Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-12-18
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
OUR WAR.

Gen. Joubert, the boer commander,
is under physicians care.
The lord mayor of Dublin protested
against the TransVaal war.
Brig. Gen. Wood was nominated as
major general of volunteers.
The heaviest bombardment of the
siege occurred at Ladysmith.
Lieutenant Brumby, Dewey's flag
officer, is dying of malarial fever.
Cronje's army is divided in two
wings with Methuen's men between
them.
Sixty-one new naval vessels are I'M
der construction or in the hands of de-
signers.
The Smelling by the beers at Lady
smith is becoming disagreeably eff
fective.
Again it is reported that Gen. Wood
will succeed Gen. Brooke as governor
of Cuba.
Commander E. P. Wood, who COM
manded the Petrol during the battle
of Manila, died.
1t is thought probable that Aguin-
aldo has reached CaVite province in
his sinuous fight.
A son of President Yedlard of the
Michigan Central railroad was killed
in the Philippines.
Native volunteers organized for the
defense of East Griqualand. The
Basutos are quiet.
Mafeking garrison sends out an ar
mored train daily and the beers shell
the town with slight damage.
The commander of AguinaldO's body
guard was among the killed in bat
tie with Gen. Youngs forces.
Gen. Butler and staff reached the
front and are supposed to have COM
pleted arrangements to advance to the
relief Of Ladysmith.
English say the beers besieging
Ladysmith are respondent because
the thirty-two days siege is without
result. Discussions are reported.
Madrid-An official dispatch from
Manila says that 229 Spaniards who
were formerly prisoners in the hands
of the Filipinos have arrived there.
The Filipinos deserted Olangapo
and Subig on Grants approach. Ma
rines from the Baltimore and Oregon
occupied Olangapo as naval station.
Members of the fifth British lancers
boast of wholesale slaughter of
Glands Laagte of beers who threw
down their guns and begged for mercy.
Spaniards who have been prisoners
of Philippine insurgents, it is report
ed, will claim damages from America
on the ground that Admiral Dewey
turned them over to Aguinaldo.
The war in the Transvaal will be
ended in less than ninety days, accord
ing to the opinion of Col. w. F. Cody
("Buffalo Bill''), whose experience in
the American Indian wars was long
and varied.
shington-Another contribution
to the naval literature of the Spanish
war has been published. It is a his
tory by Admiral Cervera of the fleet
under his command, which was de-
stroyed by the American squadron.
Washington-Secre Root has
made an order appropriating $4,000
from the revenues of the island of
Cuba to defray the expenses of an ex-
hibit of the products, manufactures
and industries of that island in the
Paris exposition next year.
Neutrality-suspicious. of the results of
the Investigations made in the case
of the troopship Tartar is the stop
page of the pay of Major A. Rafter,
surgeon twentieth Kansas volunteers,
until certain accounts for the provi-
sioning of sick soldiers on board the
transport are settled.
The London Times prints letter
from an American citizen who left
johannesburg because he was liable
to be impressed, and who had learned
that the United States consul was I'M
able to protect him. He complains
bitterly that the American flag was
not represented in Pretoria, that his
passport was not recognized, and that
his position was practically unbear-
able.