Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-16

Sydney. y. S. W. was recently visited
by a hot wave.
Almost 100000 persons are receiving
famine relief in India
The prospects for the Australian wheat
| crop are most favorable
a great avalanche has done eonsi6era-
| bic damage at Glacier. b. g.
Great Britain estimates that the wac
| will cost at least $300000,0
4 bloody civil war is raging among thu,
natives of kerewani. New Gunea.
IN attempt was made 70 assassinate
| all the missionaries in the New Hebridcs.
Smallpox has broken ont among Tie
Indians of the Colyillc reservation, Wash
ington.
-Four hundred farmer boys are on the
auxiliary cruiser Dixie for cruise rouud
the world.
The Liberty Alliance, a pro-Boer or
ganization. has been formed in Chicago
with 500 members.
While playing near fire in Lockwood,
Tenn, a little son OF Mr. and Mrs. Con
nor OF Chicago burned TO death.
The London papers say that the health
Of Florence Nightingale is so enfeebled
thar she cannot live much longer.
The plague was reported to be raging
in New Caledonia. The governments OF,
Australia have taken elaborate prccau
tions.
Charlton r. Lewis Of New York, who
has investigated the prisons OF Cuba.
says they are in deplorably Disgrace
full condition.
Under a liberal Interpretation Of The
peace treaty we viii transport TO Spain
al Spanish soldiers and their families IN
the Philippines.
The two great material conquests
which mark the nineteenth century arc
The building Of the Pacific railroads ana
the digging 81 the Suez canal.
Lord Bennett. evangelist, who married
Miss Leonora van Marter, OF Tacoma
Wash. succeeds 10 the title and estate
Of the late British Earl Of Tankergille
John d. Sargent who was at one time
suspected OF killing Robert Ray Hamil-
ton in Wyoming. aud who has since been
charged with wife murder, IS insane
Experiments recently made in Europe
with forty-nine different kinds OF Ger.
man. French lad Austrian sugar beet
seeds show that German seed IS by far
the best.
The discovery Of the operations Of a
band OF counterfcits in Cuba is leading
government officials to consider lbe adj
visibility OF applying the United States
laws against counterfeiting to the isl
and
Michael Buczny Of New York. who is
charged with the murder Of Miss Regfna
Klein. was proved 10 have no control
over his body--a strange form Of insan-
it's.
The old Longfellow mansion. Portland,
Me-. was burned. The place was Dai!t
sy alexander LourfcIlow. brother OF he
pcei. and the latter passed many SUM
Iners there.
When the Beers modified their forces
it IS said that they only called out the
FIRST lcyy. OF men between Is and 81
some 5000 10 all. The second levy
would consist Of those betMeen IS and
80 The third levy wosld sweep in eY-
eryboay else capable Of beaaing arms
Italians lave added 10 their system Of
coast defensc batteries OF mDrtars sim.
lar 10 those used AZ Saniy Hook Oath
three. instead Of four. morfars are placp,1
ia a pit. The Indirect plungiag ore of
the mortars IL considered 10 he 81 great
Waite in the defense Of dxe,I points
agaiIss an attack by sea
Attorney General Campbell i os Inc
opinion rhat the State Of Colorado.
through Cor. Thomas az trustee for the
peoplc. ough: 70 tegin working some og
the supposed gold mines that exist On
The niineral lands hat have epse into
the possession Of ~ State land bs7rd.
TO be @sed Tor the beaeft o. he school
fund.