Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-04
Foreign News.
NOT HAPPY.


Safvet Pasha will himself 60 to Berlir
with final and irreyocable instructions
Should the congress result unsatisfac
torily for Turkey, the opposition vii
probably attempt a rising.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
News from Serajevo shows that the
Turkish troops are moving westward
Five battalions from NOvi Bazaar vii
enter Herzegovina.
Austria has concentrated a consider
able force on the frontier Turkey i:
negotiating with Austria, and an under
standing may be arrived at.
AUsTRIA's SHARE.
A London special under date of June
29th states that on the opening of the
sitting yesterday Friday Count An,
drassy read q memorandum setting
forth the alarm and expense caused tC
Austria by the continued disturbances
i'll Bosnia. He did not ask for an,
nexation: he only begged the con.
gress to find some solution. Lord Sails
bury then parposed that Austria be
charged to occupy both Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and the pienipotentiaries
assented thereto, except the Turkish
who read a memorandum declaring
that Turkey could not possibly con
sent. She was only bound by
the treaty San of Stefano, the limits
Of which were exceeded by the
present demand. Turkey herself was
able to protect Bosnia, and the Turkish
plenipotentiaries had formal instruc-
tions to resist this concession. Lord
Beaconsfield declared that England
could not but adhere to Lord Salisbury 5
proposal. He reminded the Turks that
they had previously been unable to
maintain order in the provinces under
discussion.
A COUNCIL.
A dispatch from Constantinople of
June %, says that Count Zichy, the
Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Con-
stantinople, visited the Grand Vizier,
Sofia Pasha, at Z o'clock yesterday
morning. An extraordinary cabinet
council was subsequently held, the
sultan presiding, and the question of
Herzegovina discussed. The result
was an order to the Turkish plenipoten-
| tiaries in the Berlin congress to protest
against such occupation, without the
period of its duration being previously
fixed. The council lasted the whole
! day.
VIOLATION BY TURKISH TROOPS.
The Vienna Press of June %, says in
consequence of the violations on the
! frontier near Lions, bv Turkish troops,
| the frontier town Of Bilibrig has been
occupied by the Dalmatian landwehr.
REDUCED.
1t is said orders have been issued to
reduce the force and expenditures of
the Portsmouth, Eng, navy yard, and
it is understood the autumn maneuvers
will be abandoned to aid in the re-
| trenchment.
HUNGARY ARMING.
Military magazines are being con-
structed at Agram, Hungary, and the
provision contractors have been order
ed to deliver at Agram railway station,
by the 10th Of July, provisions for the
cavalry.
AN EVENT OF IMPORTANCE.
| An event of importance for the future
OF Austria is the imperial sanction given
to all the laws respecting the Austro-
hungarian compromise; and the diff
cult matter which occupied the depart
ments for more than two years may be
regarded as settled.
CONDOIENCE.
| Madrid dispatches under date of June
%, says the King Alfonso has received
kilograms Of coincidence from all the
European courts. The shops all closed
yesterday; theatres have ceased play
| ing, and busln ess on change is suspend
! ed. 1t has been decided that the body
of the queen shall lie in state three
days. The funeral will probably take
place next week.
The Italia, of Rome, states that the
| pope will celebrate a solemn requiem
mass for the repOse of the soul of the
queen of Spain.
DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.
Queen Mercedes of Spain died at
Madrid on June 26.
QUEEN MERCEDES.
A Madrid dispatch of June 81 says
| that the announcement of the death of
the queen of Spain has been received
with profound sorrow and sympathy
throughout Europe. The feeling in
Spain almost approaches CONSERVATION.
| Hopes were raised at the crisis of the
disease that the vigorous constitution of
the queen might triumph over the COM
plicatiOn of maladies, but her condi-
ton was made doubly perilous by the
fact that she was expected to become a
mother before the end OF the year.
The queen died about noon, in the arms
of the king, and surrounded by the
royal family. The remains will lie in
state to-day, and be conveyed to the
royal mausoleum at Escurial Friday.
The president of the medical faculty OF
the royal palace in the bulletin an
nouncing to the president of the coun-
Gil of ministers the death of the queen,
attributes the painful event to nervous
gastric fever, accompanied by severe
intestinel hemorrhage.
THE CONGRESS.
| The Vienna Press OF June 27 saws
Roumania having refused large
money indemnity for the retrOcessiOn
of Bessarabia, and having also refused
| the proposal to divide Bessarabia into
two parts, Russia now proposes through
Bismarck, that Prince Charles be the
future prince of Bulgaria; that he is
opposed by the Roumanian statesmen,
but they express the fear that Prince
Charles will accept the offer, for dynas-
/ tic reasons.
Anything new or fresh this morn
ing?" a reporter asked in railroad
office. Yes" replied the lone occu-
\ pant of thp anartYnpnt ssUbat ic n 9:'
queried the reporter, whipping out his