Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-10-09
FOREIGN,

Turkish troops have been sent into
the interior of Macedonia.
Mexico has acquired control of the
Inter-Oceanic railroad in that country.
Pietro Mascagni, the noted must
clan, sailed from Cherbourg for New
York.
A woman rebel leader was among
the fourteen who were beheaded in
China
From 100 to 400 persons are believed
to have been killed by a cyclone in
Sicily.
Sir Marcus Samuel was elected lord
mayor of London, to succeed Sir
Joseph Dimsdale.
Henry Phipps, of Pittsburg, has
has given 100000 to aid the boer
widows and orphans.
London Truth says that the accouch-
mont of the princess of Wales is eX-
pectcd in November.
The volcano on Stromboli island, off
the north coast of Sicily, has been
active for several days past.
England has joined the United
States in protesting against the treat
ment of ROumanian Jews.
Cholera is spreading through Egypt,
500 new cases being reported daily
and about 80 per cent. fatal.
Grand Duke Boris, in an interview
in Paris, says the progress OF the
American people is terrifying"
No
telegram from south Africa announc-
ing the death of his 13-year-old son.
An earthquake in Russian Turkestan
has killed over 900 people. The town
of AksukstChe was completely de-
stroyed.
A firm of Berlin booksellers has
purchased the rights to Gen. De Vets
book on the war in south Africa for
$4,000.
Commandant Leroy Laduric was
dismissed from the French army for
refusing to obey orders in closing re-
ligious schools.
The mayor of the town of ST Emil
ard, France, finding it impossible to
please everybody by his decisions, has
hanged himself.
Forgeries by L. II. Greig, a London
bookkeeper of the Carnegie company,
are now alleged to amount to many
! thousands of dollars.
Mr.. Lehman, publisher of the me
mOirs of former President Kruger, has
given Mr.. Kruger S15O,00O to be de
AI tn JC
Capt Sverdrup's arctic expedition
returned to Christiania, Norway, and
was welcomed by salutes from the
! fort and thousands of spectators.
| An English woman named Sylvia
| Clerk was robbed on train between
Milan and BoulOgne of a valiso con
tanning jcwolry of the value of $4,000.
The universal congress of free
thinkers, in session at Geneva, sent a
message to the French government
indorsing the lattcrs stand against
| clcriCalism in the schools.
Alfred Moseley's recently selected
! industrial commission VIII leave for
New York about the end of next month
to inquire into the conditions and
methods of labor in America.
| Emperor William has pardoned
| Lieut.. Theme, who was sentenced to
81 months Imprisonment in a fortress
for killing a student, named Helf, in a
pistol duel at Jena in January.
Tho eastern coast of Sicily was
swept by cyclone and hundreds of
persons were killed. The country was
swept inland by a high sea which
flooded Catania and DESTROYED much
property
The car has expressed, personally
and through Count Lamsdorff, the for.
cign minister, his regret at the ap,
preaching departure of CharIemagne
, Tower, the American ambassador
! there.
Timothy Mccarthy and Thomas Me
. DwyCr, respectively editor and man
ager OF the Irish People, charged under
the crimes act with publishing intimi
dations, were each sentenced to two
months imprisonment
Maria Christina, mother of the king
of Spain, is said to have secretly mar
ricd Count de Ia Escoseura, her master
! of horses. The relations between her
and King Alfonso are reported
, strained as n result
Count Edward Stadlos, a member OF
one of the noblest families of Austria
having become a Cobbler after dissi
pating his fortune some years ago has
fallen heir to vast estates, but con
tinues making and repairing shoes.
The national congress of French
miners, in session at Commentary
France, adopted a resolution by vote
of so to is in favor of an eighthou
day including the time occupied il
descending and ascending to and from
the mines and meals.
The Australian commonwealth is
threatened with the secession Of
Queensland because of federal legisla
ton on colored labor. which will Kill
the sugar industry there. Civil wal
may result as the constitution does
not provide for secession.
The Vienna Neues Wiener Journa
announces that as a result OF the re