Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-21
CABLE CULLlNGS.

new Cabinet has been formed in
Peru.
kilograms from the interior of Santo
Domingo tell of enthusiastic receptions
in honor of General Jiminez.
CASTOR Tissandier, the dlstin-
guished French chemist and aeronaut,
died in his fifty-sixth year.
Gen. Sir Frederick Walker, the new
British commander in south Africa,
has arrived at Cape Town.
Monte Christi, the last stronghold OF
the Dominican government, has sur
rendered to the revolutionists.
The new White Star steamer
Oceanica, the largest ship in the world,
sailed from Liverpool to New York.
Project Andjelic, one of those ac-
cused of attempting to assassinate
King Milan, hanged himself in his pri-
son cell at Rome.
At Oporto one new case Of the bu-
bonic plague was officially reported.
DR.. Irvine, an American physician,
arrived to study the epidemic.
At Honolulu the SO Galacian labor
ers who have been in OAHU prison
since last September, on conviction of
deserving their tracts, were released.
1t is said that Baron Won Hammer
stein-Loxten, Prussian minister of
agriculture, has been dismissed from
office for the part he took with regard
to the canal bill.
The dowager empress of China
caused telegram to be sent to Prit-
chard Morgan, M. p, to commence his
mining and commercial operations in
the province Of Szechuen.
Senior Eduardo Romano, former
senator for Arequipa, was inaugurated
as president of the Republic of Peru
for the term of four years in success
sion to Senior Nicholas Pierola.
An unconfirmed report is current
that an exploring party which re-
Gently left for Lake Tanganyika, in
central Africa, has, with only one ex-
ception, been murdered by the natives.
Reports received from ports through
out Prince Edwards Island and from
the north indicate that the recent
heavy gale was very disastrous to
fishing and coasting craft. 1t is be-
lieved that at least dozen lives were
lost.
A New Yorker, Duke Joseph Flori-
mond de Loubat, a resident of Paris,
has founded a professionals in the Uni
yersity of Berlin for Americans, at
a cost of 100000 marks. The en-
peror must confirm the foundation be-
fore it is valid
The reply of the Transvaal govern
ment to the British demands denies the
claim of suZerainty, but accedes to
the proposition for a conference. The
situation Is less critical. The volks-
raad at Pretoria, had an exciting de-
bate on the presence Of English troops
on the Transvaal frontier.
Emperor William addressing the
burgomeister of Carlshrue and ex-
pressing his satisfaction at the bear
ing of the troops, said: MANY CEN
turtles must eapse before the theory of
permanent peace attains universal ap-
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wark of peace for the German empire
consists in its princes and the army
they lead"
BY vote of S to the Rennes court
martial pronounced Dreyfus guilty and
sentenced him to ten years detention
in continetal military fortress. De
nortation counts double the same time
OF detention, so that II Dreyfus's near
ly five years at Devils island are de-
Quoted he will have only month or
so Of his new sentence to serve. The
German government Officially stated
that Dreyfus was innocent. The
president of the Court-martial denied
an application of NJ. Labori to have
Col. Schwartzkoppen and Maj. Paniz-
2ardi cited as witnesses. A semi
officially agency declares that the
statement recently made by Charles
Il. Bentheim. at Atlanta, Ga, to the
effect that Alvin Florschmetz, when
United States vice-consul at Some
berg, used the seals, letter heads, etc,
of the consulate for years before the
Dryfus case came up, for the trans
to the German office of French
military secrets is pure invention.