Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-10


| actress, is DEAD at London.
A strong feeling in favor of annexation
to the United States is developing in
Nicaragua.
Marconi believes his wireless system
of telegraphy will be used to span the
Atlantic ocean.
The Echo de Paris publishes a rumor
of plot to have the car succeeded by
Grand Duke Vladimir.
London is divided on the question
OF the publication Of Sunday morning
editions by the great dailies.
President Alonzo seems unable to
quell the uprisings in Bolivia, many of
his troops being discontinued.
Seven vessels were wrecked in the
last three days in the English channel,
entailing large losses Of life.
Emperor William sent a congratula-
tory telegram to CHANCELLOR Hohen-
lobe on the occasion Of his birthday.
Richard Chamberlain, brother of Jo-
seph Chamberlain, secretary of state
for the colonies, died in London yes
terday. LIZ
Norway is said to have issued an or.
der prohibiting Swedish. officers from
inspecting forts or witnessing the drill
or troops.
A debate on the expulsion of priest
from Belgium led to a violent scene
created by the socialists in the parlia-
ment at Brussels.
A T Mn ron1ind in 70
assistance for child which she asserts
was abandoned by sister of the Bar
oness de Buren,.
Rear-Adnliral Kautz wires that the
German consul in Samoa issued an in
cendiary proclamation which melted
Mataafa's followers.
Jamaicans fear that the forcing
through of the governments new tariff
bill will be followed by further at
tempts to subvert, popular liberty.
Baroness Hirsch, widow of the He
brew philanthropist, Baron Hirsch,
who died on April 81, 1896, at his es-
tate near Komern, Hungary, is dead.
The Madrid official Gazette publishes
a decree establishing a credit of 49,
$3.50 pesetas for the payment Of the
interest of the Cuban debt on April /.
President Faure's widow has sent
COW for the beautiful wreath sent by
the municipality to her husbands flu
neral.
The strike of the velvet weavers Of
Crefeld, Germany, which commenced
in January, has been adjusted by a
ployes.
A party of Germans who landed at
I-Chou were attacked by Chinese sol
diers and as a result German naval
force has been landed for the purpose
Of restoring order.
About 10 lives are believed to have
been lost by the wreck of the steamer
Stella, of the. London and Southwest
ern Railway company, on the Casquets,
near the coast of Attorney.
The chamber of indictments at An
coma, Italy, has decided that the an
archists accused of conspiracy at Alex
andria, Egypt, against Kaiser Wilhelm
are not guilty of that charge.
Chinese authorities have notified the
British consul that the whole fore
shore recently opened at Port Chung
Wan Tao is reserved for a Chinese
mining company. The British lega-
ton has entered protest.
The greatest clearance on record of
bonded tobacco has just been made in
Liverpool Not far short of a million
dollars was paid for duties, one firm
alone paying in one check $425,0 00
thus beating Lipton's $385,000 check
for tea.
Marquis Charles Philippe de Chen
nevieres, member of the Institute, di-
rector of the Academic des Beaux Arts
and chairman of the board of admins
tratiOn of the Paris exposition of 1873,
died at Paris yesterday in his seventy
ninth year.
The court of cessation at Rome de-
livered an opinion in the case of Isaac
and Samuel vs. Ernesto Cerruti, that
no court Of a nation can set aside the
decision of an international arbitra-
ton. An agreement by nations is
higher than that of any internal court.
Advices from Bolivia say that an
encounter is imminent between the
government troops under President
Alonzo and the federalists, or insur-
gents. The fighting will probably
take place between Oruru, where the
government reserves are stationed
and Coracolla, about 60 miles north
west of Oruru.
English tobacco manufacturers are
evidently convinced that the chancel-
lor of the exchequer, Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach, intends to meet the
deficit by increasing the duty on to-
bacco. At Liverpool, the center of the
trade. last weeks delivery of unman-
Ufactured tobacco from bond totalled
1891, 807 pounds, this transaction con-
shutting a record.
In the house of commons the pres
ident of the board Of trade Mr.. T. G.