Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-20
FOREIGN.

cutta March 10th.
ENGLAND will open diplomatic nego-
tiations with Yakoob Khan, the new
ruler of Afghanistan.
The Russian feld-marshal, Prince
Bariatinskv, died at Geneva, Switzer-
land, March 10th.
The French Atlantic cable is broken
161 miles from st. Pierre, Miqueron, in
500 fathoms of water.
IT is expected that Bismarck will dis
solve the parliament as soon as the bud
get is voted.
A REPORT that the pope had decided
to assert his claim TO temporal power
is denied by the organ of the vatican.
THE governor of New Caledonia tele-
graphs that the insurgents have sub
mitted, and peace has be3n restored.
ACCOUNTS from Sofia state that prep
aratiOns for another in2urrection in
Macedonia are actively being made.
THE city of Szegedin lately inundated
by the Thesis river, had about 10000
population and is an old commercial
center.
A TELEGRAM from Paris says that sew
eral cotton mills in the department Of
Nord have stopped on account of the
depression in the trade.
A PEsTH special says hundred square
miles in the neighborhood of Szegedin
are flooded. The crops in the district
are lost. The government sent 10000
forins for the relief of the inhabitants.
THE British troops have had great de-
lays in getting off for Africa. The last
disappointment was experienced at the
st. Vincent coaling stations where the
transports were kept for loug time
coaliEg up.
THE St. Petersburg police have at
length discovered and seized two of the
secret printing presses of the nihilists,
which have so long annoyed the gov
ernment and spread disafection among
the people. A large number of arrests
followed the discovery, and there will
doubtless soon be some sudden deaths
and many weary travellers toward ST.
IBERIA.
VERY recent intelligence from Lon
don informs US that from various quar-
ters throughout the kingdom advices
are to the effect that there is a perccp-
tible improvement IN business. Manu-
facturers are receiving new orders to
considerable extent. Employees are
tolerably we'll satisfied that they must
put up with reduced rate of wages,
and a moderately good spring trade is
anticipated.
PRINCE ARTHUR, the Duke of Con-
naught, the third son Of Queen Victo-
ria, was married to Princess Louisa
Margaret, daughter of Prince Frederick
Charles, of Prussia, March 18th. The
marriage took place at Windsor Castle.
1t was very brilliant affair. That the
bride should come to the house of the
groom, instead of vice versa, was un-
usual, and among some of the lady's
German followers was thought TO be un-
maidenly, but the command of Queen
Victoria is believed to have changed
the social rule, the reason therefor be-
ing kept a secret in the families inter
ested.
4 CORRESPONDENT at Szegedin states
that the government authorities report
that 800 persons have been drowned
AT noon Thursday there were still peo-
pie on the roofs of houses and in trees.
Some persons died from exposure to
the cClG. The Hungarian minister of
finance has left for Szegedin with 200,-
900 f1orins, to be distributed among the
sufferers by the inundation. The great
er part of the town of Szegedin was de-
stroyed, and several hundred people
perished Relief parties are actively at
work succoring the survivors. No Off
cial report of the extent of the calamity
has vet been received.