Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-10-06
FOREIGN.

fOtLE1b-N.
Thomas Joseph Byrnes, premier OF
Queensland, is dead.
The pope fayors the annexation oil
the Philippines to the United States.
The Hispano-A American peace com
mission held its first meeting in Paris
Gen. Wade, instead of Gen. Lee, viii
probably command the troops sent tC
Havana.
Chaplain Mcintyre OF the oregon
is being court martialed for talking
too much
Major-Gen. w. H. Graham has re-
tired from the regular army under the
age limit.
Paul Deroulede announced that he
will revive the French League OF
Patriots.
President Errazuriz of Chilli has
suffered a paralytic shock, but hi
condition is improving.
At LIMA, Peru Senior Jose X. Puentc
was named for minister OF war and
took the oath of office.
the United States from Honolulu, by
order of the war department.
Esterhazy's latest confession is re-
garded in London as an effort to re-
gain favor in the French army.
Danger of a Franco-English wal
over Fashoda, on the White Nile, is
past. The place is a British post.
Secretary Alger says the soldiers
themselves were largely responsible
for the bad condition of their camps.
Emperor William, in an address al
the opening of the new harbor al
Stettin, said, Our future lies on the
water,
General Lawtons latest report
shows 1000 sick in the army at San
tlago and four deaths on Septem'
Der %,
1t is considered certain in Washing
ton that some European power is
backing Spain in the Philippine ne
gotiations.
Edhem Pasha, the Turkish military
governor of Crete, has been recalled
and Cheika has been appointed Il
succeed him.
The eruption of Vesuvius is in
creasing in violence, and it is feared
/ that 1t will assume the proportions o
, that of 1872.
The United States has offered t
protect Uruguay in maintaining neu
trality should war break out between
/ Chilli and Argentina,
The Italian government, in not
to the car suggests that he limi
the discussions Of his proposed peace
conference strictly to the question o
disarmament.
4 preliminary session of the British
Venezuelan court of arbitration vii
be held in Paris in January, when ;
postponement will probably be ar
ranged until May
A dispatch from st. Louis. Senegal
states that Soudanese sharpshooter
in the French service defeated al
army of Sofas, under one of Samory'
chiefs, capturing 5000 men.
An imperial edict has been ISSUED
at Picking expressing regret at thu
emperor's increasing i'll health an'
commanding the governors of all pro
ylnces to send their best physicians t
Peking.
Sir John V. Moore, alderman OF tn
city Of London and senior partner o
the Moore Brothers, leather mer
chants, was elected lord mayor o
London to succeed Horatio Dayi,
Davies.
Il is reported that the pope has re
quested the Catholic bishops an,
clergy of France. as well as the cleri
cal newspapers, to discontinue thei
campaign against revision Of tn
nreyfus trial
The Colombian government ha
rerousidered the decree recently is
sued seyerius diplomatic relation
with italy. and the British ministe
rs now recognized as representing
Italian interests there in the absenc
of the italian minister.
III Is semi officially announced Il
Vienna that II the Turkish govern
mput replies unfavorably TO Che lie
mands of tine powers respecting Crete
which must he complied with by Oc
tober H. the powers viii blockade Ger
tain places in Crete BY land and sea
The report that the work OF the Re
Cross society In Guarahacoa Is 10 :
discontinued causes grave aDpreheu