Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-09
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
Foreign.

Foreign.
Mormon missionaries have begun
an active campaign in Japan.
Count Won Waldersee has a quarrel
with the kaiser and may resign.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung reports
the massacre of six Christians at Ku-
ia, China.
Disagreements among the Jamaica
planters over the sale of fruit have
led to riots.
Mail advices from Brazil indicate
that the government is on the verge
of a grave crisis.
Lady Smith, wife of the English
Master of the Rolls. was found drown
ed in a Scotch river.
It is stated that General Gribski,
who directed the Amur massacres, has
been exiled to Kamchatka.
London Pail Mall Gazette states
that Lord Salisbury will resign the
premiership after the kings corona
ton.
The engagement is announced in
London of Miss Helen, daughter of
Levi P. Morton, to Count Bosom de
Perigord.
The belief grows in English official
circles that it is the policy of France
and Russia to weaken Turkey by
little pin pickings."
The Berliner Tageblatt denies
authoritatively that the late Dowager
Empress Frederick was married to
Baron Won Seckendorff.
Sultan Abdul Hamid retaliated on
France by withdrawing concessions
from and imposing taxes on French
religious orders in Syria.
A dispatch from Copenhagen %
London says the Danish minister has
decided to accept the United States
Offer of $4,000 900 for the Danish West
Indies.
The visit of the car to France is
regarded as a blow to the royalist pre-
tenders to the French throne, as it is
a recognition of the government OF
the republic.
Commander Sargent, of the United
States gunboat Machias, wired from
Colon, saying that quiet reigns on the
isthmus Of Panama and nc American
interests are threatened.
John Redmond announces that he
has concluded a preliminary contract
with Augustus ST. Gaudens, the Irish
American sculptor, for the Parnell
monument at cost of $4,000.
M. Constans has left Constantinople
because of the sultan's failure to pay
the $2,4O0,000 promised, and diplo-
matte relations between France and
Turkey have been partially broken
off.
The proposed meeting of the car
and the kaiser will, it is understood,
partake largely of a political charac-
ter. Each sovereign will be &C
companieI by his chief political adj
wiser.
Several Philadelphians have an in
terest in company recently organ
lied to build a railroad across Mexico.
Sonora Beard, the promoter, has been
promised the necessary concessions
by President Diaz.
The London Express states that
France and Russia, working in secret,
will have built and ready for sea in
November, go submarine boats. All
the boats will be powerful and of the
newest type England has only con-
structed five experimental submarine
boats.
A revolutionary force of 1000 men
has pushed it's way over the border
from Colombia into Venezuela This
force is to aid in the overthrow of
President Castro. When, it is said,
his downfall is accomplished, a
similar plan will be followed in
Nicaragua. Colombia's revolution
has already lasted nearly two years.
1t is estimted that from $4,000 co
10000 lives already have been sacri-
feed and the end is not yet, as the
smouldering embers Of revolt are COM
ing into fame in a. dozen sections
simultaneously and the liberals 10
not hesitate to announce that they are
preparing to deal final blow.