Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-06
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Polar Explorer Andree's body is re
ported found.
It is rumoreu that Abdur Rahman
Khan, ameer of Afghanistan, is dead.
Hurricanes and Iandslides have
caused heavy loss of life in New
Guinea.
A. j. Balfour introduced in the
house of commons the bill dividing
London into Is municipalities
The government Of Chill has deter
mined not to intervene, as suggested,
| in the Bolivian revolution.
President Loubet's pacific inaugural
address was received with applause in
the French chamber of deputies.
The Khalifa has left Sher Keila, in
Kordofan, with a considerable force,
and is moving toward Omdurman.
The funeral of President Faure in
Paris was an imposing demonstration.
There was no hos.-Ae demonstration Of
note.
The Soir, of. PARIS, states that the
Dreyfus verdict will be submitted next
week and that it will annul Dreyfus'
conviction.
The French chamber decided to
prosecute Deputies Deroulede and Ha-
bert, who sought to have troops march
on the Elysee."
Paul Deroulede and other leading
anti-Dreyfusites who attempted to Gre
ate disorder at the Faure funeral were
arrested at Paris.
Baron Paul Julius Reuter-, who es-
tablished the first organization for col
Letting and transmitting telegraph
news, died at Nice.
Emil Welt, the distinguished Swiss
statesman, who was six times elected
president of the Swiss confederation,
died in his seventy-fourth year.
The people of Bermuda gave an ova-
ton to Admiral Sampson and the Off
GERS and men Of the warships New
York and Indiana, who are now there
Millions of acres of crops are report
ed to have been destroyed in Australia
by drought, and bush fires are raging
over thousands of miles Of territory
Thirty Americans, under Col. Aus
burn, formerly of Roosevelt's rough
riders, are serving in the army of Pro-
visional President Reyes in Nicara-
qua.
Word has been received at Bombay
that the sultan of Oman not only re-
pudiated his treaty with France in re-
Spouse to British threats, but handed
over the treaty to the British admiral.
Sir John Struthers, M. D., LII. D.,
vice president of the Royal College OF
Surgeons, Edinburgh, and examiner IN
anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons,
is dead in London. He was born in
1928.
General Gaetan de Grimaudet de
Rochebouet, who was premier and
minister of war under Marshal Mac
Mahon, second president of the third
republic of France, died in his eighty
sixth year.
At Victoria, B. c., the government
has passed to second reading a bill to
send a judge of the supreme court to
Atlin with absolute authority to settle
all disputes arising out of the location
OF claims by the original locaters I'M
der the Nor .44west Territories laws in
stead Of British Columbia laws.
The parliamentary secretary of the
foreign office, VIM. st. John Brodrick,
in the house Of commons, replying to
question on the subject said that in
certain questions the Anglo-American
joint commission had made progress
towards their settlement, and he add
ed, her majesty's government hoped
that further negotiations would resolve
the questions still in dispute.
The agitation in the Chilean papers
in favor of the intervention of Chill
in the conflict now in progress in Be-
livia between PRESIDENT Alonzo's
forces and the feoeralists, or insur-
gents, is calming down. The govern
ment of Chilli has resolved to remain
neutral, and troops are distributed on
the frontier to prevent an outbreak
The Germans received by the semi
official TEMPO confirm the report ca
bled from Rio Janiero to the effect that
serious disturbances may occur on the
Bolivian frontier.