Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-05-12
FOREIGN.

At Cork, ireland, world fal'
opened.
France has protested against the
sending of Siamese troops to Mekong.
Princess Radziwill was sentenced
at Cape Town to two years imprison-
ment for forgery.
Henry LabOuchere, in London
Truth, declares that British trade
supremacT is doomed.
London expects to hear within a
fortnight definite news regarding the
peace outlook in south Africa
Professor Behring says he has fOuno
a. vaccination method of rendering
cattle immune from tuberculosis.
Sergeants Heckel and Marten were
acquitted at Gumbinnen, Germany Of
numbering Captain Krosigk, a cavalry
officer.
The Standard Oil company has con
troll of all the German petroleum firms
but two, according to the tariff com
mission report.
Professor Gehring, noted German
scientist, declares experiments show
that the tubercle bacilli are the same
in men and cattle.
Balschaneff, the man who as
sassinated M. Sipiaguine. the Russian
minister of the interior, April Is, was
hanged May 3.
At MelbOrTne, Victoria, as an out
come of diC. abstraction with the con
stitutiOn and government, the Victor
ian cabinet has resigned.
SenOr Augusta Severe, Brazilian
aeronaut, made a successful airship
trial in Paris, Unanswered his craft
and returned it to it's shed.
Russia will rebuild forts on the
Austrian and German frontiers at
cost Of $21O,OOO,OOO because Colonel
Grimm betrayed existing plans.
Charles T. Yerkes, before the house
Of lords committee, informed the
lawyers that he was not conducting
kindergarten in simple arithmetic
President Loubet of France made
farewell address to the ENJOYS sailing
for the United States to take part in
the unwilling of Rochambeau statue.
Practical businessmen of England
expressed the belief that the Morgan
shipping combine would in the end
benefit Great Britain and draw Ehe
alliancei closer.
divorce bill, introduced by Earf
Russell, was thrown out in the house
of lords. The bill provided for divorce
on five grounds in addition to the
causes already valid in England
At Winnipeg, sensational arrest
for murder was made When Gustav
Mueller, a Canadian Pacific railway
employe, was put behind the bars on
suspicion Of having murdered his wife.
A parliamentary paper just publish
ed shows total estimated charge on
account Of the war in south Africa. to
March 81, 1908, of &222,97O,OOO and
for operations in China a total of
G8,O1O,OOO.
Queen Wilhelmina is believed to he
dying from premature confinement
The attack of typhoid fever four
weeks ago had weakened her, but her
subjects thought her practically ont
Of danger.
A French Roman Catholic priest
belonging to the Je,lit mission at
Kichou, Chill, 100 miles southwest Of
11entSin, was murdered April 27. His
head was afterward displayed on a
pole.
Herman Dick of Chicago will sail
for New York after an eight months
soJOurn in London where he represent
ed Edison in forming a company to
utilize Mr.. Edison's patents for ex-
tracing iron ore on the west coast of
Norway The company has a capital
of e2,OOO,OOO.
A rumOr was circulated that the
czar had ordered the lands of the
MOBILES to be divided among the
serfs. The peasants
thereupon formed committees, under
the commune officials, waited on the
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