Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-09-12
FOREIGN.

liam's adjutant, is dead
The value of the annual plum crop
in France is 100000.
There is a marked improvement in
the general health of Santiago
Great Britain has 294 torpedo
boats and torpedo boat-destroyers
The queen of Denmark has suffered
a hemorrhage, and it is feared a crisis
is imminent.
Vienna has cabman who has been
fined twenty times for trying to bring
bicyclists to grief.
Public opinion in France is chang
ing at a rapid rate to demand for
a retrial of the Dreyfus case
General Gomez has arrived near Ho-
jas, Cuba, where he will review a
large force of the insurgents.
Queen Wilhelmina, who has Just
assembled the throne of Holland, will
retain the present caeinet.
Two earthquake shocks occurred at
Santiago de Cuba and caused consid-
crab e alarm, but not much damage.
General Brooke has reached San
Juan to attend the sessions of the
American and Spanish commissioners.
Prof Koch is prosecuting his study
of malaria in the Milan hospitals, and
intends to spend several months in
italy.
While Berlin has only one-nine-
teenth of the population of Prussia, it
pays nearly one-sixth OF the income
tax
1t is reported that the religious or
ders in the Philippines are selling
their property to a Hong Kong syn
dictate.
Senior Leon y Castillo, Spanish am
bassador to France, has declined to
serve on the Spanish peace commits
sion.
The Popolo Romo says the Italian
government has decided to second the
czar's peace conference proposal in
every way.
The present population of Bordeaux,
France, is $4,000, of whom 1854 are
in receipt of assistance from charita-
bic societies.
E. D. McConky, formerly a railroad
contractor, who is said to have failed
in Baltimore in 1877, is a bankrupt
in London.
The American commissioners at
Quebec heard representatives of lead
ing American interests who desire a
market in Canada.
Officials of the German foreign Of
flee deny the report that Great Britain
and Germany have formed an offensive
and defensive alliance.
The agricultural and commercfd;
bodies of the British West Indies have
again demanded the abolition of Brit
ish sugar bounties.
M. Cavaignac, French minister of
war, has resigned from the cabinet on
account of differences with his col
leagues over the Dreyfus case.
Matias Romero, Mexican minister
to the United States, who has been
i'll in the City Of Mexico from merry GUS
trouble and malaria, is improving.
The Cuban leaders, Cebreco, Lacret
and Pedro Perez, have zen ordered
by General Gomez to put themselves
under General Lawton's command
Gen. Borin has been appointed act
ing military governor Of Paris, in sue
cessicn to Gen. Zurlinden, who has
accepted the portfolio of minister of
war
A delegation of wealthy Filipinos
visited Consul Williams at Hong
Kong and urged that the Philippine
islands be annexed to the United
States.
Of 1000 housewives in Almelo. H0l-
land, who were consulted as regards
the desirability of abolishing night
work for bakers, all but ten favored
the measure.
General Kitche~ er defeated the der
vi hes in the Soudan and has entered
Omdurman. The British loss is esti-
mated at go and the dervishes lost
tEousands in killed and wounded.
A fund is being raised to rebuild
Lower Brixham (England) church in
memory of the Rev. Henry Francis
Lyle, the author CT the hymn "Abide