Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-11-07

yoked an extraordinary session OF
congress for oct, 80, to discuss the
budget and other projects.
Twenty-three persons have been
,aten by woIve5S says the Neuez
Weiner Journal, Jbile working in the
ields near WitebSk, Poland.
An trade has been promulgated by
Ehch the settlement in Turkey Of any
If the religious congregations ex-
lelled from Frame is prohibited.
According to The statistics of the
international society, the sugar pro
luction of Europe for 1901 is estimat.
I'd at 5,928,2G4 tons upon last years
output
Turkey pal d an additional install
ncnt at Constantnople on the account
With the Cramps of Philadelphia for
l. cruiser The total now paid amounts
10000,
The King Alfred, the largest cruiser
n the world, was successfully launch
I'd at Barrow-in-Furness. 1t cost
treat Britain GLOI1,759 and will have
speed Of twenty-three knots.
The total number Of cases Of typhus
officially reported in Bochum, Ger
many, is 1929. Thus far there have
been twenty-seven deaths, while only
1872 have completely recovered.
The sealing schooners Fawn, Annie
Paine and f. B. Marvin returned from
Bcring Sea the former with 304 skins,
he second with SAP and the latter
with 189, three Of which were branded.
Francois Haguenn has been ap
pointed professor of the University OF
Berlin. This is the first case on
record where a Frcnchman has been
called 10 FIJI a chair in a German uni
versity,
It IL announced that the marriage
of Miss Nellie Harjes, daughter Of j.
Pierpont, Morgan's Paris partner, and
Dieudoune Lion Gardiner, eldest son
of John Gardiner Of New York, will
be solemni2ed on Nov. Z.
The Berlin criminal court has
ordered all numbers of the current
issue of La Caricature, the French
comic weekly, destroyed, because il
contains cartoons depicting the en-
peror in an uudignidod position,
Previous to the closing Of congress,
Senator Branaz submitted plan Of
constitutional reform under which all
religions will be tolerated in Peru,
but only the state rol'~ion will be
recognized in public ceremonies
The decree Of divorce granted to
Lady Russell from Earl Russell March
90 last on the ground Of the earls
bigamy with Mrs. SOmerville was
made absolute in London, no opposi-
ton to Lady Russelps application be-
ing presented.
Advicos have been received from
Co ombia to the effect that the reyo-
lutonists have taken the town Of
Tumaco, on the Pacific coast, near
the Ecuadorian frontier, and are now
marching toward Guapi which Is near
Bucnaventura
An article by Max O'Rcll in the
Figaro, harshly criticising the duke
of Cornwall and York for speaking in
English instead Of in French at
Quebec, is due to the fact that the
duke politely refused to attend lee
ture by NJ. O'Rell.
According to a dispatch to the St.
Petersburg Novoe Vremya from
Vladivostock the Russian General
Grodekoff, accompanied by the Rus
sian assistant minister of finance, M.
Romaneff, will soon open the Manchur-
ian-Siberian railway.
1t Is interesting to note that while
Russia imported from the United
States in the frs half of this year
goods valued at 22,777 600 rubles, the
value of the return trade, consisting
almost entirely of sugar, is estimated
at only 2,267, 600 rubles.
The Japanese treasury announces
the issue Of bonds to the amount Of
1G.5OO,OOO yen. OF this sum 100000
ven will be devoted to the redemption
of other bonds, while the remainder
will be utilized in defraying the cost
of the Chinese expedition.
German mobiles, like their kindred in
England began to take to the stage.
The court theater of Munich boasts
a baron and two counts among its
staff. Not less than 104 mobiles are at
the present time engaged on the Ger
man stage in various capacities.
The CHILEAN government announces
Rehabilitation of the army fer the
end of November ostensibly for man
oeuvres," says dispatch 10 the Daily
Mail from Buenos Ayres. The Argen-
tine fleet has ordered provisions and
coal, and the sailors are working day
and night. Three thousand NANTES
tants have arrived"
The exhibition authorities at Glas-
Cow are becoming uneasy over the
reports of the financial failure of the
Buffalo exposition and fear that such
failure may fall to their lot. The
Glasgow officials expected to have .
100000 surplus, but present ac-
counts show that the surplus will be