Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-11-20

with Germany in Africa, Asia Minor
or China.
A dispatch received in London from
Calcutta says the Indian government
has refused the Standard Oil company
permission to prospect in the oil fields
Of Burma.
The Silesian Banking association
announced at Breslau, Prussia, that
the cashier of the securities depart
ment of the bank had embezzled
$57,5OO.
The American billiardists who ex-
pected to participate in an interna-
/ tional tournament at Paris, to begin
/ Jan. 10 and end Jan. 81, are Sutton,
/ Schaefer, Slosson and Howison.
Only a few of the exiled Russian
students will return to their univer,
sites The majority have refused
to abstain from taking part in poll
tics and have elected to remain in
Siberia.
President Loubet signed the law
providing for pensioning the widows
and orphans of French civil and mill
tary officers who lost their lives at
the time of the volcanic disasters in
Martinique.
AIoi Miller, who, with Peter Won
SchleCta, had been on trial since Oct
27, charged with trafficking in forged
patents of nobility, was sentenced at
Prague Bohemia, to two years i'm
prisOnment.
A scandal involving peers of Eng
land is Of such disgraceful nature
that the government has suppressed
the evidence and issued an unofficial
decree of Punishment against one
prominent lord.
General Manuel Lizando Barillas,
former president of Guatemala and a
colonel in the Guatcmalan army, is
dead as the result of asphyxiation by
volcanic gas in the vicinity of the
Santa Maria volcano.
Canada has about abandoned the
idea Of a preferred tariff schedule
with Great Britain, owing to the OPP
position of Secretary Of Colonies
Chamberlain. Laurier admits the
hopelessness of allowing the desired
end.
1t has been decided that the details
and conditions of the evacuation of
Shanghai by the troops of the powers
are to be adjusted subsequent to the
actual evacuation, which will as previ-
ousIy agreed upon, take place at an
early date.
Lord Miner, British high commits
sioner to south Africa, expresses the
conviction that in their coal and iron
deposits and in their agricultural de
yelopment England's new colonies will
find a surer source of wealth than in
the gold reefs.
The Petit Journal asserts that the
bombardment of Midi on the coast of
Arabia. by two Italian gunbOats, was
not a mere police operation against
pirates, but the beginning of con-
flct with Turkey for which Italy has
long been preparing.
Lord Kitchener, who is in Cairo on
his way to India, formally opened the
new Gordon college there in the pres
cnce of a number of notable persons.
He delivered a long speech, in which |
he dwelt upon the progress of the |
SOudan and its prospects,
Count Boni de Castellane, husband |
of Anna Could was unseated by the |
French chamber of deputies by 27S |
to 23S votes, following charges of ir-
roguaritios in his election. He |
denied buying votes and practicing
charity for politics, with which Count |
de Chduyin accused him.
Reports of brutality to prisoners !
riyaling the horrors of the ancient IN |
QUESTION come from Barcelona In |
order to extract confessions from |
thieves and other criminals the police |
have inaugurated a system of elabo- |
rate and cruel tortures. Many prison |
Crs have died from the effects of this |
examination"
Thrtythree Irish natiOnalists are
now serving or waiting sentence under !
the coercion act. The police are &C
CusCd of manufacturing evidence. Mrs. |
Anne OMahOny, a Waterford news
paper publisher, was imprisoned two
months on bread and water for refus-
ing bail English ofticeseekers and
dual land ownership are blamed for
the islands troubles
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