Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-02-09
FOREIGN.

The elections to the Norwegian
sforthing having been adverse to the
ministry, Premier Knudson today
submitted to the king the resigna-
ton of the cabinet
A D. Foster, surgeon of the Ma
rine hospital at Annoy VINO was ap-
pointed American vice consul in that
city last October, has been trans
ferred to Hong Kong.
Nicaragua's government will APP
peal from the verdict OF the court
that acquitted the members ,of the
court-martial that sentenced Cannon
and Groce, Americans to death
The Grecian cabinet has notified
King George of its decision to re-
sign Owing To the dictation of the
Military league it is impossible to
secure a parliamentary quorum ana
under these conditions the cabinet
declares its continuance is imp0ssI-
BILE.
A man who is believed to be Dr.
Frederick A. Cook, the discredIted
discoyerer of the north pole, is in
hiding at an asylum managed by "a
DIR. Furer in the valley of the Neckar,
twenty-five miles from Heidelberg.
He strongly resembles photographs
and pictures of Cook.
During a Socialist election reform
demonstration at Brunswick several
shots were fired from the crowd.
The police charged, using their sa-
bres enefgetically, and as result
fifteen wounded persons we're re-
moved to the hospitals A police
sergeant was seriously injured.
Princess Louise, eldest daughter
of the late King Leopold Of Belgium,
has lost her suit to recover from
Baroness Vaughan, the morganatic
wife of the king. the latter's villa at
Balincourt. The court decided that
the villa was the property of the
baroness and that it was not a royal
residence.
American Ambassador Hill gave 70
the German press a statement by
the department of agriculture de-
signed to correct misunderstanding
over the recent report on the system
of meat inspection in the unitea
States. made by DR.. A. d. Melvin,
chief of the bureau of animal INDUSTRY
of the department of agriculture.
President Bowling of the Northern
Miners federation of Australia was
convicted of obstructing work at the
mines during the strike and SEN
fenced to one year at hard laborin
prison. Three other strike Ieadets
We're given sentences each Of eight
months at hard labor. while a NUM-
Der Of miners were condemned 10
briefer terms of Imprisonment.
An early rebuff was met by tine
recently formed Hedervary cabinet,
when the chamber with a large ma.
| iority, voted a want of confidence In
the ministry. The premier then drew
from his pocket an imperial reseript
| adjourning the house to March 4.
The usual scenes of disorder accom-
panied the departure Of the ministers
from the house.
The Japanese foreign office has IS.
sued q statement, which IS published
in all Japanese newspapers, setting
forth that the government is FUZZY
satisfied with the good intentions OF
the American government in connec.
tion with the proposal for the neu-
tralization of the Manchurian rair.
ways and the officials of the depart.
ment are now firmly convinced that
the American suggestion was adj
vanced in most friendly spirit ana
with the desire to benefit Japan.
While the greatest reticence is still
observed in the official quarters re-
garding the progress OF the tariff ne.
gotiations which Ambassador Jusser.
and is conducting at Washington,
confidence is manifested in Paris that
the danger of a rupture has passed,
1t Is understood that France is about
ready to accede to the American de-
mand for a minimum tariff on some
fifteen or twenty articles. such as
agricultural machinery. tools and sim.
liar implements, which come into
competition with other foreign coun.
tries, and that the meat controversy
will be satisfactorily adjusted.