Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31
CABLE CULLINGS.

DreyfuS court martial opens Aug. {
A woman was hanged in England.
The kaiser visited Howard Gould on
his yacht.
Tobacco is a drug in the market al
Havana.
A state of siege exists in San Sal
vador.
Lessening majorities are weakening
the Salisbury ministry.
Cecil Rhodes said there would be no
war over the Transvaal.
The industrial outlook in Jamaica is
said to be brighter than ever before.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender,
has left Venice, ostensibly for Austria.
A storm in Chile has caused great
damage to railways, bridges and crops.
There was an eruption Of Mount
Etna, Sicily, and an earthquake in
Italy.
A. G. Peck, late of Cohoes, N. Y,
bought the Mickross estates, lake of
Killarney
Cuban business men favor the con-
tinuance of American military rule for
an indefinite period.
1t is stated that Emperor Nicholas
will meet Emperor William at Wies-
baden, on August Is.
Arbitration or an appeal to arms to
settle the Alaskan dispute is all that
is left, Canada's premier said.
Advices from China indicate that the
perennial outbreaks against the foreign
element are again taking place.
Lord and Lady Curzon have become
very popular at Simla, India, where
they are spending the summer.
Nine men were killed and four in
jured by an explosion on the British
torpedo boat destroyer Bul1fnch in the
Solent.
Joseph Chamberlain thinks that the
notifications in the Transvaal fran
chise law might be made the basis Of
a settlement.
Sir Thomas Upton has chartered an
S,000-ton steamer and intends to take
900 guests to America to see the Amer
ica's cup races.
Glasgow university conferred the
honorary degree of doctor of laws upon
Sir Henry Irving, who, on the occasion,
was given an ovation.
The Temps believes the United States
will grant France a reduction of 20
per cent. in existing duties and the ia
vored nation treatment.
George J. Goschen, in the house of
commons, said Great Britain's policy
was still to maintain a fleet equal to
I, ~ o+e e ri
STA.
One of the boilers of the Austrian
torpedo boat Adler exploded while the
vessel was in the Adriatic sea, killing
lieutenant and four members of the
crew.
Harry Plunkett Green, the we'll
known baritone, and Gwendolyne,
daughter of Sir Herbert Parry, director
of the Royal College of Music, were
married.
The body of the czarowitch arrived
at Moscow. After the metropolitan
vladimir had celebrated a requiem
mass, the funeral train started on it's
way to st. Petersburg.
More concessions to the English
have been made by the Transvaal
sons of outlanders are to become nat
uralized at the age of 16 and to obtain
the franchise five years thereafter.
The Western Electric Cable compa-
ny's establishment at Woolwich was
burned. The loss is 925O,0O0. An
American plant, recently fitted up at
the works, was totally destroyed.
An accident to the German empress
was more serious than at first stated.
One of the bones in the lower part OF
her majesty's leg was broken. Com
plete recovery can scarcely be expected
before six weeks.
The colonial office announces that
the bubonic plague has spread from
Hong Kong and Mauritius to Reunion
There were Sc cases at Mauritius dur
ing the week ending July 20, of which
! 20 resulted fatally
The Popolo Romano, referring to the
recent lynching of Italians at Tallu-
given assurances that it will prosecute
| vigorously all who were concerned III
the commission of the crime.
A Pretoria correspondent says thai
the outlanders have been given to I'm.
derstand that no abatement of the de
mands made by Sir Alfred Miner
governor of Cope Colony, will be &C
ceptable to the imperial authorities.
In the house of commons, discussing
the ship building vote, George J. Go
schen, first lord of the admiralty, sai(
that there had been no change in the
policy of foreign governments and 81
there was nothing to induce the Brit
ish government to change theirs
which was to maintain equality will
the fleets of Russia and France, il
whose programs, however, he saw NJ
menace to England.