Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-04-28
FOREIGN.


The marquis of Devonshire was
granted divorce in London.
President Loubet attended the open
ing of the new salon in Paris.
The pope received in audience a
large number of Swiss pilgrims.
A bomb factory, supported by anar-
chists, has been discovered at Jurjeff
Russia
Political prisoners in Russia are
starving themselves in an effort to
secure speedy trial
The Belgian chamber of representa-
tives voted down the proposition for
universal suffrage.
The level of the Black and Caspian
seas was found lowered by the recent
earthquakes at Shemaklia.
The new Australian tariff bill per-
mits suspension of duties which lead
to trade combinations.
An explosion at Managua, Nicara-
qua, destroyed the military barracks
and 100 or 200 soldiers are reported
killed.
Prince Ching, president of the
| Chinese foreign board, protests against
the exclusion of Chinese from the
Philippines.
st. Petersburg university reopened
but with small attendance. Four hun
dred students will probably be exiled
for rioting.
Hermann Ganswendt, who invented
flying machine, was arrested by the
German police on charges of forgery
and swindling.
In the City of Mexico a severe earth
quake shock was felt It's duration
was one minute and half, the longest
experienced in years.
Russian peasants are starving and
dying of disease in the grain-growing
districts There are 1000 cases of
typhus and scurvy at MenZelinsk.
The reports of the dangerous illness
of Maxim Cork, the author, prove to
be unfounded, says a ST. Petersburg
dispatch. He is in excellent health
and is writing play.
Emperor Williams yacht Meteor
reached Southampton after a rough
Atlantic passage. The bowsprit was
carried away and the decks were I'M
der water two weeks.
Colonel Maximoff has been sentenced
at ST. Petersburg to two years i'm
prisonment for killing Prince Wittgen-
stein in a duel. The court recon-
mended that the colonel be pardoned.
In the British house of lords official
announcement was made of the annul-
ment of the bankruptcy of the duke
of Manchester, enabling him to take
his seat again among the hereditary
legislators of the British empire.
Maj-Gen. Sir Charles Parsons, K G.
NJ G., the new commander of the i'm
perial troops in Canada, arrived at
Halifax He was received with hon
ors by the garrison and a guard of
honor from the royal Canadian regi-
ment.
A serious riot occurred at Louvain,
near Brussels The socialists held a
demonstration. The police, in at
tempting to dispense them, were receiv-
ed with showers of stones. The civic
guard then fired on the mob. A SINH
lar riot occurred in another part or
Louvain, and altogether five persons
were killed and twelve were wounded.
A Chinese banker, from the province
of Kwang ST says the rebels in that
province hold over thirty towns and
villages and that they are well armed
with Mauser rifles and revolvers. They
have adopted the name of Hung-Siu-
Chuen, the famous leader of the Tai
Ping rebellion. They have placarded
the country with announcements that
the present dynasty has sold parts of
China to foreign powers.
The London Daily Telegraph an
nounces that prolonged negotiations
have resulted in new combination
among the steamship lines, involving
no change in officials and little
change in management. The lines are
the White Star, the Dominion, the
Ley1and, the Atlantic Transport, the
American and the Red Star lines. The
joint control of the amalgamated COM
panies will be practically in the hands
Of the same men who guide their sep
arate destinies, the intention being to
reduce working expenses, to avoid
ruinous competition, and to secure
harmonious working relations with
the great American railways.
At a secret session of the Danish
landsthing, three reports on the treaty
providing for the sale of the Danish
West Indies to the United States were
submitted. The right, constituting the
majority, was in favor of deferring