Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-15
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Crispi is rapidly sinking.

III SOuJn RUSSIA.
At attempt was made to blow up
Zela's house at Paris with a bomb.
The pope will not break with
France because of the anti-clerical
law.
CASTOR Steigler of the Paris Matin
completed a trip around the world
in Ga days.
The Maconi system of wireless
telegraphy will be installed along the
Labrador coast.
Gomez, who plotted against the life
of Napoleon Ill, was pardoned after
serving 43 years.
Professor Reinhard Kekule Won
Stradonitz has been elected rector Of
the Berlin university.
Austrian shoemakers threaten vio-
lence if American shoe stores are
operated in their country.
Lord Lansdowne announced that
the powers were resolved to maintain
the present status in Crete
A gang of swindlers who have been
victimizing rich young men was dis
covered by the Paris police.
The pope is likely to appoint two
more cardinals in the United States,
one to be Archbishop Ireland.
A resolution censuring the Peru
Wan cabinet failed in the chamber Of
deputies at Lima by one vote.
Proposed tariff changes injurious
to the United States have been de-
feated in the Brazilian congress.
Senior PulidO. Venezuelan minister
Of war, resigned from the cabinet
rather than bring on war with Colon
bia.
Creditors of the Standard Explora-
ton company at a meeting in London
demanded the lynching of the per-
sons responsible for losing their
money.
The Venezuelan army, which is to
cope with the revolution in that
country, is said not to exceed 5000
men.
Vice President Zanartu of Chile is
reported to have resigned as a pro-
test against further military prepare
tions.
Earthquake were general through
out southern Italy. The strongest
shocks occurred at Avezzone and
Portici
The house of lords decided that a
peerless after divorce and remarriage
is entitled to retain her divorced
husbands title.
Ambassador Jules Cambon, in an
interview in Paris, said West Point is
preparing for the United States in.
comparable Chiefs
A woman who secured an Ameri-
can divorce and afterwards married
again in Canada is to be tried for
bigamy ut Toronto.
The house of commons voted that
Alfred Harmsworth, publisher of the
London Daily Mail, had been guilty
of breach of privilege.
James ]. OShea. Irish nationalist,
was expelled from the commons for
violent criticism of Baron OBrien,
lord chief justice of Ireland.
If the Colombian rebels obstruct
the isthmus Of Panama the United
States will keep traffic open, accord
ing to it's treaty requirements,
The tea growers Of Japan are
about to organize a trust which will
seek to control the market for
Japanese teas by limiting the supply
A terrible fire is raging in the eX-
tensive pine forests near Kalden
kinchen on the Dutch-Prussian from
tier. The damage thus far is $240,-
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General Rafel Uribe-Uribe. who is
again battling in Colombia for liberal
supremacy, has been declared an
outlaw by the Colombian govern
ment.
An American newspaper man was
expelled from Germany on the charge
that he ATTEMPTED to obtain an
advance copy of the new German
tariff bill.
Dean Goegory has decided to in
spect thoroughly the dome of st.
Pauls cathedral. inside and outside,
owing to cracks which have appeared
in the walls.
The dowager empress of Germany
died at FriedriChshof after long
illness. All of her children were
present except Prince Henry, who
was at Cadiz. She was the eldest
daughter of Queen Victoria and the
mother # the German emperor. She
was 81 years old
The frequent walks across the
Swiss Italian frontier Of girls at the
seminary near Maslianco aroused the
suspicion OF the customs officers,
who finally stopped a procession of
forty walking two by two, and as
certained that each girl was snug
Cling cigars or cigarettes of the ag
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