Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-29
FOREIGN.

The Argentine revolution is ended.
Joseph Pohl, chemist, died in Vienna.
The report of Osman Pasha's death is
denied.
The German reichstag adjourns next
week
A Scotch expedition will explore
south polar regions.
The Panama canal commission has
800 surveyors at work
The Russian press fears Japan's in
fiuence in eastern Asia.
The sultan of Tangier ceded NIGGA
dore, off Morocco, to France.
The French council of war has made
out elaborate mobilization plans.
Ras Mangascia's rebellion against
Menelek in Abyssinia was defeated.
Admiral Sir Henry Fairfax, British
commander-in-chief at Plymouth, died.
Russia's entire Black sea fleet was
modified in ten days as an expert
ment.
A statue to Gordon is being erected
outside of the sirdar's palace at Khar-
tum.
r. Rostand, the French dramatic
author, is i'll with congestion of the
lungs.
China's nowager empress has deco
rated officials who have shown marked
hostility to foreigners
Turkey increased her import duties
after having denied such a purpose.
The powers will protest.
Cardinal l.. Di Canossa, bishop of We
roma and once candidate for pope,
died at Verona, Italy.
lt~is reported that President Romano
is making arrangements to liberate all
political prisoners in Peru.
Parnell's sister declared the queens
shamrock order an insult to Ireland.
Parnell's brother thinks it gracious.
The famine expenditure in India for
1S99-1900 is e2,055,000, and that for
10000 is estimated at e3,335,O00
The United States canal commission
has left Colon for Costa Rica and will
proceed from the republic to New York
1t is beginning to be feared in Lon
don that violence will be done Queen
Victoria on her coming visit to Ireland
Twentyfour peasants were drowned
by the capsizlng of boat in which they
We're crossing the Danube river from
kaloosa to Pays.
The bubonic plague is fast increas-
ing. In Bengal. 4,725 deaths occurred
last week. These included 744 in Cal
cutta and 2,O44 in Patna.
Bulgaria and Roumania having dis
agreed over an island in the Danube,
the former country has decided to sub
nit the dispute to a board of arbitra-
ton.
Toronto carpenters are asking for an
increase of wages from 221a cents per
hour to q cents per hour, to go into
effect on May l. The master builders
are considering it.
\ Constantinople correspondent an
nounees that the sultan has yielded lin
all essential particulars to the Rus
sian demands respecting railway con-
cessions in Asia Minor
The India officers annual financial
statement shows surplus for 1899 900l
of & 2,553,0 and an estimated surplus
for l900-1901 of e160.000. The famine
expenditure for 1S99-19OO worked out
at G2,055,000. 1t is estimated that the
famine expenditure for 1900-1901 will
be eS,S35, 900
rhe Kreut Zeitung, in remarkable
article dealing with the south African
war, says: THE war has demonstrated
the unanimlty of feeling among the
English and ii has also shown in a |
most amazing way the strength of the
imperialistic idea, having done much
in welding the colonies into a vertable
empire"
In the palace of justice at Paris all
attempt was made to murder the pre-
siding judge of the fifth court by al
druggist named Bardln, who had just
lost a suit. Bardln fired three shots
4; the Judge, the bullets sfazing hist
head. Municipal guards threw them
selves on Bardin and removed him to
a cell. while the judge, with perfect
coolness said to counsel: You can
continue, maitre; 1t is nothing"