Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-12-08
FOREIGN.

Many christians were murdered by
rebels in China.
There was great Piequart indigna-
ton meeting in Paris.
Uruguayan troops have checked the
movement OF rebels from Brazil.
Frances Premier decided not to de
fer the Picquart court-martial.
1t is believed that Germany will bic
against the United States for the Caro-
lines.
The duchess of Marlborough re.
turned to Blenheim much improved In
health.
The prince of Wales is disposed tc
revisit Am ,rica II engagements viii
permit.
The -epublic of the United States OF
Central America has been knocked out
by revolution.
The Turkish government will issue
no official denial of the reported mass
acres in Armenia.
Bernhardt's tour of America next
year, she expects, will be her farewell
to this country.
A cable from Tamatave, Madagascar
says that the bubonic plague las
broken out there.
A bomb contai0ing large quantity
OF powder and nails was found in the
Marseilles bourse.
Madame Dreyfus has received a
cablegram from her husband saying:
Il rejoice with all of you"
| 1t Is reported in court circles that
Prince George of Greece in engaged to
Princess Victoria of Wales.
The sultan of Turkey has agreed to
grant travelling permits to foreigners
| in the interior of Asia Minor.
Queen Victoria hopes to live to see
| the Cape-to-Cairo scheme Of uniting
Britain's African empire completed.
| A dispatch from Brussels to the
Paris Journal reaffirms the report that
Count Esterhazy has sailed for Amer
! lea.
A plot to assassinate Prince Ferdi-
nand Of Bulgaria has been discovered
| at Sofia. Numerous arrests have been
made.
| The whole isthmus Of Panama is
celebrating the S7th anniversary OF
| the declaration OF its independence OF
Spain.
European newspapers predict that
grave complications will result from
| the United States advent as colonial
power.
American Marines have been landed
at Tien-Tsin, China, and will be sent
to Pekin to guard the American lega-
ton there.
Austria has protested against the
expulsion of her subjects from Prus-
STA and has prepared to retaliate II
necessary.
Two British brigades have been or
dered to the Swat valley, owing tc
Mad Mullah's successes over the loca
| tribesmen.
O'Brie1, member OF parliament
talks of prosecuting O'Connor fol
threatening the libel suit he now
withdraws.
Hollands girl queen set her ZOO
down that her husband-elect must no
be called Prince Consort until married
year and half.
Lord Strathcona, Canadian higf
commissioner to London, thinks th'
Anglo-Ameri commission will re
move every difference between the two
countries.
The dowager duchess of Sutherland
has identified the jewels found in pos
session OF Johnson and Lippman, WHIT
are charged with robbing her ca
tram between Paris and Calais.
The Carlton club of London has OF
fered to return to the Hooley estate
the 10000 which Ernest Hooley, thu
bankrupt, contributed some time ago
through the club, to the funds OF thu
conservative party.
The commissioner OF the Londor
board Of trade, which has been INCUR
ing into the loss OF the steamer None
gan gave a verdict that the disaster
was caused by wrong course oelnt
steered after the Michigan had passed
Eddystone Light.
General Lord Herbert Kitchener tn
Egyptian sirdir, in an open letter u
the London papers to-day appeals t'
the British public to subscribe tloo,
600 TO found and maintain the Gordon
memorial college at Khartum, with
view of educating the Sudanese an'
continuing the work which Genera
Gordon commenced.
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