Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-20
CABLE CULLINGS.

man army is to be increased.
Gen. Count Caprivi was buried on
the family estate at Skyren, Prussia.
The Japanese government has prac-
tically succeeded in quelling the For
mosa rebellion.
The retreat Of President Alonzo of
Bolivia, before the victorious insur-
gent army is confirmed
The suit of William Waldorf Astor
against the London Mail was se1tled
by the giving Of an apology.
The criminal section Of the French
court of cessation has concluded it's
inquiry into the Dreyfus trial.
POlitico-commercial relations be-
tween Germany and the United States
will be discussed in the reichstag.
William Laird, of the shipbuilding
firm which built the confederate war
vessel Alabama, died at Liverpool.
The Mexican senate has confirmed
the appointment of Manuel Aspiroz
as ambassador to the United States.
At the opening of the British parlia-
ment references to an Anglo-Ameri-
can alliance were greeted with en-
thusiasm.
The English house of commons re-
jected by a large majority a proposal
to cure alleged evils in the church OF
England.
It is announced in the British house
of commons that Great Britain's policy
in China is to come to terms with
competitors.
Herr Florens Henry Gottfried Won
Bockum- Doiffs, of the Prussian cham
Der Of deputies, died in his ninety
seventh year.
The Manitoba hotel at Winnipeg
and some railroad property were de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss Of
about 100000.
G. A. Spottiswoode, head of the
famous London firm of Eyre &
Spottiswoode, parliamentary and gen.
eral printers, died.
DR.. Raffel, president of the munich
pal council of Apia, Samoa, is on his
way to Berlin with dispatches bearing
on the recent troubles there.
The bodies of three supposed aero
nauts, who, it is suspected, are Herr
Andree and his two companions, have
been found in Northern Siberia.
| The subscriptions to the Imperial
and Prussian loans Of 100000 marks
and 125 million marks respectively,
foot up roundly four billion marks.
Lydia Shippy, formerly ballet
dancer, claims to be the wife OF Wis
count Hinton, the organ grinder
claimant to the earldom of Poulett.
The governor of Bluefelds has taken
arms against the Nicaraguan govern
ment. The rising is confined to that
region. toreign interests are menaced.
Dreyfus has refused to reply to
written interrogations of the court
of cessation on the ground that his
answers are inaccurately transmitted
to Paris.
Lord Berresford says England, the
United States, Germany and Japan
intend to prevent the partition OF
China and maintain an open door in
the Orient.
A score of French deputies have
addressed a letter to the government
rebelling against the proposed change
| in the court of cessation, and cabi-
net crisis is expected
The American Methodist missionary
house in Hiromae district, China, was
set on fire by a Chinese mob. Rev.
r. P. Alexander, in charge of the mis-
sion, was seriously and his wife ia
| tally burned.
Alexander Mcdonald, the gold king
of the Klondike," reputed to be worth
G25 100000 to 93O,O00,000 married
Miss Margaret Chisholm, daughter of
Superintendent Chisholm Of the
Thames water police.
Prince Napoleon Charles Gregorie
Jacques Philippe Bonaparte, third
son of Prince Lucien Bonaparte,
Prince of Canine and chief of the
older branch of the Bonaparte family,
| is dead at Rome, aged SO.
Archbishop Ireland, who is in Rome,
is said to be receiving extremely
cordial treatment at the vatican and to
be winning new advocates of his views
in favor of the so-called American
policy" for the Catholic church.
The Hamburg-American liner Bull
garia is reported to be drifting help
lessly 800 miles from the Azores.
twenty-five passengers and a crew of
seventy-five are on board of her.
Twenty of her passengers were landed
at Ponta del Gada by the Steamer
Weehawken.
There has been in circulation at
Honolulu a petition to congress asking
that a settlement be granted to Prin-
cess Kaiulani The young lady is in
receipt of a grant of $4,000 cash an
nually from the republic Of Hawaii.
It is presumed that this will cease
upon the change of laws.