Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-10

try place there.
Lady Anne Coventry, third daughter
of the Earl of Coventry, was married
to Prince Dhuleep Singh, son Of the
late Maharajah of Lahore. Opposition
to the marriage by the lady's family
was mainly overcome by the interven-
ton of the prince of Wales.
1t is announced that China has
yielded to the demand of Baron Heyk-
ing, the German ambassador at Pekin,
for the dismissal of the commandant
of the Chinese garrison at Tsao Chow,
province of Shan Tung, because of the
use of threatening language to the
German missionaries there.
Empress Augusta Victoria's latest
birthday present from her husband is
a bracelet made of the seven miniatures
of her children, painted on ivory and
set in jewels. From the middle picture
hangs the portrait of the kaiser in a
heart-shaped medallion.
A woman Of San Casciano, near
Florence, who at "a had murdered her
husband, has just been set free after
forty years imprisonment at hard Ia
Dor. Her life sentence was COM
muted owing to her having never re-
ceived black mark in that time.
Countess Virma Hungonnay, the
only woman physician in Buda-Pesth,
recently made an application for ad-
mission to the medical society of the
Hungarian capital. After q stormy
session the society refused her APP
plication. The countess-dOctOr in
tends to renew her application next
year, and expects to have it granted.
The steamship companies at Lon
don are now much interested IN the
presence in England Of Rev. DR..
Sheldon Jackson and Lieutenant d.
B. Devore, special agents OF the
United States government to secure
reindeer and Laplanders to be used for
forwarding supplies to the miners IN
the Yukon valley.
A number of Spanish generals have
been interviewed as to Weyler's con-
duct protesting against Mckinley
alleged reflections on Spain. General
DomingueZ says: eff Mckinley has
Teen guilty OF 1nsolence, it is the
governments place to protest" Gen
eral Ochando approved of Weyler's
action.
The stories regarding the poor
health of Prince Bismarck appear to
be greatly exaggerated. The ex-
chancellor passed New Years day
with his sons and other friends and
did not retire till 1870 o'clock Sunday
morning, which would seem to in
dictate that this condition is not criti-
cal.
The Empress of Austria has taken a
dislike to the magnificent Villa
Achilleion, which she had built at such
a tremendous cost in Corfu; and all
the furniture and objects Of art which
adorned it, including the gigantic
statue of the dying Achilles, have been
removed to the imperial palace at
Vienna.
Mrs. Creighton, the wife of the
bishop of London, is one of the most
public-spirited women of England,
and is much interested in whatever
concerns workingwomen. She oc-
cupied the chair at recent meeting
in the interests of the women in the
clothing trades, and made strong
address in their behalf.
has of late years used for purposes of
presentation is a more elaborate pro-
duction, beautifully printed and bound.
Since his boyhood the pope has been
fond of writing Latin verse, and,
though Virgil serves as his chief
model, he has pretty knack for ele-
giacs after the style of Ovid or Catul-
lus.
DR.. Tristram, chancellor of the
diocese Of Canterbury, at a co
tory court held in ST. Paul's, London,
the other day, ordered that the crosses,
the picture of the Virgin Mary and the
crucifxes in the church of st. Mark,
Marylebone, be removed, for the rea-
son that they had been used for super
stitious purposes.
DR.. Haase, a noted Prussian der
matOlOgist, announces a new treat
ment and cure of cancer. In VircrOW' S
: Archives of Medicine" he reports that
he injects alcohol about the growth.
} His experience, he thinks, encourages
5 him to assume that his experiments
bid fair to promise perfect cure and
, exemption from temperance of the
dread disease.
Miss Hamilton, M. D., the English
doctor at the court of the ameer OF
Afghanistan, says that few of the chief
ladies in Cabul can read and write, but
; hardly single one outside the capital
can do so. 1t is considered a great
accomplishment, and the princesses
and good many little girls are now
being taught. But they make little
if any, use of their knowledge when
they have acquired it. The sultana,
who is the daughter # the mullah, or
priest, can write fairly we'll, and she
can read the Koran in Arabic but