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

FOREIGN.
A courier from Fee announces the
capture of the pretender.
The crown princess of Saxony and
NJ. Giron will be married in August
Pope Leo received 5000 pilgrims
from Germany. Austria, and Belgium.
The German emperor will visit
Rome in May and the car is coming
in November.
Charles T. Yerhes is in favor of
channel tunnel to connect England
with the continent.
Vesuvius has again become active.
The volcano is throwing up ashes and
explosive incandescent globes.
Venezuelan peace protocols were
unfavorably received at Caracas, and
may not be ratified by congress.
The number of theological students
in the great German university has
fallen off greatly in the past few
years.
At Munich the abbess of an old
ladies' asylum has been sentenced TO
six years for attempting to murder
a servant.
The February statement of the
London board of trade shows a de-
crease of S5.6OO.OOO in imports and an
increase of S7,316.0O0 in exports.
c. r. Devlin, nationalist, was elect
ed unanimously TO represent Galway
in the British commons in place of
Col Lynch, in prison for treason.
The kaiser is accused by socialists
in the German reichstag with abetting
army duels by pardoning officers con-
victed of murder in courts of honor"
The government of Victoria mas APP
pointed Thomas TAFT, traffic manager
of the Canadian Pacific railway, to be
chief commissioner of the Victorian
railways.
The Canadian steamship subsidy by
the British government will be con-
ditioned on a promise not to enter
pools, shipping combines, or emf
grafton agreements.
At Montreal the steamer Montreal
burned at her dock and in panic
among the spectators, caused by a
falling shed, at least three were
killed and many injured.
King Edward held a levee in the
throne room of Buckingham palace.
Among those present was United
States Consul General Evans. who
was presented by Ambassador Choate.
The final court of appeals in Prus-
STA has sustained the police in pro-
hibiting the production of Paul
Heyse's Mary of Magdala, holding
that the theology of the play is bad.
The tomb of the Egyptian King
Thotmes ", near TheGes, was fOuno
TO contain the mummified loins of
beet, mutton, and poultry placed
there 1000 years ago. A chariot
body was found intact.
President d. r. Francis of the st.
Louis exposition was given a fifty
minute interview with the kaiser,
where a usual audience lasts five min
utes. A dinner was given for him by
the emperor's representative.
Earl Cowley, a leading figure in the
Hartopp and several other matri-
monial sensations. is said to be en-
gagged TO marry Miss Dorothy Jeffer-
son, the extremely pretty 19-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Jefferson, an Ameri-
can.
Prince Henry of Prussia called at
the Berlin studio of Mrs. Cadwalder
Guild. the American sculptor. Satur-
day and spent an hour in examining
her work. The prince was par
ticularly interested in a bust of
President Mckinley.
At Johannesburg two men attacked
custom officers conveying $4,000 to
the bank. and throwing pepper in
their eyes, secured the money bags,
which they threw to a horseman, who
galloped off. The horse threw the
the rider, who was arrested and the
money recovered.
Major General Paprikoff has sent
in his resignation as minister of war
of Bulgaria because his colleagues
rejected his demand for a credit of
S1.6OO.OO0 for the purchase of war
material. Unless Prince Ferdinand
accepts his resignation the whole
cabinet will resign.
r. F. Patterson, United States
consul general at Calcutta, reporting
upon the cotton crop of India in
.19O2-19O3. estimates it at 3.500,000