Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-11-17

/ Alfred McDOugall, provincial solicit
tor, is charged with stealing money
from the Ontario government.
Thousands Of Shans in Siam rose
| in rebellion against overtaxation and
massacred the Sianese at Laos.
The Australian government is pre-
pairing a bill to exclude foreign-owned
ships from the Australian coastwise
service.
At Paris Lecomte introduced bill
in the senate making duelling a mis-.
demeanor, punishable by imprison,
ment and fine.
At the international Photographic
exhibition at Turin, Italy, United
States exhibits took the lions share
Of the prizes.
In Hungary a boy dug up his
fathers body and burned it because
he thought his PARENTS spirit stoned
the house.
General Viveros, who escaped from
the insurgents, reports that General
Herrara has an army of 5000 revo-
Iutionists.
Arbitrators in the coal strike in the
| Pasde-Calais district of France de-
cided against the miners demand for
more pay.
The German reichstag defeated the
motion to suspend customs duties
when ayndicates sell at lower rates
abroad than in Germany.
| Baron Burchard Won Muenchausen
| lost his suit charging blackmail against
Berlin tradesmen who lent the money
on which he came to America to get
a $7,5OO,OOO wife
A severe earthquake shock has
been felt at Guarda, in the province
of Beira Portugal, and at other
places. There has been serious loss
Of life.
English newspapers are distrustful
of Emperor Williams visit. Minis
ters are warned against joint action
with Germany in Africa, Asia Minor
Tor China.
| A dispatch received in London from
Calcutta says the Indian government
has refused the Standard Oil company
permission to prospect in the oil fields
Of Burma.
The Silesian Banking association
announced at BresIau Prussia, that
the cashier of the securities depart
ment Of the bank had embezzled
$57 800
The American billiardists who ex-
pected to participate in an interna-
tional tournament at Paris, to begin
Jan. 10 and end Jan. 81, are Sutton,
Schaefer, Slosson and Howison.
Only a few of the exiled Russian
students will return to their univer-
stiles. The majority have refused
to abstain from taking part in poll
tics and have elected to remain in
Siberia.
President Loubet signed the law
providing for pensioning the widows
and orphans of French civil and mill
tary officers who lost their lives at
the time of the volcanic disasters in
Martinique.
Aloi Miller, who, with Peter Won
Schlecta, had been on trial since Oct.
27, charged with traficking in forged
patents of nobility, was sentenced at
Prague, Bohemia, to two years i'm
prisOnment
A scandal involving peers of Eng
land is Of such a disgraceful nature
that the government has suppressed
the evidence and issued an unofficial
decree of Punishment against one
prominent lord.
General Manuel Lizando Barillas
former president of Guatemala and q
| colonel in the Guatemalan army, is
dead as the result Of asphyxiation by
volcanic gas in the vicinity of the
| Santa Maria volcano
Canada has about abandoned the
idea of a preferred tariff schedule
with Great Britain, owing to the op
position of Secretary of Colonies
. Chamberlain. Laurier admits the
hopelessness of allowing the desired
end.
1t has been decided that the details
and conditions Of the evacuation OF
Shanghai by the troops of the powers
are to be adjusted subsequent to the
actual evacuation, which will, as previ
ously agreed upon, take place at an
early date.
Lord Miner, British high commits
sioner to south Africa, expresses the
conviction that in their coal and iron
deposits and in their agricultural de
velopment England's new colonies will
find surer source of wealth than in
the gold reefs.