Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-01-21
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is dead.
The Danish minister at Paris denies
that King Christian is to abdicate.
Citizens of Barcelona held mass
meeting to protest against bull fights.
London doctors declared the So
called salt elixir revival of an old
hoax.
1t is said Lord Salisbury has agreed
to cede to Russia the railway to Shan
Hal Kwan.
Invitation to the powers to transfer
the negotiations from Pekin to Wash
ington has been withdrawn.
Revolutionary Colomblans, aided by
Venezuelians, have been defeated in
a bloody battle in Columbia.
George Johnson, worth $5,000,000,
died after living thirty years as g.
hermit on his Scottish estate.
According to a dispatch received at
London the condition of Empress
Frederick is again causing anxiety.
Janet Perie, an American actress at
Paris exposition, fought duel with
French swordsman, wounding him.
Count Won Buelow, in the Prussian
diet, advocated the canal bill and a
tarln as remedies for agrarian
troubles.
The Russian minister of finance
says Russia and America have
agreed all through the Chinese
trouble
Ii Hung Chang and Prince Ching,
under Geographic edict from imperial
court, signed the preliminary note of
powers.
All of the 1O2 persons who had
been helpless four days on the wreck
ed steamer Russie, off Faraman,
France, have been rescued.
A Copenhagen dispatch says the
negotiations for the sale of the Danish
West Indies to the United States seem
to be approaching settlement.
Miss Condit Smith, who went
through the siege of Pekin tells the
empress dowager sent poisoned food
and flowers to the legation prisoners.
According to dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Mail from Shanghai, Capt.
Chu, who participated in the Chuchou
massacres, has been sentenced to
death.
The pope approved the Vatican bud
get for 1901 amounting to $1,700,000
Contributions to Peters pence were
$5,0000,000; total contributions
$6,0OO,OOO
A Montreal paper warns England to
cease insulting French-Canadians de-
claring the British government holds
Canada Though tie people of Quebec
province.
The few rebels who were outside
the town of Panama have been driven
back to -1e bush by the government.
troops. There is no extensive rev.
dictionary movement.
It is rumored that Sir William
Butler will be appointed lieutenant
general commanding troops in Canada,
in succession to Lord William Fred
erick Ernest Seymour.
Lord Dufferin was hooted at meet
ing of the suspended London and
Globe Finance corporation, of which
he was president, but he made a
speech explaining his recent course.
Lord Salisbury called the British
cabinet to meet Jan. Is to arrange a
program for parliament. A settle
ment with France over Newfoundland
is likely, with a free hand in Morocco
as England's concession.
M. Dewitte the Russian minister of
finance to London, will be created a
count at the Russian new year, accord
ing to dispatch from ST. Petersburg
to the London Daily Express, in rec
ognition of his services, to the empire.
The rumor is stated that Lord Cur
zon is to resign the viceroyalty of
India, owing to the failing health of
Lady Curzon, with whom the climate
of India does not agree. Should Cur
zon resign, it is thought Lord Cadogan
will be his successor, or will, at any
rate, be offered the position upon the
termination Of his reign in Ireland.
The Dominican government has
issued decree against the collection
of duties by the San Domingo I'M
provement company of New York
There is intense excitement, and the
anti-American feeling is strong. This
action is due to the protest of the
Belgian bondholders. The duties now
will be collected for treasury needs.