Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-01-04
FOREIGN.

Sweden has $175,540,O00 invested in
railroads.
Austria will abolish the stamp tax
on newspapers.
The Britons and beers agreed upon
Christmas truce.
Italian parliament adjourned until
Jan. 81 in huff.
! The French military attache at Ber-
lin was recalled.
London is to spend Sl5,00O,OOe on
new drainage works.
Americans buy $7,00000O worth of
millinery in Paris yearly
A man was arrested for trying to
speak to King Humbert.
Hungary is alarmed by the whole
sale immigration to America
The French parliament is likely to
ratify Franco-American trade treaty.
The Austrian emperor will give the
pope $4,000 in honor of the holy year,
The Italian press expects no redress
from America for the Tallula lynch
ing.
British steamer is wrecked of
Cape Hatteras, twenty-one lives being
lost.
The new glass roof on the Syden-
ham Crystal Palace in England cost
$4,000.
The Bagdad railway deal completed.
| fhe sultan is to receive S6,000,000 in
advance
! The Franco-American reciprocity
treaty was submitted to the chamber OF
deputies.
Trees and shrubs are being planted
along the Suez Canal to keep the sand
from drifting.
| Michael Davitt and several other
leaders object to the proposed National
! Irish council.
Car issued a rescript generating
Finance Minister De White from re-
cent charges.
The pope inaugurated the holy year
by opening the holy door of st. Peters
cathedral.
Deroulede was sentenced to two
years Imprisonment for insults to the
French government
The nucleus of fund has been col
lected to transfer the body of Chopin
from Paris to Cracow
Sir Thomas Upton has been unani-
mously elected rear commodore of the
Royal Ulster Yacht club.
| German schools celebrated closing of
the nineteenth century in obedience to
kaiser's wishes. Scientists laugh.
| Publishers in Finland lose from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year due to sup
preston of books by the government.
'GnrDN1nV ~
Austria from the empire" and does not
want it now, said the Cologne Gazette.
| 1t is feared that Mr.. Chamberlain,
secretary for the colonies meditates
overturning Jamaicas autonomous
government.
Partisan authorities are trying to de-
wise regulations for automo-
bile traffic which will be fair to all
parties concerned.
The German government has bought
Schliemann's palace in Athens, at
| $4,000, for the use of the German
Archaeological society.
The quarrel between Jew and anti
Semitic in the Vienna city council end
ed in free fight, the sitting adjourn
ing in disorder.
China has just received a cargo OF
sewing machines from America, and
Chinese women are said to be taking
kindly to the innovation.
At st. Petersburg the central agri-
cultural bureau has published a report
showing an increase of % per cent. in
winter cereals over 1895
Communication with Japan, north of
Osaka, is interrupted by storm and its
restoration is uncertain This includes
Yokohama, Toxic and Hakodadi.
Near Tangier a native, who stole
donkey worth $125, was taken before
the Chief of the Quar-, and as punish
mcnt he was tied to a tree while his
eyes We're burned out with a redhot
iron.
Emperor William has at last con-
iirmed the election of Herr Kirschner
as chief burgomaster of Berlin. His
majesty announced his decision at the
unwilling of the monument to his an
cestor, Elector George William, in the
Sieges, Alea.
In official German quarters at Wash
lngton it is stated that Germany never
contemplated the acquisition of the
Danish West Indies and that, conse-
quently, there has been no occasion
for adyices from the German embassy
to the home government against ac-
QUESTION on the ground that it would
be regarded by this country as an un-
friendly act.
At the trial OF Roland b. Molineux in
New York protest was made to Record
er Goff against the policy of Shadow
ing jurors adopted by the district at
torney. 1t is understood that orders
will be Issued to the shadows" to give
the jurors as little trouble as possible
in the future. The day was largely de-
voted TO the technical examination 81
handwriting experts, Nothing new or
important developed
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