Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-12-16

of the Board of Trade and wealthy
He came to this country from Eng
land in the '40's, and as young man
old Milwaukee and Mississippi read
Foreign.
Business men of London protested
against high telephone rates.
A clerk who robbed Liverpool
bank of nearly $1,OO0OOO lost it in
racetrack gambling.
A convict at Pentonville prison
England, got on the roof and defieG
the guards 80 hours.
DR.. James Braithwaite, in the Lon
don Lancet, argues that salt is a
prime cause of cancer.
The battleship Iowa and the gun
boat Machias have been ordered 20
leave the isthmus of Panama
General Alban is preparing to re-
capture TumacG, which is held by
5000 Colombian revolutionists
The Chinese government is seek
ing to have Tientsin restored by the
allies to Chinese administration.
A dispatch from Sofia to the Lon
don Mail said that Miss Stones re-
lease by the brigands is imminent.
The Peruvian chamber of deputies
sanctioned the gold standard law,
which had already passed the senate.
The domestic troubles of Queen
Wilhelmina arouse the interest of
Europe, but it is doubted if the facts
are known.
The $4,000 prize offered by Alfred
Nobel, the Swedish inventory was
awarded to NJ Armand Sully-Prud-
homme of Paris.
The pan-American congress ap-
proved the plan for mutual recogni-
ton Of professional degrees con
ferred by the different countries.
Lieutenant Colonel Schebiok, mill
tary' agent of the Russian embassy
at Washington, has been appointed
to the Russian embassy at Berlin.
The immigration restriction bill,
persons who cannot speak a Euro
pean language, has passed the com
monwealth senate.
There were riots by the unempIoy-
ed in Lyons, France Several gen
darmes were injured The mounted
police cleared the streets. Thirty
arrests were made.
A dispatch to London paper says
that thousands of the starving un-
employed are rioting daily at Prague,
Bohemia, and strong forces of police
are preserving order there.
Herr Speck, a leader Of the CEN
trist party in the German reichstag,
declared in favor Of the proposed
tariff. He said America cannot Go
without the German market.
The organ of the Russian minister
Of finance, the Wjestnik Finanzoff,
threatens reprisals If the German
reichstag passes the tariff bill now
being debated before that body.
3. Deffeback. manager of the Con
verse Ranch company, Williston, N
D., and party are in the city looking
for hundreds of stolen horses which,
it is believed, were sold in Manitoba.
William Marconi the inventor of
wireless telegraphy, arrived at St
Johns, N. F., to conduct experiments.
The French government will send
commissioners to the United States
to investigate the trusts.
The White Star Line steamship
company has endowed the charities
of Liverpool and Belfast to the ex
tent of 100000, In memory Of the
late Thomas Henry Ismay, founder
of the line, who died Nov. 23, 1899.
A dispatch to the London Chronicle
from Rome says that Monsignor
Sbarretti, formerly archbishop of
Havana, and who has been appointed
apostolic delegate to the Philippine
islands, will shortly leave Rome for
Manila
A Vienna dispatch from Con-
stantinople says the Austro-Hun-
garian vice consul at Smyrna, Herr
Halter, was fired at and wounded
November 20 by a customs guard at
tached to the tobacco excise adj
ministration
During the tariff debate in the
reichstag DR.. Paache of Halle uni
versity sounded the strongest warn
ing concerning the American peril
which has yet been uttered He
said: Peculiarly grave dangers
threaten us from America. Against
these we must put ourselves in a
state of defense"
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