Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-03
FOREIGN


eXiled
Attendance at the Paris exposition
continues large
Queen Victoria left Ireland for
Windsor today
The duke of Argyle, a noted British
statesman. is dead.
A strike of 5000 employees of Paris
laundries occurred.
Wilhelm jain. the famous Viennese
| orchestra conductor, is dead
The car has issued rescript on the
celebration of Holy Week in Moscow.
Filibusters from Nicaragua have
captured the town of David, Colombia.
Wilhelm Schring, poet and historian,
died at Carlsruhe, Germany, aged S4
General Chas. Warren has been ap-
pointed administrator of Bechuana-
land.
The French government is likely to
prohibit automobile races on public
roads
A Berlin paper declared that pan
Americanism is directed against Ger
many.
Advices from Colombia say that
Bocas del Toro, Panama, is in pos
session of the rebels.
The American building at the Paris
exposition is completed. 1t may be re-
tanned permanently.
French leftists are indignant that
Louis Napoleon was made a general
| in the Russian army.
The duke of Flies titles have been
made hereditary through the female
! line to prevent extinction
The antl-foreign feeling in China
| is spreading and has led to new out
RACES by the Boxers"
1t is reported in Paris that Empress
Frederick, mother of the kaiser, has
married Count Saeckentorf,
Average wages in Germany: House
maids, $2.3S a month; laborers, 1914
week; carpenters, IS a week.
Emperor William expresses a wish
that Germany and Great Britain
SHOULD dwell together in unity.
The Colombian revolution is losing
ground daily, and smallpox has in
yaded the ranks of the insurgents.
Winston Spencer Churchill may be
the conservative nominee for the par
lament seat vacated by the new duke
of Argyle
A handsome new charity bazar built
by Count and Countess de Castellane
in Paris was opened with elaborate
ceremony
Samuel & Co. an English firm, have
outbid American and other foreign
firms and secured the F'ormosa cam
phor monopoly for ten years.
All the powers having claims against
Turkey may unite in demands for a
prompt settlement The United States
is not Modified by the concessions.
The German admiralty is said to be
authority for the statement that Ger
mans are about to visit the United
States TO study American shipbuildlng.
Sir Francis Arthur Marindin senior
inspecting officer Of railways in con-
uecJion with the board of trade, died
in London. He was born May /, 1885.
The Pekin government has decided
TO dismiss twenty-five Japanese. Rus
sian and German military instructors
now employed in military colleges and
provincial armies.
News has been received from Beyrut
Syria, to the effect that the Turkish
torpedo boat Schmayl blew UP in that
harbnr April p. resulting in the loss
Of twenty-three lives.
Russia viii not let Turkey suffer
harm through American naval demon
stration The Turkish minister in
formed the porte that America Is In
earnest and the sultan IS said to have
yielded.
From Kan shan. KIao chou dis
trict comes the news of an explosion
in a powder magazine on March "a,
by which over goo houses we're de-
stroyed, thirty persons were killed
and s.xty-seven injured.
At a meeting Of leading hnanciers
AMI manufacturers Of Berlin, under
the presidency Of Dr Koch. president
OF The Imperial bank. ii was decided
20 raise a fund for tre relief Of the
famine sufferers in India, and those
present subscribed 100000
Investigation Of the rumor that Mrs
James Brown Potter. having been
divorced from her husband by mutual
consent, vas shortly to be married 70
Lord Kitchener Of Khartoum, SHOWS
the story to be entirely without toun-
datlon
The succession Of the Marquis q