Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
FOREIGN.

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There are. five generals in the new
Spanish ministry.
Kruger is to receive cold welcome
in Belgium and Holland.
Queen Wilhemina's wedding day
has been fixed for Jan. H.
Crate Britians coal boom collapsed
and the price took heavy drop.
Leopold of Belgium was arrested in
Paris for riding in an automobile.
The students who attacked John A.
Dowie in London were fined S25 each.
The city of Hamburg loan of $40 ,000,-
600 has been over-subscribed in Berlin.
Lord Salisbury may reduce the Brit
lsh ministry from nineteen to fifteen
Prince Christian Victor, serving IN
south Africa is i'll with enteric fever
France is preparing to snub England
by giving Kruger cordial reception.
Joseph Chamberlain says England
and it's colonies desire peace with the
world.
Lieut.. Hennessey and As sikhs We're
killed in a brush with Mahsud raiders
at Janola.
Mr.. Kruger was secretly placed on
board a Dutch vessel at Lourenzo
Marques
Crown Prince Gustav took the oath
as regent at the opening Of strothing
in Norway,
Lord Wolseley, on retiring from The
post Of commander-in-chef viii take
an extended tour in Canada
Baron de Senechal denies the state
ment made by the rich Mrs. p r. Bar
ing that he is to marry her.
Many American muletcers who We're
hired during the boer war are now
stranded in south Africa.
The approach of an American fleet
near Constantinople may hasten the
payment Of our claims against Turkey.
It is now suggested that England
and Germany have agreed as to the
policy in south Africa as well as in
China.
It is rumored that the Brazilian fleet,
proGting by President Campos Sales
absence, viii begin a revolution in
order to rc-establisn a monarchy.
The minister of finance NJ. de White,
authorizes a denial Of the story that
Russia began negotiations in New
York for a new $50,00O,000 loan
1t is reported that Chancellor Won
Buelow and DR.. Miguel, the Prussian
minister of finance, have been at odds,
but have patched up their differences
According to a St. Petersburg cor
respondent 50 persons were killed ana
many others terribly scalded by a
boiler explosion on board the steamer
Eugenia, running between Tomsk and
Barnaui
The witnesses at the trial in Paris Of
Ferrette, who killed Marlier in a duel,
testified that the duel was fairly con
tested Marllers seconds declared
they chose swords because they
thought them less dangerous. The
procurator demanded the condemna-
ton OF Ferrette as lesson against
dueling.
Maud Come is organizing Irish
children and educating them in hos
tility to England She is banding to-
gether 10000 children who refused to
participate in the demonstration in
Phoenix park last spring during the
queens visit Evening classes have
been organized to teach Irish language
and history.
The English queen did not pay her
customary visit to the south of France
last winter and the shopkeepers of the
French riviera suffered financially in
consequence. They will not be
pleased, therefore, to know that her
majesty proposes to desert the French
for the italian Mediterranean shore in
the forthcoming season.
James Weir Graydon, formerly a
lieutenant in the United States army.
who made certain Improvements en-
the Ferris wheel, secured an English
patent and constructed the big wheels
at Earls court, the Paris exposition,
Blackpool and Vienna, is now living
with his family in a small back room
at BriXton. England, in dire proyerty.