Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-02-16
FOREIGN.

Paris has report that vessel has
been sent to DEVILS island to transport
Dreyfus to France.
William LAIRD of the famous ship
building firm of Laird Brce. at Birken-
head, England, is dead.
The Manitoba hotel at Winnipeg
was burned. 1t was the largest hotel
in tho Canadian west.
Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha
is dead. He had been suffering from
chronic cerebral trouble.
Count Won Caprivi, former chancel-
lor of the German empire, died at
Skiren, near Frankfort
Nine. Cosima Wagner, widow of
the great composer, Is dangerously
sick with pneumonia at Vienna.
Sir Henry Campbell was
chosen leader of the liberals to sue
coed Sir William Vernon Harcourt.
The Spanish cortes is to be immedi-
| ately conyoked. Premier Sagasta ex-
poets majority of 30 for the treaty.
The Filipinos are in full retreat ana
the Americans in conplete control
Government forces have subdued The
Colorados, who recently revolted
against Senior Gustos, provincial presi-
dent of Uruguay.
The January report of the British
board of trade shows increases Of
1897, 800 pounds in imports and 1,155.-
800 pounds exports.
Rev. Julian Robinson of London,
England, died, aged 80 years. During
the prince of Wales tour OF India in
1876 he acted as the princes private
chaplain.
The Filipinos are found to be armed
with the latest pattern of Mauser rifles.
Gen. Miller will take Iloilo and Gen.
Otis will move upon Malalos, the in
surgent capital.
The appeal in England for 100000
pounds (s11,500.000) in connection with
the Chinese imperial railway five per
cent. gold loan has been a phenomenal
success. 1t was applied for five times
over.
The Madrid government has issued a
red book on the war with the United
States. 1t Is bulky volume of 522
pages, but its contents are documents
and communications already made
public and now have only historical in
terest.
At Havana the United States gun
boat Nashville. bearing the body of
the late Gen. Calixto Garcia. arrived.
The remains were received by the city
council and will lie in the session room
of the council on public view, with
guard of Cuban soldiers.
William Pritchard Morgan, NJ p,
just from China. where he represented
English capitalists acting in partner
ship with an American syndicate and
the Chinese authorities. confirms the
report Of his securing from China con-
cessions giving his associates control
of all mines and oil fields in the prov
ince of Szechuan.
The British steamer Bothnia, Capt
War;, chartered for use as a Spanish
transport, arrived at the Azores from
Cienfuegos, Cuba, on her way to Spain
with repatriated troops. Eight SOL
diers died during the voyage and So
were dangerously III when the steamer
arrived here. She has been subjected
to a rigorous quarantine.
At the opening of the German reich
stag the president OF that body, Count
Won Ballenstein, paid tribute to the
memory of the late Won Caprivi, the
former imperial chancellor. He said
that while as a statesman Caprlvi did
not attain the greatness Of his prede-
cessor prince Bismarck) nevertheless
he promoted the welfare of Germany
and was great in his answering de-
votion to duty, absolute attachment TO
the emperor and the fatherland and
the honorable chivalrous feeling with
which he was animated"