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

FOREIGN.
new premier, Sitsuntak, has been
appointed in COrea.
The duchess Of Marlborough is
awaiting maternity again.
The uprising of the "Maroons" in
Jamaica is spreading rapidly.
Disorders growing out of the Drey-
flls case occur in France.
The Southern Cross has sailed
from England in quest of the south
pole.
Fifty Americans were killed in a
fight with Turks at Alashgerd, Ar
menia.
The car of Russia went to Copen-
hagen to attend the funeral of the
queen of Denmark.
1t is reported that the powers pre-
scented to the sultan an ultimatum on
the Cretan question.
Captain Marchand, who commands
the French force at Fashoda on the
Nile, has been made a major.
Kang-Yuwei the Chinese reformer
whom the dowager empress seeks to
imprison, has been arrested at Bahan,
Japan.
An unknown man has been arrested
at Orsova on the charge of completely
in a plot to assassinate the king of
Roumania.
Three laborers convicted of plot
ting against the emperor of Austrias
life have been sentenced to penal
servitude.
All of the great powers, with the ex-
ception of Germany, have agreed to
participate in the international dis
armament conference.
Negotiations between Chilli and Ar
gentina over the boundary question
have come to a stand still, and the
peace prospects are not so bright.
1t is rumored that Dreyfus has al
ready been transferred from the Use
de Diable and awaits a steamer to
bring him to a French or an Algerian
port.
At Cork an orderly demonstration
took place upon the laying of the
foundation stone of monument to
the Irish revolutionists of 1890, 1903,
1S48 and 1867.
The emperor of China, it is semi
officially announced, committed sui
eide, but was probably murdered. The
prime cause of the emperor's de-
thronement was his European clothes.
! Lord Mayor Davies paid a visit of
ceremony to the American peace COM
missioners at London for the purpose,
he said, of testifying ''to the good will
and affection of the people of London
to the United States
A dispatch from Cape Town says
Gen. Kitchener, has cabled to Cecil
Rhodes, that he has established post
southwark of Fashoda and wants to
know when the British forces in
southern Africa will move northward.
The British consul at Hong Kong
las been instructed to protect the
family of the Cantonese reform lead
er. Kang- Yuwei, who is on his way to
Hong Kong on the steamer Ballarat.
! The Empress has condemned Kang-
! Yuwei.
! Prohibition was carried by $4,000
majority in Canada. Premier Laurier
will have on the government. cit is
the function of constitutional govern
ment to listen to the voice of the peo-
ple," he says.
! The latest advices from Japan bring
the news of the death of Rev. Thad-
dous F. Freeman, chaplain of the
United States steamship Baltimore at
Nagasaki. Freeman committed sui
eide while in a state of mental de-
preston consequent upon failing
health.
! The Italian government has issued
formal invitations to the antianar-
chist congress, the time and place for
holding which will be decided here
after. The movement for this con-
gress was started by the recent muir
der of the empress of Austria by an
Italian.
AS the result of representations
made by the Hamburg-American
steamship line, the German foreign
office intends to invite the govern
ments of all maritime nations to come
to an agreement to legally compel
steamers to follow such trans-Atlan-
tic line routes as will avoid collision.
It is reported that Russia has Of
fered the dowager empress of China
the services of 10000 troops from Port