Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-01-03
Foreign.

| Anxiety is feit over illness OF the
aged duke OF Saxe-Weimar.
Lord Kitchener reported successful
engagements with boer forces.
AT London. Jules Riviere, the fam
Gus musical conductor. is dead
| The weather in Stockholm is the
nlldest that has been known for many
! years.
| Natives of Samoa thanked Ameri'
acns for protection now afforded
them.
w. D Coleman president OF Liberia,
! resigned. g w. Gibson Is elected to
| succeed him
Pope Leo issued bull extending the
| jubilee six months. The encyclical
Is coon to appear.
| Professor Flammarion does not be
ieve the luminous spots on Mars are
| signals to the earth.
Celestino Peraza. former secretary
OF President Castro, has started a
! revolution in Venezuela.
General Kodama, governor of Mosa
Will succeed Viscount Katsura, who re-
signed as minister of war Of Japan.
| A dispatch from Warsaw says that
81 Piles have been arrested there, be-
ing accused of political conspiracy.
| The duke Of Manchester's English
| creditors are firm in demanding full
payment of claims amounting to $115,-
1926
The war Office in London began re-
form in the army by demanding the
resignation of General Sir Henry Col
vile.
Captain Dreyfus wrote to the French
! premier denying he sent a message to
the kaiser and demanding new investi
| cation
The Japanese government dredger
| Senate foundered off Cork harbor, IL
persons out OF II on board being
| drowned.
The trial OF Quinatavalle and Col
ombo, the alleged accomplices of
| 3resci in the assassination of King
| Iumbert, was resumed.
J Christmas tide was favored in
France with bright and cheerful
weather and Parisians celebrated it in
| characteristic fashion
| Three hundred students have been
arrested In St Petersburg, according
| to a dispatch from Berlin, for propa-
eating socialist doctrines.
The Chinese court objected strenu-
| peciaIly to reduction of forts and
maintenance of legation guards
| Count Zeppelin, the German aero
naut, VIII soon address the German
| colonial society at Berlin upon the
| prospects Of utilizing his airship.
! The brother of Andree, the missing
aeronaut. says IA dispatch from Gopen-
hagen. despairing of his return from
the arctic regions, has finally opened
his will
The ear is now completely restored
! being able to take long walks and
drives daily NJ. Sipiagune has had
three audiences with the emperor
since his illness.
The government of Chile. which
| recently invited tenders for 400 freight
cars. has accepted 800 from Doeche &
| Co. and 100 from w r Grace & Co
all of American manufacture.
At st Petersburg. the holy synod
has ordered that all the churches in
its jurisdiction take up collections to
! help build an orthodox Russian church
in New York city,
A dispatch from Aberdeen to Lon
don says that five Shetland fishing
| boats have been missing since the
storm that ragged last week, and it is
feared that q fishermen have been
! drowned,
Lord Curzon of kedlestone the
yiceroy of India, In the course of a
| speech. said that since the appearance
OF the bubonic plague in 1898, $4,000
deaths from the disease have occurred
in the Mysore state.
General Reginald Pole Carew, who
has returned from south Africa, will
marry Lady Beatrice Frances Eliza
beth. elder daughter of the Marquis of
| Ormonde He is 81 years OF age and
| she is under 25
A dispatch from Durham 10 news
agency at London, announces that
the Cape TO Cairo telegraph line is
now in operation to a point so miles
north of Kasanga and 100 miles beyond
the southern end of Lake Taganyika.
The pope Is much satisfied by the
success OF the jubilee. He is prepar,
! ing 10 hold ordinary receptions, The
buying of tickets has commenced for
the pope's mass, which will be cele-
brated at midnight, Dec. 81, in st,
Peters
Evelyn b Baldwin the arctie ex-
plorer, who Is arranging for the Bald.
win Zeieler expedition, has purchased
the EsQuimauN, the largest and stanch-
est of tic whaling fleet and fitted il
with modern appliances aud named il
tho America.
one of the most serious fires which
have occurred IN the east end OF Lon
don during the last 10 years broke out
lat tho East India docks Five Immense