Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-01-29

Sixty-seyen Austrian firms have thus
far announced their intention of pa r.
ticipating.
The English minister of war is about
to submit proposal to parliament
that the government acquire thirty
batteries of howitzers and 100. 900 i'm
proved rifles.
Constabulary Inspector Fletcher. In
fight with thirty Philippine ladrones
killed five, captured one, ard was
slightly wounded; reinforcements
killed six others.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
and the other members of the royal
family attended memorial service in
memory OF Victoria at the royal mauso-
leum at Frogmore
Alfred Belt, the finacier, who has
been seriously i'll, left johannesburg
for England. He had sufficiently re-
covered to be able to walk from his
carriage to the train.
| At Durham the bubonic plague,
is epidemic. There are no less than
! thirty-six cases, two of which are
Europeans. Thus far seventeen have
died from the plague.
Queen Helena received Ambassador
and Mrs. Meyer most cordially in
private audience at Rome and express
ed the friendliest sentiments for
America and Americans.
A boiler explosion in Tuppers iron
! works at Bilston, StaffordshIre, re-
suited in the killing of five persons
and the injuring of twenty or thirty by
steam and pieces of flying metal
The government of Rhodesia has
awarded two of the Rhodes scholar
ships at Oxford to students attending
the Jesuit college at Buluwayo. These
! are among the first awards made.
The czar has extended to the monks
and nuns expelled from France the
| right to settle in certain parts of Rus
! STA. AS a result several monasteries
and converts will shortly be erected in
! Siberia.
The Siamese government has
agreed to a prolongation of the de-
lay in signing the Franco-Siamese
treaty until August in consequence of
powerful French opposition to the
treaty.
AT the court-martial of Major Edwin
F. Glenn at Manila two civilian scouts
+ testified that they ordered the native
guides killed, and that Major Glenn
did not order their execution as
charged
German opposition to Mormonism
has again appeared. Several Nor
mons who have been advocating the
tenets o. -..eir sect near Hanover have
been notified hat thew must leave
Prussian soil.
In dispatch from Stockholm the cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says:
THE famine in the north of Sweden is
becoming worse because of the alb
normally early winter, heavy snowfall
and intense cold"
Chinese dowager empress is asked
by censors to resign; the promised re-
forms declared to have failed and ex-
travagance in building useless rail-
road to tombs and in celebrating her
birthday is charged.
John Bottomly, general manager fol
the Marconi Wireless Telegraph COM
pany of America, has announced that
work would soon be begun for the
installation of wireless stations cap
able of covering pretty much all the
world.
Lord Rosebery in a speech at Ply
mouth approved Chamberlain Afri-
ran trip, but declared the British war
Office infested with 'bacilli," and that
Kitchener only capable man there
has been sent to India.
In the reichstag Chancellor Won
Buelow, in reply to Herr Richter, who
said Emperor William harmed the
country by talking too much, asserted
that the kaiser's individuality was
beneficial to the empire.
The Belgian government has de-
cided to construct large pavilion on
the st. Louis exposition grounds in
which all Belgian enterprises will be
fully represented by samples, illustra-
tions, and graphic charts.
German government and kaiser
were accused by Herr Bebel, socialist
leader, in a reichstag speech with be-
ing too sudden" attempt to outstrip
other nations in armament is useless
because of great American wealth.
Col Arthur Lynch's plea in the Lon,
don treason trial that he was a natur-
allied Transvaal citizen, was over
ruled: naturalization was declared to
have been preceded by oath of al
legiance to beers, a reasonable act.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Lain left Gibraltar for New York.
She had on board seventy-one cabin
and 657 steerage passengers. The
Lain, which grounded on sand bank
off Tumara, five miles east of Glib
raltar, sustained no damage.
At Odessa, Russia, about 600 male
and female prisoners made an organ
ICED attempt to break out of the Local.
Jail. 1t was only frustrated by the Ia
PREVENTION of hastily summoned troops,
who fired on the rioters killing two and
wounding a number of others.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Times says the condition of the Ger
man working classes does not compare