Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-08-28
FOREIGN.

MAX NOTudu, Says Tie dcQuILIdl Ol
Dreyfus is not certain
Experts fear the introduction Of the
bubonic plague into London.
DR.. Lapponi, the pope's physician
says the pontiff's health is good.
Troops are being hurried from Cape
Town to the Transvaal frontier.
M. Guerin, besieged in Paris, said
he would resist to the death.
The political and commercial outlook
in Chile is considered to be rapidly i'm
proving.
The Transvaal republic suggests a
new basis of negotiation with Great
Britain.
The legislative council of western
Australia has passed bill enfranchis-
ing women.
Chinese brigands, thousands in num-
Der, are causing havoc over a wide
territory.
The English government is adopting
repressive measures against the Irish
United League.
President Diaz is gratifed at the
placing of the Mexican bonds in the
United States.
France is in dread of a repetition of
the horrors of st. Bartholomew day
400 years ago.
Fresh trouble Isl feared in Samoa.
Natives are boarding money to build
boats and buy arms.
The reply of the south African re-
public to the British proposals is re-
ported to be ready.
The Belgian chamber of deputies
adopted four Of the governments six
electoral proposals.
Crowds gathered in the streets Of
Rio and shouted for union between
Argentina and Brazil.
The president of Brazil gave ban
Argentina at Rio de Janeiro.
A Protestant celebration at London
berry, Ireland, led to severe fights be-
tween mobs and the police.
Maitre Labori was able to leave his
bed for three hours. Later he was
present at the court-martial.
An insane man named Glorot, who
said he shot M Labor, was arrested at
Dol, 20 miles from Rennes.
Three fresh cases of the bubonic
plague are reported from Oporto. They
are said to be of a mild character.
Maitre Labor, junior counsel of
Dreyfus, was shot from ambush and
severely wounded at Rennes, France.
Humbert Herkemer, the artist, has
been appointed foreign knight of the
Order of Merit for Art and Sciences.
President Campos Sales of Brazil
made speech at Rio which is believed
to forecast a union of Latin republics.
Two disastrous fires in ST. Peters
burg destroyed military and other
property to the value of millions of
rubles.
Paul Deroulede and number of his
associates we're arrested in and near
Paris on charge Of conspiring against
the government.
Colonel Picquart General Roget, M.
Bertullus and Nine. Henry testified be-
fore the Dreyfus court-martial at
Rennes, France.
The steamer Clutch arrived at Van
couver, B. c., with 103 Klondikers.
Purser Turner reports 100000 of
treasure on board.
Experiments made at the Fasteur in
stitute in London identify the Oporto
epidemic microbes as those of the
bubonic plague.
Lieut-Col. Lobe died suddenly in
Rennes. He was i'm charge of the
gendarmes at the Dreyfus trial. There
are hints of suicide.
Lord Denbigh says if dissolution of
the British empire is desired it will be
only necessary for the government to
weaken in south Africa.
1t is reported that the French gov
eminent has decided to arrest Gen.
MERCER and that the case against
Dreyfus will be withdrawn.
The WelIman Arctic expedition re-
turned to Tromsoe, Norway. Mr..
Wellman was crippled by fall while
leading an exploring party.
Sir Charles Upper, in an interview
in London, charges that the United
States has purposely delayed settle
ment of the Alaska dispute.
The refusal of the Rennes court
martial to adjourn is taken to indicate
that the members have already made
up their minds against Dreyfus.
Emperor William made a speech at
the unwilling of a monument at st.
Privat, praising both the French and
German soldiers who fell in battle
there.
Lieutenants Klopp and Mounier of