Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-06-20

anti-Japanese riots at Shashi will in
volve them with Japan.
Moonshiners recently precipitAted a
fight with the British governor of the
island of Montserrat and troops had
to be sent from Antigua.
Armies on the frontier Of Costa
RIGA and Nicaragua have. been largely
disbanded, as those two countries
have settled their differences.
Sir Charles Mitchell, governor gen.
eral of Straits settlements, says that
women are being tortured in Singa-
pore for religious purposes.
The steamship wrecked in st.
Mary's Bay, N F., was identified as
the Arbela, but the fate of her pas
sengers and crew is unknown.
Sir Charles Stewart Scott, British
minister at Copenhagen, has been ap-
pointed British ambassador to Russia
in succession to Sir Nicholas O'Conor.
Earnest T. Hooley, the London
bankrupt, declared in an interview
he had been the prey of financial pub
LEGATIONS, which have taken his
profits.
By a new convention with China,
Great Britain gains an extension of the
boundaries of Hong-Kong for about
200 square miles, including part Of
Mrs Bay
Steamers which have arrived at
Liverpool from Sierra Leone, Africa,
report that a thousand persons were
killed in the recent uprising in that
district.
1t is stated in dispatches from Pam
anna that a revolution is gaining
Roadway in Venezuela, several re-
verses having been suffered by the
government forces.
The Niger boundary dispute, in
which English papers and politicians
have seen war cloud is practically
settled. A convention covering all
disputes is ready for signature.
British Minister Chamberlain ex-
plains why an alliance with the
United States is desired by England
and says he withdraws no part of his
previous speech on this subject
The Japanese diet was reopened but
after a stormy discussion the govern
ment's proposals for land taxation
were rejected amid great uproar and
the diet will probably be dissolved
An inspector of customs and four Of
ficers left Victoria on the gunboat Tar
tar to move the British custom post
at Tagish to Bennett, where the boun-
dairy, as claimed by Canada, is situated.
President Heureaux of Santo Dom
lingo is endeavoring to have General
Jimines, leader of the recent insurg-
ent expedition, arrested as a pirate
for an unlawful use of the British
steamer Fanita
The development of better feeling be-
tween England and the United States
was debated in the house of commons,
Sir Charles Dixie crediting Sir Julian
Pauncefote with it, and Mr. Curzon
speaking for Lord Salisbury
In the bankruptcy court of London
statement of Sir Robert Peel, for
whose estate a receiver was appointed
Feb % last, was presented, showing
that the liabilities amounted to
$1,593,050, and that the assets were
NIL
Joseph Chamberlain stated in the
house of commons that his speech adj
vocating an alliance had the support
of Lord Salisbury. He also declared
that an alliance of England and the
United States would be a splendid
thing for both countries.
Earnest Terah Hooley, England's
greatest promoter, was declared a
bankrupt in London, after dazzling
Europe for three years with his extra
ordinary and daring ventures. He
was formerly lace manufacturer. He
bought sixty ancient English es-
tates and committed many breaches
of good breeding, it is asserted, all
much to the disgust of the nobility
and aristocracy. He was once enter
tanned at the table of the prince of
Wales, at which England cried aloud.