Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-03-19

FOREIGN.
A courier from Fee announces the
capture of the pretender.
The crown princess of Saxony and
NJ. Giron will be married in August.
Pope Leo received 5000 pilgrims
from Germany, Austria, and Belgium
| The German emperor will visit
Rome in May and the car is coming
in November.
Charles r. Yerkes is in favor OF a
channel tunnel to connect England
with the continent.
Vesuvius has again become active.
The volcano Is throwing up ashes and
explosive incandescent globes.
Venezuelan peace protocols were
unfavorably received at Caracas, and
may not be ratified by congress.
The number of theological students
in the great German university has
fallen off greatly in the past few
years.
At Munich the abbess of an old
six years for attempting to murder
a servant
The February statement of the
London board of trade shows a de-
crease of $5,600,0O0 in imports and an
increase Of $731G,0O0 in exports.
c., r. Deylin, nationalist, was elect
ed unanimously to represent Galway
in the British commons in place of
Col Lynch, in prison for treason.
The kaiser is accused by socialists
in the German reichstag with abetting
army duels by pardoning officers con
yictod of murder in courts of honor"
The government of Victoria has APP
pointed Thomas TAFT, traffic manager
Of the Canadian Pacific railway, to be
chief commissioner of the Victorian
railways.
The Canadian steamship subsidy by
the British government Will be con
ditiOncd on promise not to enter
pools, shipping combines, or emf
grafton agreements
At Montreal the steamer Montreal
burned at her dock and in panic
among the spectators, caused by a
failing SuCu, dI least luI0e WcIt
killed and many injured.
King Edward held a levee in the
throne room of Buckingham palace.
Among those present was United
States Consul General Evans, who
was presented by Ambassador ChOate.
The final court of appeals in Prus-
STA has sustained the police in pro-
hibiting the production of Paul
Heyse's Mary of Magdala, holding
that the theology of the play is bad.
The tomb OF the Egyptian King
Thotmes w., near ThcGcs, was founo
to contain the mummiGed loins of
beef, mutton, and poultry placed
there 1000 years ago A chariot
body was found intact.
President d. r. Francis of the St
Louis exposition was given a fifty
minute interview with the kaiser,
where a usual audience lasts five min
utes. 4 dinner was given for him by
the empcror's representative.
Earl Cowley, a leading figure in the
Hartopp and several other matrl.
monial sensations, is said to be en-
gagged to marry Miss Dorothy Jeffer-
son, the extremely pretty 19-year-old
daughter OF Mrs jefferson, an Ameri-
can.
! Prince Henry of Prussia called at
the Berlin studio of Mrs. Cadwalder
Guild, the American sculptor, Satur,
day and spent an hour in examining
her work The prince was par
ticularly interested in bust Of
President Mckinley
At Johannesburg two men attacked
custom officers conveying $4,000 TO
the bank, and throwing pepper in
their eyes, secured the money bags
which they threw to a horseman, who
galloped off The horse threw the
the rider, who was arrested and the
money recovered.
Major General PaprikoH has sent
II his resignation as minister Of wal
of Bulgaria because his colleagues
rejected his demand for a credit oil
$l,600,oo0 for the purchase Of wal
material. Unless Prince Ferdinand
cabinet will resign.
Il. +, Patterson. United States
consul general at Calcutta, reporting
upon the cotton crop Of India il
1g02.l905, estimates IL mt 3,50o.00
bales, an increase Of 100000 bale:
over the crop Of the year previous
Attention Is called to the extension
OF area placed under cotton
Dowager Queen Margherita of Ital!
received in private audience Unite,
States Consul General De Castro AM
Mrs. De Castro. The queen Shove,
considerable interest in the larg
number Of Italian emigrants going 1
the United States aud expresse
satisfaction at the fact that Their
/ we're now SO many Americans /
Rome.