Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-05-20
CABI,EGRAMS.

THE Catholic bishop of Ossory, Ire
land, in pastoral, condemns the land
league.
THE cost of the Afghan war now is
confessed to be upward of $4,000 0CO,
and probably will be more.
WILLIAM LANG, Jr., & Co., lead manu-
facturers, of Glasgow, have failed, with
| liabilities estimated at 100000.
THE commission on the question of
restoring the palace of the Tuileries, has
| dec ided to restore and convert 1t into a
| museum.
A BERLIN dispatch says: Rumors are
in circu latiOn that Russia intends to ar
range fresh loan with the Roths-
childs.
! AN order has been published tempora-
! rily increasing the police force in st.
Petersburg by two hundred and fifty in.
spectOrs.
GEORGE CLARK & Co., tea merchants,
have failed. Liabilities estimated at
from 100000 to 100000. The losses are
ascribed to speculation in tea.
GEN. ToDLEBRN has been summoned
to ST.. Petersburg flom Odessa. 1t is un.
derstood he will be appointed Governor
General of Warsaw.
THE Cunard steamer Tariia has ar.
rived at Liverpool, and reports having
passed on the way thu ee large icebergs,
one OF which was eighty feet high by
4O0 feet long.
THE position of affairs between Bis.
marck and the Reichs'ag is considered
serious. His speech last Saturday pro-
duced an uum Istakable tension, which
has not thus Tar abated
MIR. BOURKE, Home Ruler, attempted
to ADDRESS the county Mayo electors at
Ballina, and was very roughly handled,
and compelled to retire, Notwithstanding
the Efforts OF the priets TO allow him to
be heard.
LONDON dispatches say that a new
rupee loan is the most likely mode of
meeting the deficiency in the budget
estimates. 1t is proposed to send com
mission to investigate the financial con-
ditlon of India.
A BERLIN dispatch says: = "When all
new formations, planned and mark ed
out IN their minutest details by the Ger
man war ministry, are completed, the
total strength OF the army will exceed
1000, 900 men"
A PARIS correspondent telegraphs,
SERIOUS rioting in connection with the
strike occurred yesterday at L0ubaix,
during which the soldiery charged the
M ob. Further serious disturbances are
appreheDded."
A BERLIN correspondent saws: 1T is
reported here that the ENGLISH Cabinet
is endeavoring to effect European con-
ference to dispose Of the points in the
Berlin treaty remaining in suspense
VIENEA advices say that four thousand
horses 5000 Martini rifles and 10000
cartridges have arrived at Scutari for
the Albanians, who occupy the whole
territory from Scutari and Prisrend to
Kanaja. The Turkish officers and men
everywhere are fraternizing with them.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says
trustworthy news has been received from
Scu ari that the whole of Northern AL
bania is in arms. The authorities seem
to have lost all power. Scutari has al
ready sent 1900 men to the insurgents,
and the entire population capable of
bearing arms is ready to turn out in case
Of need.
FAMINE in the Provinca of Azerbaijan
is increasing. The crop prospects are
bad. There have been 600 deaths from
starvation since January in the district
of Urumiyah. Twelve hundred chris.
tians have lettthe country. Wheat costs
sky pounds sterling per ton in the fam
inc stricken district.
i The outlook in the cotton-s plnning dis
trict in England, is very gloomy. AT
Blackburn it is expected that all the
weavers will turn out to morrow. Many
of them are on strike today. At Old
ham the prospect is extremely depress.
ing. The master spinnners announce
their determination to close the mills for
a week, unless the men withdraw their
demand for an advance of per cent. in
their wages. A season of anxiety, distress
and turmoil, is feared.
A PARIS correspondent says: "Pr emier
Gladstone prefers not to open negotia-
tions for a new commercial treaty until
the new tariff law has been passed by
the French Senate, in order to have a
sure basis for discussion. If Gladstone
persists in this attitude, it is feared, Leon
Saye may resign the French Am basador-
ship 10 England, which he only accepted
for short time, and solely for the pur-
pose of this negotiation.
A VIENNA correspondent of the Times
reports that affairs in Albania are not so
bad as special dispatches make out, but
\
raise doubt whether the question can
ne settled without an armed conflict.
Five or six thousand Albanians are as
sembled at Tusi, few miles from Pod
goritza. The Montenegrins are concen
traiing 5000 men at Podgoritza. The
Turkish force in the province is only
about 5000. Even if the porte is willing
to execute the convention, it has not the
power, and if un willing, it is difficult to
see how the Intervention of the powers
can be efectually brought 10 bear.
THE United States frigate Constella-
ton, left the harbor of Queenstown on
he 18th inst for New York. She was
taken in tow by the tug Fergus McIver.
A large number of gentlemen whose &C