Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-02-10
FOREIGN

FOREIGN.
Fire caused loss of 100000 at
Winnipeg.
| Fatal earthquakes occur in Asia
Minor.
War between Sweden and Norway is
seriously talked Of.
Bulgaria presented an ultimatum to
Turkey.
British and Moroccan steamers
fought and several Moors were killed
1t is believed at Nagasaki that japan
is preparing for war
Spaniards, in the hope Of saving
Cuba, attempt to array Europe against
America.
Rev. Joseph Carsons, ID. D., vice pro
vost of the University of Dublin since
1890, is dead.
Blanco IL on his way to Havana
having failed in his mission to east,
ern Cuba
Lord William Nevill Was committed
for trial in London, charged with
forgery bail being not allowed.
The engineering works throughout
England and Scotland were opened,
the great strike having been settled.
The village OF Weissenburgbad,
Switzerland, has been destroyed by
fire. Only the original hotel was
saved
Secretary Sands of the American
90. C,,nI T,raa ,uac raoant1v
assaulted by a gang Of Japanese cool
les at NagasaN.
A special dispatch from Shanghai
reports that Germany demands that
Port Arthur and Ia Lien Wan, in
China, be made free ports.
General Westmacott has recovered
% bodies of the British slain in India
en- Saturday and has inflicted heavy
less upon the enemy
A bomb was exploded at the house
of ex-Mayor Diaz Of Havana by d
former prisoner. The report was
heard throughout the city.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua says
his government desires to deal directly
with the United States in the build
ing of the canal.
TIE president has published a decree
diss1iving the congress of Uruguay.
All troops are to remain under arms.
as a evolution seems imminent
Russia has 10000 troops about Port
Arthur, a Shanghai despatch reports
and China has consented to have
Russians at the head of her customs
and railways.
Reports from Australia show that
intense heat prevails there, the Their
mometer registering 124 degrees in
the shade, Work and sleep are almost
impossible.
Sir Tatton Sykes has obtained an
injunction restraining Lady Sykes and
pawnbroker from selling family
heirlooms, which Lady Sykes had
pawued
/ Russia's foreign minister has noti-
/ fed Turkey thar it is the ears un-
alterabe determination that Prince
George cf Greece shall be nominated
fol governor of Certe.
4 A dispatch form st, Petersburg gives
interviews with two Russian officers,
who indicate that Russia is prepared
TO back up with force her opposition
TO Engiand's plans in China.
The mail steamer Channel Queen.
which ran between Plymouth. Eng
land, and the island OF Jersey. struch
on the rocks of the island of Guern,
sey during a fog and sank. Nneteop
persons We're drowned
The Manchester Guardian announce,
that the difficulty in the far east has
been solved by the opening of Port
Arthur and Kiao Chow to trade, Grea,
Britain Withdrawing her demand for
the opening of Ta-Lien-Wan
Spanish military operations In Cubt
continue almost paralyzed. the season
most favorable for movements
against the insurgents thus bein.
lost On Friday the insurgents en-
tered the town of Artemisa, province
OF Pinar del Rio and pmndered sey.
oyai Spanish stores
The italian minister for foreign af-
fairs announced in the chamber of dep
uties that no agent Of the Italian gov
eminent ever had any relations with
Albert Dreyfus, the former French Of,
ficer who was condemned to life i'm.
prisonmeut for selling military secrets
TO a foreign government