Balfour hrst
lord of the treasury, made a speech at
Manchester in which he declared that
England's policy in China was for the
benefit of the world at large.
The Argentine senate has approved
bin to give bounty OF 10 centanos
per kilo on sugar exported until the
sugar expectation reaches % per cent.
Of the total production.
Great Britain has informed China
that she Is willing to find the money
needed by China, provided certain
changes in administration are made,
including the restoration of Ii Hung
Chang
A dispatch from Mombasa, capital OF
the Coast Province in the British East
African protectorate, says fighting IN
Uganda has been resumed, and that
Lieutenant Macdonald and Pilkington,
missionary, have been killed.
Eleven thousand exiled Nicaraguan
reyoutionists are reported to be con
centrated on the border in Costa Rica
ready to make an incursion into Nica'
ragua to attempt the expulsion OF
Pr, sident Zelaya,
\ dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Biarritz says the Carlist move
ment in Spain is growing so rapidly
that q rising is possible sooner than
had been expected
hi Paris the police have arrested and
imprisoned Nine. Jouffrey d'Abbans
and her paramour on the charge of
Matchmaking an army captain. she
pretended to be Major Esterhazy
yelled lady. and was examined dur
ing the inquiry
A gigantic linen thread combination
has been formed with, headquarters az
London and capital equaling that of the
Costs combination, The tolowins
firms have joined IT, Barbour & Sons
of Belias, and America, the Marshall
Thread Company of Paisley the KNOX
Company Of Kiibiruie Ayrshire, aud
several smaller firms.
The Paris Aurore publishes an open
letter from Emile Zola to President
Faure pointing cut irregularities and
illcEalties in the Esterhazy court mar
t}al and formally accusing General Bill
lot minister Of war General MERCER. /
Major Ravary. the investigating officer
and Major Patydeolam OF perjury and /
challenging the government to prose /
cute them