Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-12-30
FOREIGN

The task of improving the finances of
Turkey has been abandoned as hopeless by
Herr Wittendorf, Prussian.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR Donald
STEWART will become commando r-in-chief
of the forcus in India, next spring.
ALL the powers have agreed to the pro-
posed arbitration upon the Turco-Grecian
question.
AT last accounts the Chilian expedition
against the Peruvian city of Lima had not
yet reached its destination.
The British garrison in Ireland Will
soon number 10000 men, including ten
batteries and seven cavalry regiments.
THE police stationed at Milltown, Ire
land, have been made to feel the meaning
of the word Boycotting, as they are actu-
ally without food
THE disturbed condition of Ireland has
induced the empress of Austria to give up
her hunting box in the Green Isle.
The Canadians are startled by an in
crease of $9, 100000 in the public debt of
the dominion for the fiscal year.
BEING unable to shake off the Indian
fever, the marquis of Ripon will probably
be asked TO be relieved of the viceroy-
ship.
A DUBLIN dispatch of the 9th saws:
The land commissioners concluded their
inquiry and communicated the result to
Gladstone"
THE Pail Mall Gazette of the 9th says:
We see not the slightest reason to believe
it necessary for the marquis Of Ripon to
return from India.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Times at Buch-
Arrest says: II hear on good authority
that the commercial difficulties between
Austria and Servia have been arranged" :"
THE north of England has serious
freshet. The river Irwell has overfowed
its banks, flooding a large tract of country
and filling the Easements Of houses.
TIE friends of Mrs. Cross George Eliot
Stanley be asked to permit the interment
of the remains of the dead authoress in
Westminster Abbey.
THE first spiral tunnel on the ST. Goth
ard line, in Switzerland, has been COM
pleted. 1t is one thousand metres in
length, and was bored through granite en-
tirely by hand.
A REPUBLIC has been organized at Held
elburg, in Africa, by the Beers, who mum
Der 5000, and a detachment of colonial
revolt. 1t is thought in London that
Wolseley will be dispatched thither with
4 British army.
SOME of the protestant farmers of the
north are making determined stand
toned at Cork have been ordered to sup
press land meeting proposed to be held
at Kanturk the I'd of January.
Il, L
British regiment of $50 men, was attack
ed by Beers while on their way from
I4ydenburg to Pectona, in the Transvaal,
and 120 of them were killed. and the
others were made prisoners. The Boars
are greatly elated at their success.
THE London Times of the 9th. in lead
ing article says: The reported seizure of
a cargo of arms appears 10 have original
ed in an error or exaggeration. Even if
no importation of arms for the purpose of
Irish American Fenians were to be feared.
the danger of allowing an excited and law
! less population to carry about guns and
pistols is manifest.
THE Beers in proclaiming the Trans
vaal a republic, announce a struggle to
restore treaties broken by British
officers, and throw upon the latter the
onus of an appeal to arms, if such shall
result, The reply of the British author
tiles was proclamation offering pardon
to all who would withdraw from the revo-
lutionary scheme.
THE London Times of the 18th, in lead
ing editorial says: ''The government has
apparently some suspicion that behind the
agrarian organization in ireland. other
projects are being Matched. 1t is proba-
BILE that mischievous gang of Irish
American flibusters, who were the authors
of the Fenian rising in 1867, are again at
work. They find the masses flushed with
! triumph over law, and abundantly fur
! nished with arms which have been sold in
hundreds of thousands throughout Ireland
since the peace preservation act was allow
ed to elapse, six months ago. 1t is impos-
sible to be sure that they will not set a
match to the train"