Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-09-29

railroad will be restored to China
Oct 10.
Officials Of the Imperial Tobacco
company of London declare they have
not heard CT any proposition to com
bine with the American Tobacco COM
pany
At Nyack, N. Y, the funeral Of
Harry Etyinge, who died at the age
Of 80, was held. He was an intimate
of the elder Boom, Edwin Forrest and
Mccullough.
The father of Nine. Melba, who had
not seen her for sixteen years, was so
overioyed at a recent meeting that he
burst a blood vessel in his brain and
may not recover.
The Japanese minister to Great
Britain, Baron Hayashi Tadasu, will
shortly be raised to the rank OF am
bassador, and a similar rank will be
conferred upon Sir Claude Macdonald,
British minister to Japan.
William Redmond, the irish nation
alist member of parliament, who
recently made an incendiary speech at
Waxford, has been summoned to give
recognizances for his future good be
haviOr.
Vice Consul General Smith at Cairo
cabled that since the Goth ult. there
have been 1926 cases of cholera and
6.651 deaths in all Egypt, but that the
general condition now is improving
rapidly
High meat prices in Germany may
compel the repeal Of the laws against
importation The hope of relief lies in
the overthrow Of the agrarian party.
The native farmers cannot supply the
demands.
Otto Sverdrup, artic explorer,
reached Stavanger, Norway from
voyage begun in 1898. The south and
west districts of Ellesmere Land were
explored. No effort was made to reach
the north pole.
The author Of Herman and Her
German Garden is disclosed as count
ess Won Arnim, formerly Miss May
Beauchamp, an English woman. Her
husband is the son Of former am
bassador to paris.
It is announced that the French gov
eminent will propose in the forthcom-
ing budget a reduction in the sugar
taxation to the amount Of $8,000,OOO as
compensation for the projected aboli-
ton of the sugar bounties
The elopement Of Grand Duke Paul
with the wife of M. Pistelkorst, a dis
tinguished French engineer. is his
fourth similar escapade, and the prob
abilities are that the hand OF the car
will fall more heavily this time.
The Russian ambassador to Turkey,
during an audience with the sultan,
called attention to various acts of
Turks which were inimical to Russian
interests, and strongly intimated that
they must be at once remedied.
Generals Botha, Delarey and De
Wet arrived at Antwerp and were re
ceived with great enthusiasm by
crowds of people estimated to have
numbered 100000 The demonstration
was not married by single anti-British
cry.
Jane Hayatt, an American woman,
failing to have a gas meter of her
own invention recognized in Chicago
or New York, took it to Paris and has
received $4,000 in royalties from the
French government and the Paris
Gas company.
The discussion of Andrew Carnegie's
offer of $150,O00 to the borough of
Marylebone for public libraries in that
part of London has brought out some
opposition to the idea, and the accept
ance of Mr.. Carnegie's gift has not
yet been decided upon.
Thomas w. CridIer, representing the
ST. Louis exposition, was officially re
ceived by M F'rancotte, the minister
of labor, at Brussels. The minister
said he was satisfied Belgium would
consider it duty as well as an honor
to participate in the exposition.
Stanley Spencer, London, steered an
airship built by himself from the
Crystal palace, London, over st.
PauFs' cathedral, around Ealing sub
urb, and against the wind toward Har-
row, a trip thirty miles long and
believed to show that the ship can be
gteered at will.
Much interest has been aroused in
India by the announcement that the
crown prince of Germany, Frederick
William, is likely to accompany the
duke and duchess of Connaught, who
are to represent King Edward and
Queen Alexandra at the coronation
durbar.
A new journal, the Rand Daily Mail,
appeared in johannesburg for the first
time and announced that loan of
800 000,00 irrespective of the war
debt of $500,O00,000, will be raised for
public works and become an immedi-
ate charge on the revenues of Great
Bri+atn's new south African colonies.