Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-10

Americas success causes alarm In
the old world.
Britous are worried over the sltua
ton in south Africa.
Count Won Buelow is severely criti
ci8cd by Berlin papers.
China has agreed to conditions
named In the note Of powers.
Nogrete Il Sons, prominent bankers
of Guadalajara, Mexico, have failed for
$4,000 900.
The car and c2arina will return to
TnarBkoc- Solo, near st. Petersburg
about Feb. 2.
Droyfus has written to Premier
Waldeck-Rousseau demanding a new
investigation,
Beers killed fifty British defending
Hclvetia, wounded fOrty-siX, and took
200 prisoners.
The British have rcoCCuped Ficks-
burg, which for some time had been
in the hands of the boors.
At London, Miss Marriott mrs Al.
ice Edgar the actress, Is dead She
made an American tour about 1870.
Edmund Morrison Wimperie, vice.
president of the English Royal lnsti.
tuto Of Painters in Water Colors, Is
dead.
The British steamship Lake Mogan.
tie carrying Canadian mails, was fore.
cd to return to Queenstown by a ter.
rifle gale.
The Lenster Regiment, commanded
by Major Barry, had n skirmish last
ing four hours with the boors at
Drcifontoin on Dec 81, suffering slight
losses
The condition Of the grand duke of
SnXo,Weimar is considered moro sori-
ous, his original malady having be.
come complicated with inflammation
of the lungs.
More than G,O00 persons, four-nrths
Of whom went to the United States
cmigratcd from Christiania, Norway
during the last II months, rs against
$500 in 1899
The Finnish senate has voted 10000
marks annually for five years to a
steamship company for the purpose
of keeping open winter communica-
tion between Sweden and Finland.
Kimhorlyd Is almost isolated by
bocr raiders. No mails have reached
there from Dee 10 to Dec, %, Fro.
visions are ut famine prices. The mil.
itury took charge Of all the foodsturfs
on Dee. %.
Richard Croker, who had been rustl.
eating for several weeks in Carlsbad
and Nice, returned to Vantage, Eng
land, two days before Christmas, whore
he received a summons to appear Jan,
. in reply to inquiries respecting his
income In connection with the income
| tax.
The commission for the promotion
! of Swedeus foreign commerce pro
poses the establishment of regular
steamer lines to the United States and
south Africa, particularly the United
States, whence imports are rapidly
growing, while Swedish exports are un
important.
The duke of Norfolk headed banC
of over 200 English pilgrims who hay,
just started for Rome. The cost of tn,
tourney and stay in Rome has beer
Choaponed by tourist agents Cardina
Vaughan will join the pilgrims II
Rome and the pope will receive an,
address them.
Samuel Il. Caldwell of Nonkers, n
V, for more than quarter of cen
fury United States consular agent a
Seville, Spain, lies Mt the point o
death in st Thomas hospital, London
Mr., Caldwell, who is 70 years old, wa
the last American official to leav
Spain on the outbreak OF hostilitles II
1898.
The United States has been invite,
through the German ambassador a
Washington. to take part in the inter
national exhibition of fire preventing
and fire saving arrangements to b
held in Berlin during the months o
June and July next in commemorative
of the hftieth anniversary of the oil
} ganization of the Berlin fire brigade.