Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-11
FOREIGN.

S. H. H. Clark, the railway maginate,
died at Asneville N. c.
Rev. W. w. Thoburn, missionary
bishop of India, is i'll at Cincinnati.
DR.. w. R. Harper and the czar talked
with each other for half an hour.
Guards for the foreign legations have
started from Tientsin to Picking.
Christians in the vicinity of Pekin
are flocking to the city for safety.
A party of thirty foreigners was
attacked by Boxers" and four killed,
Russia has II, 900 troops on nine war
ships massed at the river entrance to
Pekin.
The report that Lord Salisbury con-
templated retiring from political life is
denied.
Sir Edwin Arnold's son Julia will
fight extradition on an embezzlement
charge.
Sir Robert Peel's library, including
caricatures and autographs, will be
sold at auction.
China has stopped the advance of the
legation guards and foreign troops to-
ward Picking.
All but two of the 839 delegates to
the republican national convention
have been elected.
Palizzolo, the Malta chief, on trial
for the murder, is a candidate for
deputy in Sicily.
The French senate adopted the Drey-
fus case amnesty bill by an over
whelming majority.
Experiments at the University Of
Wurzburg proved that bacteria can be
killed by electricity.
The Vatican deposited in bank $775,-
900 received in Peters pence from
French and Austrains.
The first general illumination Of
the Paris exposition occurred. The
attendance was 100000.
General de Gallifet has resigned as
French minister Of war and has been
succeeded by General Andre.
A Swiss newspaper proposes that
Switzerland place herself under the
protection of the United States
Advices from Honolulu state that
June IA the United States consulate at
Honolulu will be closed for all time.
H. Jones, little stable boy, mount
ed on Diamond Jubilee, won the Derby
and $4,000 for the prince of Wales.
General Jose NJ Hernandez, the
Venezuelan revolutionary leader, has
been captured by government troops.
Domestic.
Democrats expect to elect Bryan by
carrying New York, New Jersey, Mary
land, and Kentucky, besides the states
he had in 1896.
Chicago admiralty lawyers oppose the
appointment of John r. Hazel as
federal judge at Buffalo on the ground
OF incompetence.
The Los Angeles, Cal, chamber Of
commerce has sent 81 900 to Bombay,
India, to eXpend in the relief of the
famine sufferers.
By the death of Thomas E. Miaco in
New York six theaters and a large
fortune are left to his 15-year-old
daughter Edna his sole heir.
Tho shah gave Russia the right to
construct railroad from ErWan to Tab
rig and opened Khorassan, his richest
province, to Russian trade.
The president has committed to 10
years the life sentence of Jefferson
Harrison for robbing mail car in
Alabama in 1898 and threathing to kill
the postal clerk.
I1ieut-Col. Webb G. Hayes, 31st
volunteer infantry, son of ex-President
Hayes, is no longer connected with the
army, his resignation having been
accepted by the president.
The monthly statement Of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness, May 81 1900, the debt less cash in
the treasury amounted to $1,122, sos, 811,
a decrease for the month of S2,193, 274
Dun's business review finds the
weeks total of defaulted liabilities by
failures unusually heavy. Bradstreet's
agency says financial Developments are
favorable and trade condition also
good.
Louis Klopsch declared thousands of
people are dying of famine in India
Vultures, dogs and jackals are devour-
ing the dead
On charge that he loves his step
daughter and other sensational allie
cations, Mrs. Eber Brock Ward has
sued her husband, millionaire and
brother of Princess De Chimay, for
divorce.
In a quarrel at Youngstown, O., Isv-
ing Johnson, colored, cut the throat of
Mrs. Ida Welcome, a white woman,
and slashed the face Of her 7-year-old
son. Johnson then cut his own throat.
He will probably recover. The woman
may die.