Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
FOREIGN NEWS.
DEATH OF PRINCESS ALICE.

DEATH Ot IhlNCEoS ALICE.
A Darmstadt cablegram of Dec. 18th
says: The grand duchess of Hesse-
Darmstadt, Princess Alice of England,
died at 7 80 this morning of diphtheria.
The grand duchess was the third child
and second daughter of Queen Victoria.
She was born April 25th, 1S43. Her
father, the late Prince Albert, died Sat
urday, Dec. IA, 1861. The princess was
in an unconscious state from 2:3O until
the time of her death. A London dis
patch of the same date says Her
majesty, though greatly grieved, is not
i'll. The flag at Windsor Castle is at
half-mast, and the oells at the Royal
Chapel and Eaton College are tolling,
and nearly all houses, public and pri-
vate, in the royal borough, are closed.
GEN. ROBERTS CAMPAIGN.
A Lahore cablegram of Dec. 10th
says: Gen. Roberts telegraphs under
date of Thursday as follows: "We
have finished reconnaissance to the top
of Shutar Garden pass, and returned to
Ali Khel without firing a shot. The
country is friendly. [ am rapidly for
! tifying PieWar pass camp" Gen. Rob
erts was to leave Ali Khel for Kurum
to-day.
AFGHANS GIVING UP THE CAUSE.
A Lahore cablegram of Dec. 18th
says: The officials and notables of jail
lallabad have arrived at Dakka, to ten
der their submission and services to the
British authorities.
News from Cabul represents that the
eight regiments of Afghan infantry
there have shown a disinclination to
fight.
THE ANIEER SAID 10 BE SUING FOR PEACE.
A London cablegram of December
18th, says: A correspondent of the
NeUs, in a dispatch dated at Rawul Pin
des, says he has some reason to believe
that the ameer has SAINT relative and
high dignitary to Major Cavagnari, at
Dakka, beseeching the British to grant
peace, and asking no conditions. The
correspondent does not assert this pos
itively.
A dispatch from QueIlah says infor-
nation has been received confirming
the report that the garrison of Candahar
had been reinforced by Afghan troops
from Herat, and a large force from
| Turcoman.
A special to the Adye1tiser from Bonn
bay says an Afghan official arrived in
Gen. Brownies camp, from Jellallabad,
and invited the British to advance to
Cabul and establish a new government,
in consequence of the general uprising
| against the ameer.
A dispatch from Dakka says it is re-
ported that the ameer has blown the
commandant of Ali Musiid from the
cannon's mouth.
WHAT RUSSIANS ARE DOING IN BULGARIA.
A Constantinople dispatch of De-
cember 18th says: "The Russians
have decided to leave $4,000 men in
Bulgaria and concentrate all troops in
excess of that number at Adrianople,
until a definite treaty is concluded.
THE MOROCCO FAMINE.
Says a Madrid cablegram of Dec.
18th: Advices have been received from
Mogador, that a terrible famine pre-
walls there. The deaths number twen-
ty-fve daily.
SWISS ELECTIONS.
A Berne cablegram Of Dec. 11th says:
| Col. B. Hammer has been elected presi-
dent, and DR.. E. Weld, vice president
of the Swiss confederation for 1879.
A VESSEL RAISER.
Says a London dispatch of Dec. 18th:
The contractor for raising the Grosser
Kurt1wSt has signed a contract to raise
the Ponamerdnia.
| GOOD EXTRADITION LAWS.
A London cablegram of Dec. 18th
says: VIM. Johnstone, formerly clerk
in the Saline county bank at Marshall
Mo, arrested in Scotland, was examined,
to-day, on a charge of forgery, and held
for extradition.