Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-08-15
FOREIGN.

A Bismarck memorial service was
held in Berlin.
Starvation ravages the coasts OF
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Charousek and Cohn lead in the
Cologne chess tournament.
C. N. Curzon has stated his will
ingness to accept the post of viceroy
of India.
j. .ey repudiated Americas claims
for damages growing out of the mas
sacres in Armenia.
Colombia has agreed to deposit bond
for $500 900 to signify it's Willingness
to settle the Cerruti calm.
Efforts are being made in Eng
land to persuade the Prince of Wales
to visit the United States.
Queen Victoria's reputed invest
ing agent in the United States, John
Petit, is said to have disappeared.
Russ'a is said to be in practical
possession of New Chwang and to
have closed the "open door, in north
Oh na
Germanys emperor is agitated by
an affront received from Herbert
Bismarck, in connection with the fu-
neral of the prince.
The Paris Temps says that this
country has expressed a desire to en-
large the scope of the reciprocity
treaty existing with France.
The French court of cessation dis
missed the appeal of M. Emile Zola
against une court which sentenced
him for libe4--ng the Esterhazy court
martial.
The general chapter of the Catholic
Order eff the Holy Cross met in secret
session at the Holy Cross College at
Cote des Nieges, Quebec, for the first
time in six years.
The queen of Denmark, it is stated
is not sick, and the departure OF the
Princess of Walse from England is
now thought to have been due to
quarrel with the prince.
A Newfoundland fisherman con-
firms the report that a steamer went
down in the Straits of Belle Isle. He
says that the vessel struck an ice
berg and quickly sank,
The fire which broke out in the
reservoirs of the Dunk'rk petroleum
factory at Dunkirk, France, was mas
tered after $4,000 hectolitres of petro-
leum had been destroyed.
Tt is stated in a dispatch from Lon
don that war is threatened in con-
sequence of Russia's persistent OPP
position to the extension of British
aioJ IN
Archbishop Walsh of Toronto, who
died this week, is said to have been
the pope's choice for successor to
Cardinal Taschereau as Canada's rep
resentative in the sacred college.
Prince Herbert Bismarck has begun
the prosecution of two Hamburg
photographers for getting into
Friedsrichsruhe castle and taking
pictures of the statesman as he lay
dead.
Emperor William II. published an
imperial rescript at Berlin, praising
the great services of Bismarck to the
German nation and vowing to protect
and increase the empire which he
founded.
The village cf Mediana, Spain, has
been wrecked by a tornado. VIII Oh
killed many persons. Several houses
at Hornillos have been engulfed by
the floods and a number of people
have persisted
A private cablegram received at
Cape Haytien states that General
Jiminez, wNo attempted to overthrow
the government of President Heure-
aux, was acqu tied at Ma ~sau on the
charge of having violated the foreign
enlistment act.
The Norwegian brigantine Tiber !,
at St. Johns N F., Captain Fyogstad,
twenty-four days from Reyjavik, re-
ports passing Nansen's arctic steamer
Fran July IA in latitude 62 degrees
1e minutes ncrth, longitude so de-
grees 26 minutes west
George Doughty, former liberal
member of Parliament for Grimsby,
who applied FIR the Chiltern Hun
dreds recently on account Of a
change of opinion on liberal policy,
espec' ally on the Irish home rule
question. was reelected by his old
constituency as a unionist. MT.
Doughty received 1910 votes against
3,1S9 cast for J. Wirtringham, liberal.