Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-01
FOREIGN.

Sweden has Sl75, $4,000 invested in
railroads.
Austria will abolish the stamp tax
on newspapers.
The Britons and beers agreed upon
Christmas truce.
italian parliament adjourned unti
Jan. 81 in a huff
The French military attache at Ber-
lin was recalled.
London is to spend $15,OOO,O00 on
new drainage works.
Americans buy 100000 worth of
millinery in Paris yearly.
A man was arrested for trying
speak to King Humbert
Hungary is alarmed by the whole
sale immigration to America.
The French parliament is likely to
ratify Franco American trade treaty.
The Austrian emperor will give the
pope $4,000 in honor of the holy year.
The Italian press expects no redress
from America for the Tallula lynch
| ing.
A British steamer is wrecked off
Cape Hatteras, twenty-one lives being
lost
The new glass roof on the Syden-
ham Crystal Palace in England cost
100000
The Bagdad railway deal completed
The sultan is to receive Sc, 900 600 in
advance.
The Franco-American reciprocity
treaty was submitted to the chamber of
deputies.
Trees and shrubs are being planted
along the Suez Canal to keep the sand
from drifting.
Michael Davitt and several other
leaders object to the proposed National
Irish council.
Gar issued a rescript generating
Finance Minister De Witte from re-
cent charges.
The pope inaugurated the holy year
by opening the holy door of st. Peters
cathedral
Deroulede was sentenced to two
years Imprisonment for insults to the
French government.
The nucleus of fund has been cell
lected to transfer the body of Chopin
from Paris to Cracow.
mously elected rear commodore of the
Royal Ulster Yacht club. N
German schools celebrated closing OF
the nineteenth century in obedience to
kaiser's wishes. Scientists laugh.
Publishers in Finland lose from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year due to sup
preston of books by the government
Germany made war to exclude
Austria from the empire" and does not
want it now, said the Cologne Gazette.
The New South Wales assembly has
passed bill authorizing the issuing Of
treasury bills to the amount of G4,
100000
Reports have been received frem
Venezuela to the effect that the revo-
luton is spreading throughout the re-
public.
Upward of forty school children
were drowned in an accident at FIRE.
bingham, near the French border in
Brussels
Or. Won Wittek has been appointed
president of the Austrian cabinet coun-
Gil He was formerly minister of
railways.
Benjamin Francis Conn Constelloe,
n A., the chairman of the government
committee of the London county coun-
Gil, is dead.
1t is feared that Mr.. Chamberlain.
secretary for the colonies meditates
overturning Jamaica's autonomous
government.
st. Etienne coal miners have struck,
There is a coal famine in France and
the price is so high the closing of fac
tories is feared.
Partisan authorities are trying to de-
wise regulations for automo-
bile traffic which will be fair to all
parties concerned.
The German government has bougA
Schliemann's palace in Athens, at,
$50, 900, for the use of the German
Archaeological society.
The quarrel between Jew and anti
Semitic in the Vienna city council end
ed in free fight, the sitting adjourn
ing in disorder.
China has just received cargo of
sewing machines from America, and
Chinese women are said to be taking
kindly to the innovation.
Tarantulas are being raised in
Australia for their webs which are
being planted along the Suez Canal to
keep the sand from drifting.
At st. Petersburg the central agri-
cultural bureau has published report
showing an increase of 20 per cent. in
winter cereals over 1898.
Communication with Japan, north OF
Osaka, is interrupted by storm and it's
restoration is uncertain. This includes
Yokohama, Toxic and Hakodadi.
Near Tangier a native, who stole
donkey worth s125, was taken before
the Chief of the Quar-, and as punish
ment he was tied to tree while his
eyes were burned out with a redhot
iron.
Emperor William has at last con-.
frmed the election of Herr Kirschner