Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30

Germany, it is reported, has decided
to adhere strictly to treaty rights in
her course on the Samoan trouble.
The first elections in Ireland I'M
der the new local government act re-
suited in great triumphs for the la
Dor party.
Dreyfus is to be ordered to Paris,
the Soir reports, to face the officer
who said he confessed and to copy the
bordereOu with EsterhaZy.
At Managua, Nicaragua, President
Zelayas will replace Gen. J. P. Reyes,
governor general of the Atlantic coast
department, by Gen. Aurelo Estrada.
The London Times says: Owing to
the immense mass of documents put
in the Venezuelan arbitration SEES
sions are expected to last for several
months.
The rebellion in the province of
An Houi (Nagan-Hoi, China), is
spreading rapidly and it is feared that
all the central provinces of China will
become involved.
M. Delcasse. foreign minister, ad-
dressing the French chamber of depu-
ties, said the secret documents in the
Dreyfus case contained no letter from
Dreyfus to a foreign sovereign.
The Rome Tribuna announces that
the Italian cruisers Elba and Etna are
shortly going to China, but that the
rumor of the Italian governments in
tention to seize a Chinese post is
premature.
The battleship Oregon, it lis re-
ported, has been ordered to Samoa to
protect American interests there. The
British cruiser Taurange has started
from Wellington, New Zealand, for
the same place.
Few people in Russia are very hope
full of the results of the czars con-
ference for the limitation of arma-
ments. Certainly the military ele-
ment is not overjoyed, although bet
ter pay might be the result of re-
trenchment in war expenditures.
The recent English strikes eff
fectually prevented the placing of or
ders for rails, grinders and rolling
stock for railway building in India
and it is only too probable that in the
future the orders will go, to a large
extent, to the United States, particu-
larly for locomotives
DR.. Won Helleben, German ambassa-
dor to the United States, will be in
structed to include in the pending
negotiations for a commercial treaty
the recent Interpretation of the tariff
appraisement of cotton velves, eau de
cologne and chocolate, under the rul-
ing of the United States supreme court
of Dec 27 last, on the ground that
the courts decision is unfair to Ger
man exporters, since the goods af-
fected are made in bond with duty
free imported raw material.
According to the Soir of Paris, the
court of cessation intends to con-
clude the inquiry by confronting Capt.
Lebron-Renault, who was in charge of
Dreyfus at the time of his degrada-
ton, with Dreyfus himself. The neces-
sity for this conformation is advanced
as a pretext to Justify the return of
Dreyfus to Paris. The court also
proposes, according to the Soir, to
have the bordereau dictated success
lively to Dreyfus and Esterhazy, whose
handwriting will then be compared
with the original document.
At Colon, Colombia, the strike of
dock laborers is fast assuming seri-
Gus aspect A batch of SO Panama
dockmen arrived and stones and re-
volvers were fired at the train as it
neared Colon. A hundred more are
expected in the course of the next II
hours and the ship owners are
anxiously awaiting their arrival
as business is seriously de-
layed. Soldiers are guarding the
warehouses where the dockcnen now
on hand are at work and preventing
communication with the outside.
AS a result of the claim for damages
made upon the Peruvian government
by Mr.. Gottfried, an American citizen,
through the United States minister to
Peru, Irving Dudley, for outrages in
fiicted upon himself and members of
his family by band of Peruvian mar
auders it is asserted, on reliable
authority, that some of the outlaws
have been captured and are now in
Jail, at Huamachuco. The govern
ment, it also appears, has issued or
ders to the local authorities to have
the others pursued with energy and
captured.
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