Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-03
FOREIGN.
Brief Mention of the Most Important
Happenings Outside Our Own Land.

Brief Mention of the Most Important
Happenings Outside Our Own Land.
JAN New cabinet OF provisional govern
ment in Cuba swear loyalty to Spain at
Havana.
l2-Mobs headed by Spanish officers destroy
newspaper offices in Havana; Cemmodars
Bunce ready to go to protection of Amer
leans >. British surveying expedition,
consisting of $50 natives, massacred in
Beloochistan district.
24-Algers under mob rule; over 100 Jews
killed.
Feb. 2-Gen. Santos j. Zelaya inaugurated
second tiSle president Nicaragua. Inn
portation of American fresh fruit into
Germany prohibited. j. Car said to have
obtained entire control in Chinese af-
fairs.
6-Senor Sagasta, replying to official note
from Gen. Woodford, says Spain cannot
fix date for her complete pacification Of
Cuba. Turks capture several Thes-
salian, villages, killing 100 people.
s-Earthquakes continue at Balikesen,
Asia; 1000 rendered homeless and 100
killed. IL. S. marines landed at San
Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, to protect
American consulate on account of revolu-
ton.
lO-Japan notifies China she intends perma-
nently to, occupy Wei Hai-Wei. J. Gen.
Morales declared president Guatemala;
Assassin Oscar Salinger shot.
l7-Constantnople advices give accounts
OF murder and horrible torturing of Bull
garians in Macedonian villages. AT
Hammerly, Prussia, ITO miners killed by
explosion of fire damp.
l9--Ohina agrees to open all inland waters
to steamers OF all nations.
23-M. Emile lola found guilty in Paris of
making Ebelous comment upon conduct
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years imprisonment and fine of 10000
Mar. l-Ontario's vote continues liberals in
Office
7-Fresh rebellion breaks out in Philip
pine islands; So Spanish soldiers killed.
Sire at Manila destroys $4,000, 000 prop
sl-capt Gen. Blanco revokes reconcen-
Pinar del Rio and Santa Clara. French
court Of appeals RENTS punishment Of
Emile lola
Apr. 2-Great Britain seizes Chusan island
off east coast of China.
9-Reports of recent massacre at Ana
toha, Turkey, say parents of 10000 chill
dren we're killed and 40 churches de.
stroyed
20-Queen regent opens Spanish cortes, and
blames U. S. for existing hostile condi.
May Thirty persons killed in bread riot
in Rome.
sMany persons killed in bread riots in
Milan, Italy.
PAT London, British council of w. G.
7. U. rejects President Lady Henry
Somerset. .. Moret, Gullon, Xiquena and
Bermejo, members Spanish cabinet, re-
l8-New Spanish cabinet formed, sagasta,
premier
la-WIliam Ewart Gladstone dies at Ha-
warden castle, England.
Jun. 2-Fire at Peshawir, India, destroys
1000 houses; 800, 000, 600 damage,
protocol agreed on between Russia and
Japan recognizes independence Of Corea.
6-Siun Flu made capital of China instead
OF Picking. Over 1900 people said to
have drowned in storm off Mi Yoke,
Japan.
S-French cabinet resigns. z. T. Hooley,
prominent company promoter fails in
London for $1,000 00
I'm. Ribot selected to form new French
cabinet.
2l.Launching Of new warship Albion at
Blackwell, Eng caused rise OF wave
that drowned so people.
24-Spanish cortes closed and martial law
proclaimed.
25-Gilbert John Elliott, earl of Minto APP
pointed governor-general of Canada
3O-Prince Bismarck dies at Friedrichsruh.
Germany, aged So.
Aug. .l-Empress dowager of China openly
takes to herself direction of empires al
fairs, relieving emperor of all real power.
Sl-Lieut. Col. Henry, chief witness
against Capt. Dreyfus, commits suicide
near Paris after confessing to forgery
Of a document he had offered at the
Dreyfus trial.
Sep. 3-.Egyptian forces under Sir Herbert
Kitchener defeat dervishes in great bat
tie at Omdurman, on the Nile. M.
Cayaignac, minister of war for France,
resigns because Of disagreement with his
colleagues who favor Dreyfus revision.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland crowned
at Amsterdam. Gen. Zurlinden mill
tary governor of Paris, made French min
lister of war
6-Riot at Gambia, Crete, between Muss,1l.
mans and British, and British warship
threw shells, destroying part of the city;
about 600 people were either burned or
massacred.
lo-Elizabeth Amelia Eugena, empress Of
Austria assassinated at Geneva, Switz-
erland :. Business section of New West
minister, b. c., burned $2,5o0,O0O.
l4,.klngston, capital Of st. Vincent, in
West Indies, partially destroyed by cy-
clone: 300 lives lost. Hurricane sweeps
over Barbados, in Windward group of
Lesser Antilles; 200 killed and 40, 600 rem
dered homeless.
E-Sultan orders arms of Mohammedans at
r. Gambia, Crete, surrendered according to
British demands
26-trench cabinet decides for Dreyfus re-.
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