Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-01-25

to be pardoned by the kaiser on his
birthday.
There is a strike on the Paris expo
sition.
The pope gave the Chinese empress
vase.
Russian influence with Menelek in
creases.
Baron Stumm. the German iron
king, i'll.
An easier feeling prevails in German
! financial circles.
! The seventh attempt TO overthrow
! the French cabinet failed.
! The Russian battleship Poltaya Is
ashore near Libau, on the Baltic.
A London bank is said to have Of
fered to loan 10000 900 to Portugal.
The French waiter who saved the
cars life in 1867 is in deep poverty.
Prince Alferi, commander of the pa
pal guard of mobiles, is dead at Rome.
The earl Of Manyers Sydney Will
lam Herbert Pierrepont) is dead, aged
LA.
Russian soldiers have been sent to
I the Caucasus near the Afghan front
/ Ter
/ Italy is Indignant because the United
States cannot punish Tallulah lynch
ers.
Five French senators have died from
overexertion during the Deroulede
trial.
A progressive marriage tax is pro-
posed to check polygamy in the Came
rooms.
Venezuela released a French bank
director on the threat of his govern
ment.
A German party left to survey the
route of the proposed Bagdad rail-
/ way.
Miss Lily Whitehouse of Chicago
married Captain Charles Coventry in
! London.
Curzon is said to be one of the most
autocratic but popular viceroys India
has known
It is officially declared that Ger
many fayors American control in the
Philippines
Numerous deaths from the innu-
enza have caused a scarcity of cof-
! fins in London.
The French cabinet approved Lock
roy's naval plans, involving an ex-
pense of 100000 600
| The marquis of Lotian, former keep
er Of the great seal of Scotland, is
dead, aged CT years.
| The condition Of the empress
mother, dowaeer Duchess of Schles-
wig osten, is worse
An explosion at the Nobel dynamite
factory in Italy destroyed every house
and tree within rs miles.
Germany may join a coalition move
ment to compel England to observe
the rights of neutrals at sea.
A French court declared that hero
ism Of the Bourgognes commander
| relieves the owners of liability.
! Lord Charles Beresford told a
Frenchman that England could whip
/ the combined European fleets.
King Alexander dismissed the Ser
Wan cabinet on its refusal to grant
amnesty to condemned radicals.
The British museum presented the
French national library with 10000
documents relating to the revolution,
Ii Hung Chang is again vested with
yiceregal power. succeeding Viceroy
/ Kan, whom the French have forced
out
The strike of 10000 vehicle drivers
in Rio Janeiro led to a riot, during
which the monarchists tried to start
revolution, but failed.
A church collapsed during the cele-
bration of a mass in Maloousene town
ship, Russia, Nineteen persons were
killed and sixteen wounded
An Italian bishop invented an APP
paratus TO warn a railway engineer of
train approaching on the same track
and TO indicate its distance,
Emperor Francis Joseph's decision
that Bohemian soldiers must use the
German word for here in answer
ing the roll call may split Austria
Hungary.
The tug lngraham reports that
boat has been picked up off Cape Pine
near the scene of che wreck bearing
the name "Heligoland. This is no
doubt one of the boats of the wrecked
vessel
Count Boni de Castellane and wife
tnee Anna Could sailed for New
York under assumed names. The
count is said to be a defaulter on the
bourse, and the countess has not paid
her dressmaker for four years.
CONGRESSIONAL, NEWS.