Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-12-12
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for war or home defense.
Throngs viewed the body of Paul
Kruger, lying in state at Cape Town.
A London surgeon declared the ma
iority OF the cases of cancer can he
cured permanently.
Toletoi denounced the zemstvo
movement in Russia as being ali
obstacle to true progress.
A Greek band on Dec. 3 murdered
twenty-four Bulgarians in the village
of Altos, near Sorovitch.
A slur on the memory of Joan OF
Arc caused an angry debate in the
French chamber of deputies.
The infant crown prince of Italy
was christened with magnificent
ceremony at Rome, many notables
being present.
The pope e1evates Archbishop Far
ley to the dignity OF assistant to the
pontifical throne and receives Ameri-
can delegations.
At Florence, Italy, the wedding of
Miss Martina Jones Of Washington and
Marchese Giuseppe LAMA d'Areta
/ was SOl6mn-Z6Q.
The queen of Portugal left London
! hurriedly for Turin on receipt of grave
news regarding the condition of her
sister, Duchess D'Aosta.
London plans memorial to
Shakespeare Ambassador Choate was
named On the provisional committee
to arrange the preliminaries.
King Victor Emmanuel convened
parliament and proposes bills to pre-
vent strikes, elevate the working class
es and give Italians more liberty.
The London Standard asserts that
an entire Russian army division which
has been stationed in the Caucasus
has been ordered to the Afghan
| frontier.
! At st. Petersburg the trial of Sa-
soneff, who assassinated Interior Min
lister Won Plehve in July last and
! Sikorifsky, his accomplice, will be be-
hind closed doors.
Herr Bebel, socialist leader in the
reichstag, attacked the kaiser's world
policy declaring $3O0,0O0,OO0 a year
war expenditure a burden upon indus
trial activities.
The first trackless trolley street
railway has begun operation in Berlin.
The vehicles derive power from an
overhead trolley and have a speed of
ten miles an hour.
At Finland the return of five exiles
from Sweden, permitted by imperial
order TO participate in the meeting of
the diet, caused a great demonstration
on the part of their friends.
The Germania works at Kiel have
built submerging torpedo boat which
has met tests successfully The adj
miralty is making experiments with
other types of submarine boats.
The disappointing trials of the Allan
line steamer Victorian, the largest
turbine vessel yet built, raise serious
doubts among Clyde shipbuilders as to
the value of turbines for large ships.
At Munich Prince Frederick died,
aged 61 He was a member of the
Fnon-reigning Sigmaringen branch OF
the Hohenzollern family and younger
brother Of King Charles of Roumania.
Income tax statistics of Berlin show
that one person has an income Of $780,
600, three between 100000 and $780,
900, and nine between $250,000 and
$500, 900. The richest corporation
paid the tax on $3,000,00O income.
Emperor William, according to the
Tageblatt, has decided to send a
plenipotentiary to negotiate a com
mercial treaty with King Menelek and
to bear presents to the Abyssinian
monarch
1t is reported from Lahore, Pun
lab district of British India, that the
wife and children of DR.. Benjamin, an
American Episcopal missionary, have
been poisoned with arsenic. A ma
tive Christian schoolmaster is ac
cused.
At st. Petersburg a commission con
sisting of about 100 representatives of
the ministry of finance from various
parts Of the empire is considering the
question of extraordinary taxation
which is necessary to defray the ex-
| penses of the war.
The report that Lewis Nixon of New
York is sending 1000 American ship
wrights to Sebastopol to build Rus
sian war ships is untrue. All thar
Mr.. Nixon's agents are doing at Sebas-
topol at present is assembling ten
torpedo boats built in America. Mr..
Nixon has no contract to build large
war ships there.
OBITUARY..
The Russian ambassador at Vienna
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