Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-02-27
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FOREIGN.

THE duke of Newcastle is dead.
TYPHUs fever RACES in France.
ANOTHER revolution has broken out
in Hayti.
TRANQUILITY has been restored in
Egypt.
SIX inches of snow fell in London
Feb. Dist
YELLOW FEVER is increasing at an
alarming rate in Rio Janeiro.
The Moscow newspapers are COM
PEELED to suppress plague news.
JOHN PARRY, the English singer, and
John Clark, an English comedian, are
dead.
SEVERAL large failures have recently
occurred in London and elsewhere
throughout England.
THE French atlantic cable is broken
161 miles from st. Pierre, Miqueron, in
500 fathOms of water.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan is said to
be still on Afghan territory, at Khulm,
or Tashkurgan, south fthe Oxus.
RUSSIAN military contractors stole
over $50, 100000 million from the gov
ernment during the short war.
BRAZIL is coming along nicely. An
income tax is the latest proposed i'm
! prOvement.
EVERY country in Europe is prepar-
ing to ward off the plague, and strict
sanitary measures are being adopted.
The Russian army is fast evacuating
Turkey, and Turkish troops are taxing
possession of the surrendered territory.
EVEN Russia has her little strikes.
The operatives in two large cotton mills
at st. Petersburg have struck for higher
wages.
The Egyptian Budget proposes that
the army be reduced to 10000 men,
and that the remainder, including 1000
officers, be disbanded.
INTELLIGENCE from Burmah is to the
effect that the King has murdered all
the Royal Princes and their families,
and had set himself up as despot.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says that
in consequence Of representations Of
U. S. consul Heap, the grand vizier
has abandoned the proposal to replace
the Turkish minister at Washington by
charge de- affairs.
The Chinese government has pur-
chased machinery and engaged expert
enced engineers and spinners in Ger
many to establish a cotton mill in Chi
na, so as to free that country from de-
pendence upon English anG Russian
| imports.
THE first detachment of troops for
the cape of Good Hope, sailed from
England Feb. 10Th. The streets of Col
chester were lined with flags and gay
with decorations, the people turning
out en- maosse to bid the boys bon gOyoge.
A LISBON cablegram of Feb. 19 says
the United States frigate Constitution,
Captain Badger, from Havre by way of
Portsmouth. England, where she repair
ed after being ashore on the English
coast, bound for New York, has been
towed in here with her rudder dam
aged.
THE Herald weather predictions for
the coast of Europe are being fulfilled
with singular exactness. Three days
before that date the Herald bureau pre-
dicted a severe storm for the 10Th and
Goth, and at that time terrific gale
swept over the British Isles and Nor
way.
A BERLIN cablegram says the rates
fixed in the bill proposed by the minis
ter Of finance for the increased duty and
tax on tobacco are 20 marks per hun
dred weight on imported, and 40 marks
per hundred weight on homegrown to-
bacco. The present rates are ~ and
20 marks, respectively.
ADvICEs from Cape Town to Jan. 90,
via Madeira, are as follows: Col.
Woods column was attacked Oh Jan.
"a by four thousand Zulus. The enc
my were dispersed with but trihing
loss to Col. Woods command. Several
attacks on Pearsons column and other
columns have been repulsed, but the
gravity of the situation has not been
exaggerated. The enemy are concen-
trating toward Ekowe, where Pearson is
intrenched. A grand attack is daily
expected. Col. Wood is falling back to
cover Utrecht.