Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-03
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The volcano OF helOot, IN Java, IS III
and many natives are report
ed killed.
It is feared that the lives of many
men were lost in a coal mine explosion
at Senghenydd, Wales.
The kaiser issued stringent orders
to exclude reporters from al meetings
at which he is to speak.
General Peraza, leader Of the last
uprising against the Venezuelan gov
eminent, has been captured.
Sir Alfred Hickman protested in
parliament against continued pur-
chases of American locomotives.
Six French warships now threaten
the capital of Morocco, and a division
of troops may be sent from Marseilles
to Algiers.
Rev. Francis Paget, D. D., dean of
Christ church, has been appointed
bishop of oxford in succession to Rev.
William Stubs.
An electrically propelled submarine
boat, designed by Lieutenant Kol-
BASKETS, of the Russian navy, is being
built at Kronstadt.
The postal affair has been finally
settled, and the foreign mail bags will
again be intrusted to the Turkish
travelling postofices.
The German government has made
successful experiments with the sys-
tenn of rapid telegraph invented by the
late Prof. Henry A. Rowland Of Balti-
more.
Commercial intercourse on the Rus
sia-German frontier, between Russian
and Greman Jews, has been rendered
much more difficult by recent Russian
DEGREES.
The Paris transportation companies
are to be consolidated into one con-
Germ, which will include the omnibus,
tramw ways, metropolitan, and under
ground lines.
Geatano Bresci, the assassin of King
Humbert, committed suicide by
strangling in the penitentiary OF Santo|
Stefano, Italy The wife of Bresei
says he was murdered.
Under dynastic law, the young
grand duke of Saxe-W eimar, Charles
Auguste, has compelled Prince Bern
hard of Saxe-Weimar and his wife to
leave the United States.
Carnegie's proposal to give 100000
900 to Scotch colleges is criticised by
Scotchmen because of the conditions
attached to it. The plans of Mr..
Carnegie may be revised
The village Of Aurenza, Italy, has
been partly destroyed by an ava
lanche. The number fatalities is
not yet known, but already fifteen
corpses have been recovered.
King Edward VII had a narrow
escape while on the yacht shamrocs
II, which, with the Shamrock was
wrecked while preparing for race off
Brambies buoy, isle Of Wight.
The second chamber of the Swedish
diet adopted-198 to 119-an amend
ment of the army bill substituting
eight months compulsory service fyrl
the governments proposal of year.
Signor Marconi announces that he
has successfully installed his system
of wireless telegraphy in a steam
motor car, and that he is able to COM
municate with central base while
travelling.
Italy has demanded satisfaction
from Turkey for the death of Decrocis,
the Italian who was summarily shot by
the sultan's order on suspicion Of
being an emissary of the young
Turkish party.
Tho DaI1cc io IN hox
informed that there will be large
immigration this spring of Ruthenian
farmers to the United States, and that
5000 will pass through Hamburg in
the next few days.
The affection from which Henrik
Ibsen, the dramatist and poet, has re
Gently been suffering is now diagnosed
as partial paralysis of the larynx.
His voice is practically gone. but his
general health is improving.
DR.. Won Leuthold, Emperor Will
Jams physician, recently asserted
when discussing the Weiland attack
that variation of a quarter of an inch
in the location of the wound would
have cost the kaiser his life
The population of the outer ring o.
the suburbs Of London is 2O42,75A,
as against 1,450,489 in 1891, 950,957 in
1881 and 631,831 in 1871. The total
population of Greater London, includ. |
ing the outer ring of suburbs, is now
6,578.780.
1t is reported that inhabitants Of
Blagovestchensk, Vladivostok and the
Amur valley have been crazed by re-
ported discoveries of gold in northern
Manchuria and are rushing to the SUD-
posed arriferous district, which has
been dubbed yellow Russia
The census Of Scotland shows 4 i
total population of 4,471,9 57, or an in
crease since the last census, taken
ten years ago, of 446,319. For the first
time. Scotland's population exceeds
The population Of Glasgow
is 76O,423, an increase of 142,271, AMI
that of Edinburgh, 316,479, an increase
of 51,6S3.
At Rome King Victor Emmanuel