Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-31

low book in which possession Of the
Nile town is claimed on the ground
of priority.
President Hereux of San Domingo
is at Nassau, N. P, to confer with an
American commission headed by
Smith M Weed.
William Redford, ParnelllIe mem
Der, addressing home rule meeting
said: 1.-THE sympathies of Irishmen
are with France
The persistent rains for the past
month in Manitoba have almost to-
tally ruined the wheat crop in the
Canadian province.
Senior Gamazo, minister of public
works, has resigned from the Span
ish cabinet because of dissatisfaction
with peace negotiations.
A Paris evening paper announces
that Capt. Dreyfus is now confined in
the fortress at Mont Valerien, to
which he was secretly brought.
The German bark satisfaction"
was sunk during the recent gales in
the North sea. The captain, his wife
and crew of nine we're lost.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in a speech
at North Shields, England, intimated
that Great Britain would fight if
rance insisted on holding Fashoda.
The Peruvian senate is now discuss
ing bill, already approved by the
chamber of deputies, placing import
duties on rice, lard and crude
petroleum.
Maj Esterhazy, who has hitherto
not denied the London Observers as
sertion of the Dreyfus bordereau, will
sue the Observer for libel because of
that statement
Major Marchand's report of his ex-
petition to Fashoda was received in
Paris. It is said that Great Britain
will remove Marchand and his men,
unless France does so promptly.
Snow has fallen throughout Eu-
ropean Russia except in the Crimea
and Caucasus. Navigation Of the
Volga has been partially suspended,
but the Baltic ports are still open.
Fifteen thousand Turkish troops
we're reviewed in Constantinople by
the emperor and empress of Germany
and the sultan. Afterward the sui
tan gave a grand farewell banquet.
An inquest in the case of Harold
Frederic, the author, who died at
Henley, England, showed that he took
the Christian science treatment in his
last illness and sent away his physi-
clans.
The North German Gazette says
that Baron Won Rotenham, German
minister to Sweden, has been chosen
to represent Germany at the Vatican,
in succession to Baron Won Bulow,
who was recalled.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Observer says that an edict
issued on the occasion Of the birth
day of the empress found redress
medals of bronze, silver and gold
for men and women rendering dis
tinguished services under the Red
Cross.
The steamer San Nicolas, which
left Manila Saturday flying the Ameri-
can flag, was compelled to return by
Spanish gunboat, whose commander
offered as a reason for his action
that the crew consisted of PHILIPPINES,
who might smuggle contraband
articles.
In view of the approaching visit Of
the emperor and empress of Germany
to Beyroot palace, the police are pre-
venting all the Italian workmen from
landing and Greeks and Armenians
are closely watched. An Italian, who
is believed to be an anarchist, is re-
ported to have landed at port on the
Syrian coast.
Surgeon-Maj. Boyd, Sd Kentucky
regiment, just returned from Porto
Rico, thinks this country will never
realize it's expectations concerning
that country. He says it will only be
valuable for the customs that Uncle
Sam may derive from it. The country
is exceedingly fertile but nearly all
of it is owned by landlords now liv-
ing in Spain.
The outbreak of bubonic plague at
Vienna due to experiments in Prof.
Nothnagles laboratory in the cult
walton Of the plague bacillus, has
spread terror at the Austrian capital.
Five cases in aduIIion to that of the
late DR.. Barische, assistant of the