Mesa free press., 1898-03-04
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.


The Norwegian ministry has re-
signed.
The Transatlantic liner veendam
wrecked.
Osman Pasha, uncle of the Khedive
OF Egypt, is dead of apoplexy.
Gladstone and his family left Cannes
for the south of England last week.
Spain has requested the Clyde Ship
building Company to rush the work on
Spanish gunboats.
!. The relations between China and
Germany are seriously strained over
the latter's fresh demands.
Rt.-Rev. John Richardson Selwyn,
master of Delwyn College, Cambridge,
since 1893, died at Pau, France.
Nicaragua's rebellion is quashed in
its cradle. The rebels are running
pursued by Presidential troops.
Serious anti-Jewish riots are in
progress in in Paris and a large force
of police is attempting to cope with the
mob.
Spanish officials express sincere
hope that the De LONE affair will not
further strain relations with the
United States
Excellent rains in Northern and Cen
trail India have insured successful
spring crops. The plague is spreading
rapidly in Punjaub.
A Spanish newspaper announces that
the last two descendants Of Christie
pher olumbus are now occupants of a
poorhOuse at Cadiz.
The Chinese government has paid
the agreed indemnity of $4,000 to M.
Lyaudet, the Frenchman kidnapped by
Tonquin pirates in 1895.
There is talk of the betrothal of
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland to
Prince Louis Napoleon, colonel Of the
Lancers in the Russian army.
The trial of Zola continues with the
usual accompaniment of incipient
rioting; one duel under way between
Counsel Picquart and Witness Henri.
At Madrid, decree has been ga
zetted accepting the resignation of
Senior de LONE as Minister of Spain
at Washington, and severely criticis-
ing him.
The large manufacturing company
at Guaymas, Mex, is rapidly pushing
the building of large ice plant, cleo
trical light plant, lumber mill and fur
niture factory.
A long-continued search has resulted
in the discovery of the birth record of
Amerigo Vespucci in the Church San
Giovanni in Florence. The date is
March 1S. 1852.
Chile offers to recognize the govern
ment of Senior Cuestas in Uruguay in
exchange for the favorable attitude Of
Uruguay towards Chile in case of war
with Argentine
Senorita Isabel Rubio, a Cuban in
surgent amazon, has been captured
after being wounded in a skirmish
between Spanish troops and insur-
gents in Pinar del Rio.
The French transatlantic liner Fla
chet bound from Marseilles to Colon,
was totally wrecked on one Of the Ca
nary Islands. Thirty-eight of the
crew and forty-nine passengers were
lost.
Ex-Gov. w. T. Thornton of New
Mexico is in Mexico to secure water
power and erect a large plant for a
transmission of electricity to City Of
Mexico. The investment will amount
to over $1,OOO,OOO.
In the Zola trial sentiment is chang
ing. The army is being defended and
there is a protest against receiving
the testimony of so-called experts who
have not even seen the original hand
writing in the Dreyfus case.
An expedition with 5000 rifles, 5000
of dynamite, 100000 rounds
Of cartridges and other supplies, got
away from Tampa for Cuba right un-
der the noses of Spanish spies. 1t is
believed Gen. Sanguilly is the real
The complications arising out of the
assassination of President Barrios Of
Guatemala are attempts and counter
attempts to seize the government by
Gen. Marroquin and the military,
Prespero Morales, and Gen. Mendizabal.
Gen. Toledo, the Minister of War by
grace Of CABRERA, president pro tenn, has
has turned artillery on the insurgents.
Senor Luis Polo-Bernabe is son OF
Polo, who formerly rep
resented Spain in this country. Sefor
Bernabe is now engaged in a special
department of the Foreign Ministry
at Madrid, dealing with commercial
matters and consulates. 1t is now
claimed the De LONE letter was read
in Washington by a friend Of Cuba
before it was put in the mails, and
was then watched for in Havana,
where it was stolen by a postal clerk.
The envelope only was forwarded to