Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-13
CABLE CULLINGS.

The Austrian relchsrath has been
prorogued.
Anti-Dreyfus riots occurred in Mar
settles and Algeria.
Dreyfus will not be released, whether
innocent or guilty.
Novelist Stevenson's home in Samoa
was looted by natives.
The duke of Marlborough may be ap-
pointed viceroy Of Ireland.
Later advices from Samoa show that
the situation is still critical.
Germany hopes for a friendly settle
ment of the Samoan difficulties.
The new Irish league is becoming a
significant power in British politics.
Mexico will send delegates to the
coming military convention at Tampa,
Fla.
In Berlin the Influenza is epidemic
and many of the public officials are
suffering.
Death came to the princess Of Bull
garia as a release from an intolerable
position.
Colon merchants, alarmed by strik-
ers' threats, asked stronger military
protection.
The British government has infor-
nation that Mckinley contemplates
tariff revision.
The reichstag at Berlin has passed
the third reading Of the motion to re-
peal the anti-Jesuit law.
British officials are smiling at Co
lonial Secretary Chamberlain's obedi-
ence to his American wife.
The mo popery' agitation in Eng
land reaches an acute stage and has
become uppermost in politics.
Business on the isthmus Of Panama
has been Frustrated 10y the strike.
Ships cannot load or unload.
The whole village of Nagyprobose,
in the Liptau district Of Hungary, was
burned. Many lives were lost.
Poultney Bigelow in a letter on the
Samoan situation, ntimates that Ger
many is seeking full sway there.
The duke of Teck's hopeless mental
state threatens another strain of in
sanity for the British succession.
discovered substance which will sus-
tain life in a Theoretically sealed space.
The British consul at Colon cable0
Aor a warship to protect his country
men in danger on account of the
strike. -va4
An ex-lieutenant. OF French Infantry
has been arrested in Paris for Illicit
correspondence with a foreign govern
ment, involving military secrets.
M. Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who re-
signed from the French court Of cassa-
ton, charges that judges of the court
decided. to declare Dreyfus innocent
before examining the documents in the
case. @
The Chinese foreign Office has agreed
to open as treaty port the city of
Manning in the province Of Kuang-
See, on the river Flu, near the Tonquin
frontier, which the British consider
necessary for the exploitation Of the
west river.
David j. Brewer, associate justice of
the United States court, who has been
to Paris for the purpose Of attending
the meeting of the Venezuelan arfitra-
ton tribunal, of which he is member,
was given a seat on the bench of the
first appeal court in London.
A company to lay a direct cable be-
tween Germany and the United States
now seems definitely assured. The
capital, 100000 marks, has been fur
nished by a number Of banks and pri-
vate capitalists. The German govern
ment is understood to be favoring this
At Berlin considerable dissatisfac-
ton is expressed at the reports from
the United States, of the practice, I'M
DER the instruction recently Issued
from the treasury department, of close
ly interrogating passengers arriving
from abroad at New York and other
seaboard ports. Several members Of
the reichstag will interpellate the gov
eminent regarding the matter during
the coming week.