Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-09-05
FOREIGN.

Yellow fever is reported at Vera
Cruz, Mexico.
The banking department of Lows
Exchange in London has suspended.
At M sc w the car unveiled mon
ument to his grandfather, Alexan-
der L.
The command rs of the vessels
which wer9 in Admiral Cervara, s
squadr will be court-martialed upon
their return to Spain.
The Anglc- Egyptian expedition in
the Soudan is now in sight of Omdur-
man, the KhaIifa's capital.
The prince of Wales landed from
his yacht the first time in a
month, and took carriage ride.
Negotiations have been opened to
obtain PERMISSION for the Spaniards
SOW in the Ladrones to go to Manila.
Premier Sagasta is quoted in an in
terview as saying that discussion of
tie war will be repressed in the cor
ties.
The steamer Hope has returned to
st. Johns, N. F., after carrying the
L Co4 AlSl4C OAp1O1H1S CAp0uICIOu u
Foulke Fiard.
A const tuition for the United States
Ct Central America, embracing Saliva
dr., Honduras and Nicaragua, has
been signed at Managua.
1t is officially announced that there
were 1900 deaths from plague last
week in the Bombay presidency, and
the epidemic is spr5 aiding.
Great Britain has intimated to
China that any fai ure by the Picking
government to observe the wishes of
Great Britain will be accepted as a
casus belli
DR.. John Hopkinson, the English
electrical engineer, his son and two
daughters, were killed while ascending
Den SIDE Visivi, Canton of Valais,
mountains in Switzerland.
A gen eral council at Nantes, France,
has issued regulation that all i'm
ported horses shall be bonded, so
menacing has the importation of
American horses become to French
breeding.
At a meeting Of the miners in Eng
land it was decided to- accept the
employers terms, by which the min
ers get an increase of per cent in
wages. This ends disastrous six
months strike.
The London Daily Mail says the
peace commissioner of Spain will be
Senior Le0ny Castillo, Spanish ambas-
sador at Paris; Senior Urrutia, Spa ish
minister at Brussels; Duke of Najer,
COVER or of Cadiz; Senior Marcoartu,
and Senior Abarzuza.
Count Muravieff, the Russian for
eign minister. has handed to each of
the foreign representatives at st. Pc
tersburg a note sta ing that the czar
proposes an internati nal conference
for reducing excessive armies and
br 'nging universal peace.
Wong Fey, Chinese merchant in
Wellington, New Zealand, who recent
1y failed, made the following state
ment OF his condition: "I see nv
troubles endless to come. I can't get
my money tt pay. [ am helpless.
During last three years over thirty
six creditors support my business.
During last two months not one let
me have a penny on tick Fish can
never live in dry pond without
water. Engine can't move along
without we'll supply of cca1. Boy
can't fly his kite without tail on it.
| Housekeeper pour out all tea to the
cup no ref1led water, how she give
you more tea you require? All empty
out u t the way like my business"
Owing to the failure of harvests in
seven districts of the government of
Kazan and in the provinces of ga
maria, Saratof, Simbirik. Viatka and
Perma in Russia, where the crops are
Almost worthless and even the landed
gentry is beginning to ask the gov
eminent for relief, the government