Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-19
FOREIGN.

According to kilograms from London the
papers of the 18th unanimously recognize the
thoroughness of the defeat Of the Government
in the Parliamentary elections A cable tele-
gram of the Sth says Gladstone would await
the conclusion of the elections before deciding
as to what course the Government must pur
sue.
A recent Berlin dispatch announces the
death of David Friedrich Strauss, the eminent
German theologian.
A London telegram Of the 9th states that the
diplomatic representatives of Spain at Brus-
sells, Berlin and Lisbon had resigned.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made at
Yeddo to assassinate Iwakura, the head of the
Japanese delegation that recently visited
America.
A second decree has been issued by the jap
anese Government this time a peremptory
one, recalling all the students residing abroad
at the expense of the Government except
those who have given the very highest proofs
of advancement.
By proelamations recently issued, Jovellar,
Captain General of Cuba, has declared the en-
tire island in a state of siege, and ordered the
mobilization for active service of four volun-
teers out of every ten, this mobilization to be-
gin Immediately and continue six months.
All persons between the ages of twenty and
forty-five not volunteers on the LIST of Febru-
airy are to be enrolled in the militia.
A telegram from Madrid of the 10th says it
was reported that the Spanish Government
had agreed to an exchange of prisoners with
the Carlists.
There was rioting at Chesterfield and Barns
ley, England, on the 10th, and many police
Buckingham, congratulated his constituents
on the result of the elections, which he de-
elared justified the policy of the Conservative
party in introducing and carrying a Reform
law when last it held power.
The Ministry tried to force an alteration in
the terms of the Confederation through the
British Columbia House on the night of the
9th. The people demanded a submission of
the question to them, but the Ministry re-
fused. The people, one thousand strong, pro-
ceeded to the Houses and brokeup the sitting.
Intense excitement prevailed, and secession
was imminent.
A late letter from Paris says: 'The sus-
pension of the greatest of French Catholic
papers, II UniuerS, at the instance of Prince
Bismarck, furnishes striking proof of how
complete is the subserviency of the French
Government to German orders.'
According to a London dispatch of the 18th,
the Ashantee war had ended, and the departure
of Sir Garnet Wolseley and his forces from
the Gold Coast was fixed for the LIST of March.
Late South American reports say the yellow
fever ragged undated at Rio Janeiro, and the
cholera in Buenos Ayres and Montevideo.
Thousands of the inhabitants of those cities
had fled.
A cable dispatch of the 18th says the Ger
man bark Hercules had foundered at sea.
Eleven of her crew persisted.
Six hundred and seven of the 652 members
of the British House of Commons had been
chosen up to the 18th, of whom 325 are Con
servativcs and 2S2 Liberals. There was q
serious election riot on the 18th near Strur-
bridge, Worcestershire. The police were un-
able to quell the disturbance and called upon
the militia, who dispersed the rioters, a mum
Der of whom were injured.
A mob of several hundred men marched
toward the Captain General palace in Havana
on the evening of the 18TH with the intention
of demanding that the Government send into
the field the entire battalion of volunteers
with their own officers, instead of one-tenth
of the battalion, as ordered in Jovellar's re-
cent DEGREES. Mounted police met the rioters
and dispersed them. There were no casual
ties. The city was quiet on the 18th, but fur
ther trouble was feared.