Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-09
CABLE GOSSIP AND PERSONALS.

A dispatch from Berlin says Princess
Frederick Leopold will shortly be ac>
couched.
Ninety thousand Spanish soldiers
will be summoned in September to serve
with the colors.
Five men were drowned by the cap
sizing of yawl at Skegness, on the
east coast of England.
The torpedo-boat destroyer Sokol,
built by Yarrow d Co. for the Russian
government, had a speed trial, when she
attained speed of 30.2S5 knots per
hour.
Emperor Francis Joseph will attend
the approaching maneuyers of the Ger,
man army. He viii not pass through
Berlin, but will take the route by way
of Breslau.
The Daily News says the Duke of
Devonshire, lord president of the council,
sprained one of his ankles while grouse
shooting in Lancashire. His injury is
not serious.
A dispatch from Gibraltar says the
little American sloop Spray, which ar
rived there some days ago from Boston,
has started for Yokohama by way OF
Cape Town.
The Post announces that Col. How
land Roberts, son of the late Sir Thomas
Roberts of County Cork, ireland. will
shortly marry Miss Elizabeth Marie,
youngest daughter of w. [. Laroche,
NJ D., of Harrington Park, n. j.
The heat in Germany has been al
most beyond endurance throughout the
week. Twenty soldiers were prostrat>
ed with sunstroke during march from
Zossen to Potsdam, and three persons
died from the effects of the heat ia the
streets of Berlin.
-Infanta Eulalia, the Spanish Princess
who made SO many friends in the United
States on her visit to the Chicago exhibit
ton, has been hobbling about on clutches
for four weeks, having broken one of the
small bones of an ankle while playing
lawn tennis with her sister, the Infanta
Paz. and the latter's husband, Prince
Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria, at the Pal
ace of Nymphenburg, near Munich,
where she has been staying. She is SO
active. so full of life and spirit that the
difficulty in getting about has affected
her health to such a degree that the doc
tors have insisted on her undergoing
treatment at the French watering place
of Royat.
Mile. de Chambrun was married last
week to the French African explorer,
Count Brazza-Savorgnon Although the
bearer of French name, and historic
one at that, she may almost be regarded
as an American girl. Her father, the
late Marquis de Chambrun. was en-
gagged in the practice of law at Washing
ton, which he made his home, and was
the counsel, but not the counsellor, of
the French embassy. The title of coun-
sellor in the diplomatic service belongs
to the senior first secretaries who are
on the point of becoming ENJOYS them
selves, whereas the Marquis de Cham
brun was merely the legal adviser of the
mission.
Another Internal ional union is that
which has taken place in London be-
tween the Count de Noue and Miss The
resa Taylor daughter of George r. Tay-
lor of ST. Louis. The count bears one Of
the most illustrious names in France,
and is younger son of that gallant and
popular general, the Marquis de Noue
He himself is lieutenant of artillery,
stationed at Nancy, where he proposes
to take his American wife after a visit
next month to st. Louis. At the present
moment the young couple are touring in
Ireland, and will spend a short time at
the De Noue Chateau du Lys, near
Melun, before sailing for New York