Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-17

who will bring news Of Aeronaut
Andree's polar expedition,
The Russian council has decided
to abolish arbitrary exile to Siberia
and transportation en- ihasse.
Sir Richard Webster. British attor-
ney general, has been made master of
the rolls and will be elevated to
the peerage.
Austria's parliament ended its ses-
sion in a violent row over the Ian
guage session and may be permanent
ly dissolved.
Sunday Berlin celebrated the 18th
birthday OF Friedrich Wilhelm, prince
imperial of Germany and prince royal
of Prussia
The Mansion house ottawa fire
relief fund now amounts to $4,000,
including e1O0 contributed by Sir
Henry Irving.
Franz Josef intends to constitution
alize the Austrian succession regula-
tions so as to bar Countess Choutek's
possible children.
Forest fires in Germany have de-
stroyed property valued at 1000, 900
marks and in some places are being
fought by the troops.
Both houses of the Scandinavia
rlksdag by joint vote of PIG to 149,
agreed upon the expenditure of 1853
100 kroner for new defenses.
The Austrian parliament reopened.
The Czechs refused to permit the
reading Of the government bill regu-
lating the language question in
Bohemia.
The British government seeks to
collect an inheritance tax IN the s4O,-
100000 left by Baron Hir5ch to assist
IN the emigration of Russian Jews to
America.
Philip, the French naval officer ac-
cused Of Offering to sell boer secrets
to the British was convicted Of swindl-
ing and sentenced to four years i'm
prisonment.
Spain expects ministerial crisis as
a result of the ant-taxation demon
STATIONS. Business suspended in all
large cities as a protest against the
cabinet policy.
Ernest T. Hooley is said to have
received from the car Of Russia a big
concession to mine gold on 5000
square miles of the cars personal
property in Siberia.
The eruption at Mount Vesuvius
grows greater. -Four English tourists
who eluded the guards were showered
with lava and huge stones, narrowly
escaping with their lives.
John Philip Sousa, leading his SUI
perb band, made a great hit with
1000 persons at the Paris exposition
who clustered around the musician S
stand IN spite of rain yesterday.
Paris municipal election results in
the French provinces show that the
position of the parties has undergone
little change and that there is no
nationalist victory such as occurred in
Paris.
1t is rumored at Accra that Coon
AISLE has fallen. The British war
Office cables orders to officers of West
Indian regiment at Kingston, jam
aica, to proceed by the shortest route
TO Gold Coast colony.
Salisbury declared that the cause of
home rule is hopeless and that the
Irish would not be allowed to ac-
cumulate munitions of war for use
against England but that every Eng
lishman should learn TO shot to resist
foreign invasion
A storm has seriously damaged the
United States section of the electric
ity exhibit at the exposition. Water
poured through the leaky roof, ruin
ing the decorations and carpets and
damaging the facade. which is one
of the most attractive.
\ premeditated attack was made
upon two camps of the Wei-Hai-W
boundary commission May ). Major
Penrose and four men of the Chinese
regiment We're wounded. The attack
ing party was repulsed with the loss
Of thirty men killed.
The prince and princess OF Wales,
the duke and duchess of Connaught
and their suites occupied boxes at the
performance of zaza. n London. The
King of Sweden and Norway, the
duke OF Cambridge and Lady Ran
dohph Churchill also witnessed the
performance.