Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-02
Foreign.

Japaneses instructors will train the
Chinese army.
1t has been decided to canonize
Joan of Arc.
German shipbuilding for 1901 shows
heavy increase.
Oil has been found at a depth OF
2,115 feet near SueZ, Egypt.
1t is officially announced in Berlin
that in consequence of the murder of
Great Britain and the Netherlands
will delimit the boundary of Dutch
Guiana.
Earl of Rosslyn breaks the gaming
bank at Ostend and will advance on
Monte Carlo.
Lord Wolseley denounces civil con
memoirs.
Senator Depew arrived in Paris On
his way to Nice, where he will be mar
RCD Saturday.
Seventy native Christians who were
massacred by boxers were given a
public funeral.
Agitation against the sale Of the
Danish West Indies to the United
States is Increasing at Copenhagen.
New trouble is threatened at
KoWcyt on the Persian gulf, where
the local sheilIh has defined the
sultan.
a German near Pekin, on August 8
fifteen members of the band found
guilty of the crime have been ex-
ecuted.
AS a result of the excitement in the
copper market William Sergeant,
head of one of London's oldest metal
firms, failed
It is reported that the Colombian
Liberals have captured Rio Hacha.
and that they were aided by Ven.
ezuelan troops
A London jury sentenced Ann
O'Delia Diss De Bar to years penal
servitude and Theodore Jackson to ! :
years for immoral practice and fraud.
John Barrett addressing the pan
American congress at the City of
Mexico, said he hoped the United
States tariff would soon be lowered.
A Paris paper asserts that Com,
mandant General Botha has reported
to Mr.. Kruger that ne has $4,000
armed men, 10000 being Cape Colony
recruits.
Germany's rigid exclusion of foreign
hogs has resulted in raising the price
of fresh pork several cents, while the
number of German hogs has greatly
decreased.
Miss Heel Singer, daughter of
Charles Singer of Chicago, has mar
ried Prince John Ghika, son of the
Roumanian minister to France.
Gregorie ]. Ghika.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Kennedy, rector Of
the American college at Rome, has
been appointed domestic preIate to
the pope. This is one of the highest
posts at the vatican
In a speech at a luncheon given in
his honor by the governor of New
foundland, Marconi said he expected
to be able to cable across the Atlantic
for one cent a word
Signor Prinetti, foreign minister, de-
clared in the Italian chamber of
deputies that his government would
accept indemnity for italians Iynched
in the United States.
A statue was unveiled to Charles
Baudin, the French deputy who was
killed on the barricade of st. Antoine
in 1853 on the day following
coup d'etat.
A st. Petersburg capitalist has
promised to supply 100000 roubles for
the expenses of a north polar explor-
ing party which plans to leave next
year in the ship Panteleimon
The Turkish government notified
naturaIized Americans at Beyrout, |
Syria that they must renounce their
naturalization in fifteen days or they
will be expelled from the country.
DR.. Sylvestro, born an American, |
but naturalized as . Frenchman, has
invented a spectograph, which enables |
a person using a telephone to see his |
and the latter's surround |
ings.
Emperor Wilhelm, at a dinner to
artists in Berlin, said the cultivation
of the ideal is the highest mission Of
civilization. He held that German
ait now approaches the classical
-ta1dard
a dispatch from Nkandhia, Zulu
land, tells of a recent action near
in which Commandant
Louis Botha was shot through the left
leg below the knee. He escaped
capture by crawling into the bush