Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-03-16

bales, an increase Of 100000 bales
over the crop of the year previous.
Attention is called to the extension
of area placed under cotton.
Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy
received in private audience United
States Consul General De Castro and
Mrs. De Castro. The queen showed
considerable interest in the large
number of Italian emigrants going to
the United States and expressed
satisfaction at the fact that there
were now so many Americans in
Rome.
With reference to the probable
meeting of the German emperor and
the duke OF Cumberland in COpen-
hagen early in April, it is stated
Emperor William will offer the duke
of Cumberland the duchy of Bruins
wick-Luneburg. but will adhere to his
former demand that the duke shall
renounce his rights to the throne OF
Hanover.
The special commissioner whom the
London Daily News has sent to travel
in the Balkans and investigate the
conditions there says the Macedonian
leaders are inclined to give the
Austro- Russian reforms a trial, but
he considers it doubtful if the leaders
can prevent a revolutionary out
break. The Macedonians have $4,000
armed men at call.
American inquiries for German iron
have increased greatly within the
past few days. American representa-
tives are on the point of closing con-
tracts with German establishments
for $4,000 tons of plate and $4,000
tons of billets. Americans also are
diverting to German mills orders for
steel rails which they intended to
place in England.
The royal commission that is to
deal with the question of London
traffic has been clearing the way for
its work. As the result of its pre-
Iiminary decisions. Mr.. Yerke5 is left
absolutely in possession of the fed
as far as tube schemes are concerned
and before any other scheme can be
built and working.
Captain Malcolm McCallum of the
Irish Transvaal brigade. on his way
home to San Francisco from the
British prison at Ahmednagar, India,
complains bitterly that 500 Beers, in
GLIDING women and children, are still
kept there in close bonds. i'll fed and
clothed, simply because they refuse
to make formal declaration of their
acceptance of British sovereignty.
King Edward has appointed Captain
Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, COM
modore of the royal yachts, vice the
Honorable Hedworth hamilton, who
has been appointed second in COM
mand of the channel squadron. Sir
Archibald Milne a couple of years
ago figured in a sensational dispute
with William Waldorf AstOr, who
cut" him at one of Mr.. AstOr's
parties.
Bostock's purchase of the giant ele-
plant lingo from the London zoe"
for his American menageTie. has been
NOp1C VI GdlnCol IOLliAAClAL III tic
newspapers. The ZOO" authorities
are bitterly criticised for selling the
animal, which is a great favorite with
the London children. lingo weighs
six tons. He is eighteen inches taller
than Jumbo was, but has not so we'll
shaped a body. He is % years old
and is perfectly docile.
The refinement near Daniel O'COn-
nell's grave in Glasnevin cemetery,
Dublin, of the remains of Sir Charles
Gavan Duffy, which were brought
from Nice, where he died Feb. >.
called out a demonstration unequaled
since the funeral of Charles Stewart
Parnell. The immense cOrtege was
headed by the mayor and corporation
of Dublin and included several mem
bers of parliament and twenty brass
bands.