Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-08-25

been successfully sent from Poldohu,
Cornwall, to Kronstadt, 1,4OO miles.
Venezuelan revolutionists claim to
have $4,000 troops in the field.
Miss Gladys Deacon denies a be-
/ trothal with Prince Frederick William.
It is said King Edward has promised
to visit Ireland not later than Febru-
airy.
| King Edward and Queen Alexandra
reviewed the Indian troops now in
| London
The woman franchise bill passed
| both houses of the New South Wales
! legislature.
Advices from China and Japan show
an epidemic of cholera, with heavy
mortality.
Intense feeling exists in New
Foundland over the Reid arbitration
difficulty.
Poultney Bigelow is in a hospital
in Austria, on account of a severe
bicycle accident.
Colombia is sending heavy enforce
ments against the revolutionists on
the Atlantic coast.
The German emperor's guest at the
fall maneuvers will include many
distinguished personages.
Peasants in Finisterre, France, are
making desperate resistance to the
closing of the religious schools.
Westminster abbey was crowded
with Londoners, who paid sixpence to
see the coronation decorations.
A wastcoat of chain armor is said
to have saved Prince Obolensky's
life when he was fired upon at Khar-
kow.
The Colombian gunboat Boyaca,
with two generals and 800 soldiers,
was captured by revolutionists near
Panama.
Evelyn B. BALDWIN, the explorer,
swore to charges at Tromsoe, Norway,
against Captain Johannsen of the ship
| America.
Emperor William, in a message to
Prince Regent Luitpold, rebuked the
Bavarian diet for refusing to vote
money for art.
Mile. Wanda De Boneza, an actress
of the Coincide franchise, Paris, is
dead as the result of an operation for
appendicitis.
The last three of the unauthorized
Catholic schools in France were fore
IDLY closed by the government after
rioting and scenes of disorder.
Gems. De Wet, Botha, and Delarey
visited King Edward on board the
royal yacht Victoria and Albert and
| had a brief interview with him.
1t is an open secret that Sir Wilfrid
/ Laurier exerted a decisive influence
in keeping the coolies out of what he
calls the vortex of European arma-
mentS."
st. Petersburg reports that Japa-
nese have a fully equipped battery on
the island of Kothnesan, and Korean
officials sent to investigate were
driven away.
Judge Caron in Quebec released B.
D. Greene and John F. Gaynor, con-
tractors, who are wanted in the United
States for alleged frauds against the
Federal government.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to do
nate $150,000 for the establishment OF
free Libraries in the borough of Mary
lebone, London, on condition that the
borough provide for their main
tenance.
The government of Paraguay has
formally recognized the republic of
Cuba and has accepted the United
States consul at Asuncion, the cap
ital, as the representative of Cuba in
paraguay.
During a torchlight procession at
Antwerp in connection with the COM
munal fetes a car representing winter
| caught fire and one of the woman oc-
cUpants was burned to death. Four
other women on the car sustained in
juries.
Baron Won Watershausen argues
that the central European states will
be compelled to erect common tariff
barrier against the encroachments Of
American industries, and believes that
| political union of Germany, Austria,
| Switzerland, Belgium and Holland af-
| fords ready relief.
Under an agreement with the Cana
| dian government, the Allan Line, with
the Elder-Dempster and Furness lines,
has arranged a regular service be-
tween Canada and south Africa. An
Allan Line steamer will inaugurate the
! service, sailing from Montreal in
| October.
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