Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-02-21

Ferdinand Fabre, the novelist, died
in Paris.
Clara Barton, president of the Red
Cross, has arrived at Havana.
General Jones, United States con-
sui at Chin Kiang, is dead.
Captain Picquart gave testimony
favorable to Dreyfus in the trial of
Emile lola in Paris.
Paul Kruger has been reelected
president of the South African repub-
lie.
Captain General Blanco has returned
to Havana from his unsuccessful cam
paign against the insurgents.
Sarah Bernhard, who has been
suffering from internal pains, is about
to submit to an operation.
Anarchy prevails in France over
the Zola-Dreyfus case, and it is said
to be the most serious crisis there
since 1870.
1t is announced in Madrid that Senior
Louis Polo Bernabe will be appointed
minister to the United States to sue
coed Senior Dupuy de LONE.
President Cuestas of Uruguay ad in
term, has issued a decree dissolving
the Assembly and became provisional
governor.
Official advices received in Paris
from Pekin say Japan has notified
China that she intends to keep Wei
Hai-Wei permanently.
News comes from Hawaii that q
marriage has been arranged between
Princess Victoria Kaiulani and Prince
David Kawananakoa.
Autonomists in Cuba will offer new
propositions to the revolutionists,
comprising something closely akin to
independence.
Count Gustav Siegmund Kalnoky,
eX-mperial minister of foreign af-
fairs in Austria, died Sunday. He
entered the diplomatic service in 1850
Sir William Dawson, formerly prin-
cipa1 of McGill university and one of
the greatest biologists in the world,
is very i'll at Montreal, his left side
being almost paralyzed.
The steamer Marabelia was sunk in
Hull Roads, England, by collision with
! the British warship Galatea. Forty
race horses were lost. The passengers
and crew were saved.
Recent orders from Brazil to the
United States for twenty locomotives
are regarded by the press of Rio
Janeiro as a sign of a renewal of the
commercial relations between the two
governments.
1t is asserted that great combina-
ton of the spinners Of fine counts of
cotton belonging to the Manchester
district has been arranged, with a
capital of about $3O,000,OO0.
China has consented to the British
demand for railway from Burma to
Humankind Germany has secured a
concession for railway from Kiao-
Chou to Ichau.
John Dillon moved an amendment to
the address in reply to the queens
speech in Parliament, declaring that
the local government bill would be I'M
satisfactory to ireland. The amend
ment was rejected after debate.
Count Inouye, japanese minister of
finance, is reported to have in view the
raising of loan in the United States
OF from 1OO,OOO,O0O to 15O0OO,0OO yen
through the fundamentally of Mr.
Dun, ex-United States minister. ~
1t is estimated that no fewer shan
$4,000 persons, of whom 10000 were
lpilgrims, were present Sunday, in
Rome, at the celebration of mass by
the pope in honor of past and coming
anniversaries jointly of his first
mass, his election and coronation.
A Guatemala dispatch says the kill
ing of President Barrios was to
avenge the death of Signor Don Juan
Aparicio, who was killed by gov
eminent soldier while prisoner, and
by whom Barrios assassin was
formerly employed.
| Tt is announced that Russia has
abandoned the candidature of Prince
of Crete and will not allow any in
crease in the number of Turkish troops
in Crete or be party to any coercion
of the Cretans.
From 300 to 400 reindeer above the
requirements of the United States gov
eminent having been purchased, but
unpaid for, by Lieutenant d. B.
Devose, U. S. A., to be used by the
Yukon relief expeditions, are detained
at Christiania until the lieutenant fur
nishes security to the amount of 3d.
900 crowns.