Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-02-09
NEWS SUMMARY.

+ Brazil.
terrible snowstorms prevail through
out spain In some places the snow is
yards deep.
Mr.. Adelbert Hay, the new United
states Consul at Pretoria, has arrived
in the Transvaal.
According tc private reports re-
ceived in Berlin, the Cape Dutch are
still joining the Boer forces.
Allthe information which has reached
the President is to the effect that Great
Britain does not desire mediation.
It is officially announced that the
boer casualties at Spionlsop were fifty
three men killed and l20 wounded.
The senate, in executive session, de-
clded by vote of 81 to 80 not to re-
consider the vote by which the Samoan
treaty was ratified.
AS compared with year ago there
Is an increase in the number of every
class of farm animals in the United
states except mules
osman Digna the principal General of
the late khalifa Abdulla who was re.
Gently taken prisoer by the British, has
been brought to Suez
st. Petersburg newspapers express
immense satisfaction at the Persian
loan of %, 500, 900 roubIes to be floated
by the Loan Bank Of Persia.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken at the vice-regal pitfalls in China
to prevent risings. The troops have been
served with ball cartridges.
An extraordinary exodus of Ameri
cans toward Europe is il progress, &C
cording to the figures of the passport
bureau Of the state department.
The secretary Of State is in receipt OF
a telegram from United States Consul
Kindricli at Juare2. Mexico, reporting
that six Americans have been shot.
The lower house of the Hungarian
Diet has provided a supplementary
credit of 30,000,00o forms for the
purchase Of rifles, artillery and ammuni
ton.
Heavy snowstorms have prevailed
throughout France, lately, especially
on the north and west coasts, where
numbers of small wrecks have oc.
cured
Emperor Kwangsu of China continues
to issue edicts in his own name. Nank-
ing and WI Chang Officials consider
that his immediate retirement is
improbable
The Ways and Means committee has
decided to report bill establishing
tariff system for Porto Rico on basis
of 25 per cent of the rates in the regu-
lar tariff law
The House Committee on Commerce
has made the question of Government
as against private ownership of the
proposed Pacific cable special order
February 18th.
The interior of China is greatly ex.
cited and progressive Chinese are beg
ging the American British and Jap
anese ministers to intervene and restore
the Emperor to dover.
The Hawaiian bill has been practi-
cally completed by the house commit
tee on territories, and Chairman Knox
with subcommittee is preparing a
draft of the revised bill.
The dowager empress has dismissed
Jung Lu. Generalissimo of the Chinese
forces on account of his supposed disap-
proval Of the recent coup d'etat Other
high officials have been superseded.
There are 5000 cases of influenza in
Madrid.
In Paris there is rumor in official
circles that rebellion has ocnurre d
among the Soudanese troops in Khartum
There are only $50 white British SOL
eiers there under command of major.
At Sydney, N. s. W., wharf laborer
has been stricken with the bubonic
plague and the attending doctors are
of the opinion that he was inoculated
with the disease though the bite of a flea.
There is, according to Senator Nor
gan, no good reason why the Nicaragua
canal bill should not pass both houses
of Congress and secure the approval
OF the president within the next thirty
days.
A dispatch to the Havas News Agen-
cy, Paris, from Cairo confirms the re-
port that rebellion had occurred
among the soudanese troops in Khar-
toum.
The extension of the French settle
ment in China has been fnall Y settled
and thenew area will be two and half
times that of the present settlement.
The arrangement will become effective
March 14th.
The Mexican Government has receiv.
ed telegram from General Torres to
the effect that absolutely nothing has
occurred that would give rise to the
report that six Americans have been