Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-08-17
FOREIGN.
pleXy.

The Madrid cortes has closed for the
summer.
The trial of Captain Dreyfus began
at Rennes.
At Calcutta the bubonic plague has
made its appearance.
Countess de Castellane Could was
the social winner at the Cowes races.
Lady Randolph Churchill's reported
betrothal to Lieut. West still amazes
London.
Two of the assassins of President
HeureuX of Santo Domingo have been
caught and shot.
Carnegie's nomination to be a Brit
ish magistrate has raised the question
whether he is a British subject or not.
The government of Colombia nipped
a revolution in the bud by arresting
prominent radicals in the department
of Cauca.
Counsel for Dreyfus has announced
the names Of some Of the witnesses
summoned for the presiner's defense In
his couI't-martial.
It NItl Halls III Ddlllti are IcpOl ltNl
to be pleased with the selection of
United States Consul-General Osborn
as acting chief justice.
Mexican soldiers have had several
fierce encounters with the Yaqui
Indians, and there have been consider
able losses on both sides.
British hope Of regaining the
Americas cup almost oozed out when
the Meteor beat the Britannia far
worse than the Shamrock did.
Joseph Chamberlain said in the
house Of commons that England had
allowed too many constitutional pow
ers to the West Indian colonies.
Haitien officers invaded the United
States legation at Port au Prince after
a prisoner and took him away. Min
lister Powell protested and the prisoner
was set free.
General Jiminez Is quoted as say
ing in Havana that he received tele-
gram from Santa Domingo revolu-
tionists asking him to come, and that
he replied that he would be there with
a party OF Americans by the end of
August.
Before sailing for New York Richard
Croker said he was driven from
America" by the newspapers and
forced to get his pleasures abroad. Mr.
Croker is i'll, according to the report
brought from London by Tod Sloan
the jockey.
The official investigation into the
collision at Juvisy, suburb OF Paris
on the southern side, between the
Orleans lines Paris and Nantes train
and the Paris and Lyons Mediterranean
train show that II persons were killed
and 70 injured.
According to a dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Mail from Berlin, at a
meeting Of prominent Hebrews held
there to discuss the plan proposed by
American Hebrews to buy the island OF
Cyprus in the Mediterranean for Jew
ish colonization it was decided to col
lect further information before pro
ceedng in the matter.
Paris socialists organized a demon
stration in the Place Maubert, near the
/ SldluS W Etltuht ColCl, y" III Nus
burned in 1916, during the reign OF
Francis l., for "impiety and atheism
A counter demonstration met the SO
cialist procession nearly opposite the
offices of Intransigeant, Henri Roche
forts paper. and scuffle ensued, in
which several were injured.
Prince Won Hohenlohe was given ar
audience at the railway station by
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria
who was passing through. His majest!
leFt the railway carriage to welcome
the German chancellor, and invited
him to enter the train. where they ha6
n long conversation.
The British steamer Winthrop, from
Newport, July u, for Lisbon, from
which, as reported, Aug. 5, nineteen
persons landed at Muros province Of
Corunua, struck on a rock 1t Is now
! learned while on her way from Huelva
: Spain, to Antwerp, and was totally
wrecked. Her crew landed safely al
Muros.