Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-05-01
FOREIGN,


The marquis of Devonshire was
granted a divorce in London.
President Loubet attended the open
ing of the new salon in Paris.
The pope received in audience a
large number of Swiss pilgrims.
A bomb factory, supported by anar-
chists, has been discovered at Jurjeff,
Russia.
Political prisoners in Russia are
starving themselves in an effort to
| secure speedy trial.
The Belgian chamber of representa-
tives voted down the proposition for
universal suffrage.
The level of the Black and Caspian
seas was found lowered by the recent
earthquakes at Shemaklia.
The new Australian tariff bill per
mits a suspension of duties which lead
| to trade combinations.
An explosion at Managua, Nicara-
qua, destroyed the military barracks,
and 100 or 200 soldiers are reported
| killed.
Prince Ching, president of the
Chinese foreign board, protests against
the exclusion Of Chinese from the
Philippines.
st Petersburg university reopened,
| but with small attendance. Four hun
dred students will probably be exiled
| for riOting.
Hermann GansWendt, who invented
flying machine, was arrested by the
| German police on charges of forgery
and swindling.
| In the City of Mexico severe earth
quake shock was felt. It's duration
was one minute and half, the longest
experienced in years.
| Russian peasants are starving and
dying of disease in the grain growing
| districts. There are 1000 cases of
| typhus and scurvy at Menzelinsk.
The reports of the dangerous illness
of Maxim Cork, the author, prove to
be unfounded, says a st. Petersburg
dispatch. He is in excellent health
and is writing play.
| Emperor Williams yacht Meteor
reached Southampton after a rough
| Atlantic passage. The bOwsprit was
carried away and the decks were I'M
| der water two weeks.
Colonel MaXimoff has been sentenced
| at st. Petersburg to two years i'm
prisonment for killing Prince Wittgen-
stein in a duel. The court recon-
mended that the colonel be pardoned.
In the British house of lords official
announcement was made of the annul-
ment of the bankruptcy of the duke
of Manchester, enabling him to take
his seat again among the hereditary
| legislators of the British empire.
Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Parsons, X. G.
| M. G., the new commander of the i'm
perial troops in Canada, arrived at
Halifax He was received with hon
ors by the garrison and a guard OF
honor from the royal Canadian regi-
ment.
A serious riot occurred at Louvain,
near Brussels. The socialists held q
demonstration. The police, in at
tempting to dispense them, were receiv-
ed with showers of stones. The civic
guard then fired on the mob. A SINH
lar riot occurred in another part Of
LouVain, and altogether five persons
were killed and twelve were wounded.
A Chinese banker, from the province
of KWang 81 says the rebels in that
province hold over thirty towns and
villages and that they are we'll armed
with Mauser rifles and revolvers. They
have adopted the name of Hung Stu
Chuen, the famous leader of the Tai
the country with announcements that
the present dynasty has sold parts of
China to foreign powers.
The London Daily Telegraph an
nounces that prolonged negotiations
have resulted in a new combination
among the steamship lines, involving
no change in officials and little
change in management. The lines are
the White Star, the Dominion, the
Leyland, the Atlantic Transport, the
American and the Red Star lines. Thel
joint control of the amalgamated COM
panies will be practically in the hands
Of the same men who guide their sep
arate destinies, the intention being to |
reduce working expenses, to avoid I
ruinous competition, and to secure |
harmonious working relations with |
the great American railways.
At a secret session of the Danish |
landsthing, three reports on the treaty |
providing for the sale of the Danish |
West Indies to the United States were
submitted. The light, constituting the
majority, was in favor of deferring
the ratification of the treaty until
after a vote in which only electors and !!
members of the colonial islands shall |
take part. Tuesday the majority re-
port will be formally adopted The
will decline to concur in
the report. The ministry and members
of the rigsdag consider the appoint
ment of a conference committee likely.
while a compromise on the report
made by the Independent group of ten
is probable.
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