Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-03-08
FOREIGN.

General Gallifet's health is improved.
An operation restored Crispi's sight
William Scott artist, died in Lon
don.
Russian journals talk of interven-
ton.
The anti-forelgn sentiment in China
is increasing.
Russia plans railway in rurkestan
towards Cabul
The Italian crown prince is to visit
the Paris exposition.
The National theater Of Paris viii
accept no plays by royallsts,
Anna Maria Pecci, niece of the pope,
was married to Or, Debonis,
Russia intends to rent from Persia
a harbor on the Persian gulf.
Andrew White Tuer famous British
publisher. is dead in London.
The Bavarian state railways are ex-
perimenting with American coal.
The emir of Bokhara offered Russia
tracts of land for colonization.
- IjDIIltll was FlttNtu " pdAiAtlihNiit
from South Mayo to succeed Dayitt.
The ninetieth birthday Of the pope
was celebrated in Rome With fireworks.
The British naval estimates for 1900
call for an expenditure of 1376l3,OO0.
Two hundred and fifty Roman print
ers struck against typesetting ma
chimes
The Persian ambassador at Paris said
the shah was not under Russian in
| auence
Oman has $4,000 armed Arabs and
is said to be eager for holy war against
England
Lord Rosebery has resigned the
presidency of the Scottish Liberal as
sociatlon.
French troops are said to have
crossed the Morocco frontier and
seized Tablet
! Won Bulow is opposed to the estah-
lishment Of a German chambers Of
commerce abroad
| Journal des Debats announces the
Paris exposition will not be ready for
the opening on April
Herbert Bismarck is working to be-
come a chancellor He suppressed part
of his fathers memoirs
The University Of Edinburgh viii
confer the degree of LL. d, on Miss
| Ormerod, the entomologist
The socialist editor schmidt in pris-
on for insulting the kaiser. received
$4,000 votes for the reichstag
King Christian and Premier Hurring
oppose the sale OF the Danish West
Indies TO the United States
The kaisers play was Kissed at its
first performance in Berlin and his
majesty hurriedly left the theater,
British government officials resent
rd the report thar the Sabine incident
was closed with an apology to us.
King leopold promised to inyesti-
gate an American missionary charges
of outrages in the Congo Free State.
4 Russian cruiser has arrived at Bum
der Abbas, at the mouth Of the Persian
gulf, and British ships have gone there.
The French senate. sitting rs 4 high
court, sentenced Deputy Marcel-Habert
70 five years Punishment for melting
soldiers TO INSTRUMENTATION.
Goscheu told parliament that more
gigantic naval plans have been laid
since the peace congress than ever be
fore entered the heads of the European
powers
The report that General Horace
Porter United States ambassador
would bee a candidate for the ylee-pres +
leucy on the republican ticket
is denied IN Paris
The discovery has been made that an
association has been buying diseased
animals, slaughtering them in various
places i'm the Paris suburbs where pc
Ice supervision is slight and selling
the meat
The Uganda railway telegraph line
reached the Nile n Ripon Falls Feb
is. and was carried across the river
next day. thus establishing telgraphic
communication between London and
the sources ot the Nile
Five Aberdeen trawlers which started
for the fishing grounds before the re-
cent gales have not returned and all
hope OF their safety has been aban-
douet Their crews number about
seventy men ana boys
Countess Agnes Stolber@ eldest