Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-02

AINAb AS SRtC&%AnS~ 1G engagement
took place at Villa do Coura. and it is
reported that the revclutionaT COM
mander, Ge1eb@l Luciano Mendoza,
was defeated by the government
troops.
Senior Lopez, who was arrested in
Batangas province for reasonable
communication with the insurgents
has been hanged He was brother
of Sixto Lopez, AguinaId0s European
representative. and a. wealthy mer-
chant in Manila LeopaZ massacred
143 Spanish prisoners in 1898.
Harry de Windt, traveller, IS sure
that Boring strait can be crossed by
railway quite as easily as the straits
of Dover-by tunneling. of course He
is about to lead party from Paris to
New York by land, to ascertain the
feasibility of the scheme of which he
is thus assured before he starts.
Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, the we'll
known chemist and former Sibthorpian
professor of rural economy in the
University of Oxford. who visited Can
ada and the United States in 1882 and
1884. to study the conditions of the
agriculture of those countries, is dead
in London. He was born in 1917.
1t seems that girls, as well as boys,
of Reykjavik. Iceland, have contracted
the habit of smoking cigarettes, and
the law allows any adult man or
woman who finds a boy or girl smok-
ing to give the young offender a sound
spanking and to seize and destroy any
cigarette found in his or her possess
sion.
Venezuela having failed last year
in her attempt to renew diplomatic
relations with France, even after the
good Offices of the United States had
been invoked to assist in the negotla-
tons, has at last got the Spanish
government to instruct the Spanish
ambassador in Paris to plead her
cause.
The authorities of Beyrout, Syria.
have notified naturalized American
citizens that they must renounce their
naturalization within Is days, other
wise they will be expelled from
Turkey. Spencer Eddy. first secre-
tary of legation at Constantinople.
has made an energetic protest in the
matter.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Daily Chronicle says there
were serious anti-German demonstra-
tions at Moscow last week, during
which the escutcheon on the German
consulate there was shattered The
correspondent adds that the Russian
censor stopped the transmission of
this news.
A dispatch from Constantinople
says that w. w. Post, treasurer of the
Turkish mission in that city, and NJ
Garguilo, dragoman of the United
States legation at Constantinople, are
still at Salonic endeavoring to open
negotiations with the brigands who
hold captive Miss Stone, and to fix a
rendezvous with them
Assassination and pillaging of viii
lagos and outraging of inhabitants
have so increased recently in Mace
donia that the consuls have appealed
to the embassies to put stop to such
crimes. The foreign ministers have
made urgent representations to the
porte of the danger of permitting the
continuance of such acts.
Gontaro Ohdachi, chief engineer of
the imperial Japanese navy. has ar
rived in New York on the Celtic. He
is on his way to Japan by way of San
Francisco. Mr.. Ohdachi was chief
engineer on the battleship Euro in the
Chinese-Japanese war. and on its ter
mination was promoted for his serv--
ices to his present rank.
There is no truth in the report pub
lished in the United States by a news
agency that Mgr Scalabrini had been
practically selected to succeed Mgr.
Martinelli, as papal delegate in the
United States, and that he had begged
the pope to excuse him from such pro-
motion. The vatican never intended
to appoint Mgr. Scalabrini to- the
Washington post.
The recent graduation of Turkish
girl from the American Medical college
in Turkey formed occasion of a char
acteristic imperial edict. Turkish
children henceforth must not attend
foreign schools. Christian teachers
must not be employed in Turkish fam
lilies. and Turkish ladies must not ap-
pear in public. attended by Christian
women companions
A dispatch to the London Daily
Mail from Sydney announces that
Joseph Chamberlain. the colonial
secretary. has telegraphed TO E. Bar
ton. the prime minister Of the COM
monwealth of Australia. to the effect
that the British government would be
glad of 1000 men for service in South
Africa. This Will be the first federal
contingent to go to South Africa.
In response to a request for a
royal souvenir OF the fatherland
Prince Luitpold. regent of Bavaria.
early in che coming year will send the
Bavarian American verein of Chicago
a magnificent commemorative banner
representing the most artistic work of