Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-07

and boys occur in many parts of Ger
many.
J. C. Flynn, NJ. P, was prevented
by 200 police from addressing an Irish
meeting.
A Paris court decided that ex-
position authorizes cannot arrest ci-
garet smokers.
Six persons were killed and forty
injured by the collapse of a bridge at
the Paris exposition.
Paris is threatened with the closing
of all laundries, as 5000 washerwomen
are already on a strike.
| Berlin may use telephonograph, en-
aiding telephone messages to be re-
corded during a subscribers absence.
The French government refuses
Cardinal Richard permission to visit
the show to bless the Catholic exhibits.
Queen Victoria left Ireland amid an
enthusiastic farewell reached Holy
head, whence she proceeded to Wind
| sOr.
| King Christian of Denmark accepted
| the resignation of the Horring cabi-
net and appointed new rightist min
istry.
The revival of Charlotte Corday at
Odeon caused the French government
to adopt extraordinary military pre-
| cautions.
| American contributions to aid starv-
ing India will reach $3,500,000 Eng
land has contributed less than one
third as much.
The passage of the German naval
bill is assured, centrists having con- !
sented The cost is to be paid by
stamp taxes.
The prince of Wales in a public let
ter acknowledges the sympathy and
congratulations on his recent escape
/ from assassination.
| H. w. Wilson, military expert. de-
clares that no European navy has as
great proportion of obsolete equip
ment as the British.
Louis Klopsch, publisher of the
Christian Herald of New York, sailed
from London to India to investigate
the famine conditions.
Chill has decided to force an issue
with Peru by asserting permanent
sovereignty over the provinces of
Tacna and africa
A movement is afoot among the
| Manchester conservatives. to nominate
Winston Spencer Churchill war cor
respondent, for parliament.
German popular opinion regards the
annexation of southern Brazil, set
tied chiefly by Germans, as inevitable
/ The Brazilian press is suspicious
Canadian preferential tariff favoring
/ Great Britain against the United
States is further increased Similar
moves have not hurt American trade.
At the city of Mexico, Miss Laura
Mariscal, the youngest daughter OF
Vice President Mariscal, was married
to her cousin, Alonzo Mariscal Pima.
The queen made the mayors of Dub
lin and Belfast baronets of equal rank
with the lord mayor of London and
the mayors of Cork and Londonderry
knights.
Socialists in the Brussels chamber
declared King Leopold responsible for
the Congo state massacres, but the
i government was upheld by a ma
jority.
On the queens birthday the Wind
sor board of education will send two
delegates to Manila with message of
sympathy to the Filipinos from $500
Canadian children.
At Naples the national tuberculosis
conference was opened. DR.. Bachelli
delivered the inauguration speech and
a delegate from each country repre-
sented at the congress followed
The crown prince will represent
Italy at a meeting of kaisers in Ber-
lin, and will insist that the dreibund
must have a more commercial char
acter. Humbert refused to attend, be-
cause Franz Josef had not returned his
visit made in 1881.
/ Sir John Bridge, former police mag
/ istrate of London, is dead. He was
| born in 1924; was educated at Trinity
college, Oxford; was called to the bar
in 1850, and was appointed a police
magistrate at the Bow street police
station in 1872 and was chief police
magistrate for London until 1889. In
1890, he received the honor of knight
| hood.
Fire destroyed Hull, Que, and burn
ed over s10,0OO,OOO worth of property
in Ottawa, killed at least ten people, =
rendered $4,000 homeless, destroyed
every mill, factory, and business house
on both sides Of the river, and all
telephones, street cars and electric
! lights. Several fires started stimuli
taneous1y and pro-boer sympathizers
are suspected to arson Troops guarded
government buildings.
TONE or THE MARKER.