Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03
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King Otto is dying. He is totally par
alyzed.
An English company is forming cor
ner in camphor.
A joint note demands of China the sup
preston of the Boxers.
A holy war has been proclaimed il
Morocco and Algeria.
The Gar is constructing an arsenal a
the Corean port Masampho.
The Liverpool School of Tropical Dis
eases is studying typhoid fever.
London scientists have discovered TWEEN
ty-three new lights in the aurora.
Queen Wilhelmina is engaged to Prince
Bernhard Henry Of Saxe-Weimar,
The result of the recent French cleo
tons was in favor of the Republicans.
Emperor William has offered a prize
of $4,000 for the best war motor car.
Switzerland citizens make about $23,
100000 year from the entertainment
of tourists.
Ex-Queen Natalia has written her son
that she will never be reconciled with
Milan or with MIN.
Russia's great war debt has been ex,
plunged in less than eight years 1t was
964 100000 rubles.
The expenditures of the British Gov.
arnment at present are exceeding the rev.
enue by about 100000 week.
New periodicals to the number of 27e
were started in Great Britain last year.
In London at present there are 2,240
newspapers and miscellaneous publca.
tons.
sailed from Liverpool cot long ago to seek
homes in Canada. This makes over $500
Firms carried to Canada by one steam.
ship line within ten months.
Policemen on the streets Of Hamburg
Germany, have been instructed TO watch
street cars sharply, and if conductors are
found carrying more passengers than the
law allows a fine Of y cents is imposed.
The Swiss Chamber of Deputies has
made insurance against sickness and &C.
cident compulsory.
An application for official recognition
Of legate from the Pope has been mace
70 the Chinese Government.
Twenty-Five Of the nobility and ultra,
rich of Paris sat down TO a dinner pro
vided by Harry Kimball Thaw of Pitts
burg, whose father was an ex-mechanit
millionaire, who ate at stand-up lunch
counters. The cost Of each plate was
$500 With souvenirs and decorations
the dinner cost $1,000. Sousa's run band
played.
A new regulation in Vienna requires
telephone girls to wear a uniform while
on duty in order that the dust they bring
in may not interfere with the instru
ments.
Archbishop Corrigan Of New York has
been received by the Pope. He present
ed the Pope with an album containing
views of church ediices erected in his
diocese in the last decade.
Hamburg IS one Of the worlds markets
for animals, largely from Africa. Te
London comes much material Of the same
sort from Australia and New Zealand |
and many rare creatures are obtained |
from sailors who bring them from vari |
Gus parts Of the world.
SueZ canal receipts for the first quartel |
of 1900 were 81 200 900. against $1,000, |
600 in the same quarter Of 1899, and S4, |
235, 900 in 1893.
Sweden is suffering severely in the rG |
raj districts from a scarcity Of fodder |
due to the unusually short hay and oa
crops Of last season.
Some years ago telegraph cable wNi
laid in the bed Of the Amazon river t.
connect the various towns along tina /
stream with Para. The drift wood inter
fered with tie workings to such an ex
tent that il has been in use only a par
Of the time. A land line is now beinl
built, and $50 miles have been eompiet
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