Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-10-25


has been completely checked and
that twenty-one days have elapsed
since the last case.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mackay have
left Ben Alder forest for Edinburgh,
where they will stay a few days
before arriving in London. Mr.. Mac
kay hal good sport in his forest, kill
ing 40 stays, and on DunaChton moor
he bagged 1900 brace of grouse. He
and Mrs. Mackay leave this month for
America, where they will supervise
the building of a new home on Long
| island.
Col. du Patty de Clam, who was
cashiered by order of Gen. Zurlinden
for his part in the Dreyfus affair, has
been retired from the army definitely
by order of the minister Of war. He
will have the right to a pension as
colonel for the rest of his life, but
can never return to active army ser
vice.
The British steamer Highland
Prince from Antwerp, Aug. 80, Lon
don, Sept 7 and Bahia Oct. 4, arrived
at Montevdeo with buboniC plague
aboard Five deaths including the
captain and first officer occurred dur
ing the voyage.
Capt. Deyereux Shields, who, with
81 men of Co. T, Twenty-ninth reg
iment, U. S. infantry, was captured by
the insurgents last month in the
Island Of Martinique, was recovered
by the American rescue force, with all
the members of his party.
w. H. Williams, the special
European agent of the United States
treasury, accompanied by Mrs. Will
Jams, will sail for America. Mr.
Williams goes to Washington to con-
suit with Secretary Gage on matters
relating to European finances.
Elaborate preparations are being
made at Marseilles for the arrival of
Kruger, The program includes
solemn reception of the Gelderland
and a procession will escort the pres
ident to a popular banquet. DR.. Leyds
will be among the guests of honor.
Before formally accepting the in
vitaton of Mexico to participate in
the Pan-American conference to be
held next year in the city of Mexico,
! Chile has suggested the formulation
of a definite program, setting forth
| the business the conference shall dis
cuss.
The intercession of the princess of
Wales, says a dispatch from Copen-
hagen to the Daily Telegraph, has
secured the liberation of some Danes
who were compelled by the beers to
| fight against the British and had been
imprisoned at Simons Town, Cape
Colony.
1t is reported that the coal deficit
in Franco will go into the millions.
La Iiborte says the crisis will give
America a chance to put coal on the
market and displace the sale of Eng
lish coal. America will probably be-
come the great supply house for the
coaling stations of the world.
Gen. Andre, the French minister of
war, has punished Maj. de Granville
with II days Imprisonment and has
sent him away from the military
school in Fontairebleu to a regiment
in the provinces for insulting Capt.
Coblentz, a Jewish officer in the
artillery,
The Nicaraguan government has
conceded to Pedro Mas, a citizen Of
Mexico, the exclusive right for five
years to manufacture cotton articles
with English machinery. The import
of cotton into Nicaragua shall be duty
free, while the government maintains
high import tax on manufactured
cotton goods.
Extraordinary interest has been
manifested by the king of Belgium in
! the United States section of metal
lurgy and minerals at the exposition.
The California gold is particularly
| admired The king is in Paris incOg-
nito and refuses to recognize the Bel
gian ministers and commissioners at
the exposition.
There was a scene of wild disorder
in a theater in the avenue Wagram,
Paris. Furious at the nOn-appear-
ance of two of the stars on the
program, the audience started a tu-
mutt, broke the windows and chairs
in the thcater, and turned on the fire
hose with which they watered the
scene and the actors.
DR.. Adolf Harnack was inaugurated
rector of the University of Berlin. 1t
was announced that the gifts to the
university during the last university
year amounted to 100000 marks, in
Guiding the 10000 marks which the
Due de Liubat. former resident of
New York city, gave to endow the
chair of American antiquities.
Ten thousand invitations will be is
sued by the city council of Paris for
magnificent fete on Oct. 81. The af-
fair is intended to avenge Sights suf
fered at the hands of President Lou
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