Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-05-25
minister to the United States, and lht
duchess of ARGOS.
FOREIGN.


All the peace delegates arrived at
The Hague and the congress was
opened.
I'rancisque Sarcey, the worlds most
famous dramtaic critic, died at Paris,
aged II.
Formosa advlces give details Of the
massacre of thirty unarmed villagers
by sayages near Tako.
"Amenca's three millions have been
the three nails that will cruelty me,
said Gen. Gomez.
Mrs. Choate presented several
first drawing-room.
The Order Of Railway Conductors
changed it's headquarters from Cedar
Rapids to Des Moines.
Ii is authoritatively announced that
President Mckinley will not call an
extra session OF congress.
Baltimore & Ohio railroad reorgan-
ization is assured, the issue of new Sc
curities being authorized.
The operators and miners at Pana,
LII, nave SubIllLLtu Lltil ulutltHItS
to the state board of arbitration.
British troops have suppressed the
uprising at Kow-Loon, near Hong
Kong, and taken possession of the
town.
In New York funeral services for ex-
Gov Roswell p. Flower were held.
Wall street rallied from the shock
caused by his death.
Gen. McNulta, the whisky trust re-
ceiver, declares that the sole motive Of
such organizations is to wiring the
necks of consumers.
W. II. de Beaufort, foreign minister
Of the Netherlands, has been decorated
with the Alexander Newski order by
the Russian government
Tod Sloan, the jockey, is falling in
health and on the verge of break
down. The prediction is made that
he can ride few more races.
Gen. Hernandez, the leader of the
revolution in 1898 in Venezuela, who
was captured near Yumare on June u
last, has been released from captivity.
Ohio's encouragement told the in
dustrial commission that ii independ-
ent concerns secured equal advantages
in transportation trusts could not ex-
list.
A conference between President
Kruger and the governor of Cape Col
ony will be held at Capetown relative
to the grievances Of the uitlanders in
the Transyaal
Eight former British officers and a
British detective have been arrested
and taken to Pretoria on the charge
of organizing a rebellion against the
South African Republic.
The earl of STAFFORD who married
Mrs. Samuel j. Colgate in Grace
church, New York city, last December,
was instantly killed at Potters Bar,
near London, by the Cambridge ex-
press,
The London Daily Mail announces
the cessation of the Sunday edition and
states the action is due to hostile pub
lie opinion, but that it was also influ-
enced by an appeal from its own em-
ployes,
At Vancouver, b. g., the riot acl
was read in connection with the dis
pute over the possession of Deadman's
island. Ludgate had to be knocked
down and handcuffed before he gave
in, and is now in Jail.
At Atlanta, Winnie Roach, a mu-
latto, and her husband are under ar
rest, charged with brutally burning
their four little children by igniting
paper saturated with kerosene with
which they wrapped their bodies
Major Marchand has arrived at Jib-
outl in good health and spirits and
has telegraphed the French govern
ment that his three years march
across the wilds of Africa has not IN
the least changed his military spirit.
At Hollenburg, Kan, Sheriff Ed
Coleman, OF Washington, Kan, was
shot and instantly killed by William
HoXie, whom he was attempting to ar
rest. HoXie was fatally shot through
the bowels He was wanted on the
charge Of robbery.
Louis F'reiberger of Chicago and a
party of Americans on the yacht Mys-
tic we're wrecked on the coast of Hon
duras during a norther April 6, ami
child of the party died before they
found their way to an Indian village
after several days of famine.
At the meeting Of the international
Woman's Peace League in ST. Peters
burg, addresses eXtolling the objects OF
the forthcoming conference at The
Hague were delivered, and Longfei-
lows poem, The Arsenal at Springfield,
was recited with great applause,
The ambitious plan for canal from
the Rhine to the Elbe. which would
have required S65,OO00o0 for its con-
s.ructiou, has been killed by the Prus-
sian landtag's commission, Sectional
jealousies rather than any motives q
economy are mainly responsible for
the defeat Of the measure
TWO SMART MEN IN JAIL.