Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-08
FOREIGN.

THREE fresh battalions of French troop:
have been ordered to north Africa.
5 THOMAS BRENNAN, late secretary of the
Irish land league, has been remanded tc
hlImalnham jail for three months
The total number of lives lost in the
wreck OF the African steamer Teuton was
! forty-four.
AT the request of the inhabitants of the
| Tunisian city of Susa, the French have
/ decided TO occupy that town.
! IT is said that the deanery of Westmin
ster has been accepted by Rev. George g.
Bradley, for some time honorary chaplain
to the queen.
THE loss of life by the laundering of the
Teuton off the Cape of Good Hope is now
stated at 236.
A DISPATCH from Cape Town announces
the wreck of the Union mail steamer Teu-
ton, with 200 souls on board, of whom only
p were saved.
FROM Morocco to Tunis the whole Mo
hammedan race is in state of ferment
The Arabs are concentrating to defend
Kairouan. the holy city.
ALL the country around Philippeville,
in Algeria, has been set on fire by the
Arabs, who started confagration in a
forest of cork trees.
AYoOB KAHN has sent an additional
amount of treasure to Herat, and reports
are renewed that he is making peace
oYertures to the ameer.
AT the consistory soon to be held in
Rome, Monsignor Freppel, who has long
been hostile to the French government,
will be nominated a cardinal
Miss ALICE the second 1auobtor of
Theodore Tilton. was married in Ger
many, in July, to John E. Gardin, of
Charleston, 5. g., and the young couple
will make their home in Chicago this fall.
The lndia-rubber warehouse of P. B.
Cowhill & Co., in Broad street, London. a
wine-store in Cheapside, and seven other
buildings, containing property valued at
Sl,OOO,OOO, were burned to the ground.
A PAMPHLET on the actual condition of
Russia, urging some kind of popular ad-
ministration. has been published by Count
Baschkoff and General Jacdoneff.
COUNT JoURDIEL, of Vienna, descend
ant of one of the oldest houses of the
French nobility. stole a carriage and
horses at Spa, sold them, and fled the
country.
FRANCE will be folced to conquer Tunis
lhCn Oy lncn. Sne already has IN that
country SO battalions of 500 men each.
The bey has lost all authority over the
tribes and his soldiers, and French control
IS now at its lowest point,
CLYDE (Scotland) ship-builders have
leased land at Havre, France, to locate
ship-building establishment capable of en-
ploying 5000 men. This is done TO secure
the benefit of the French Government
bounty for homemade ships
SECOND ballots were taken in France for
members of the chamber of deputies in
districts which failed to elect two weeks
ago. Twenty republicans and one conser-
vative were elected.
asked Lord Granville for a special 'mnedl-
cal examination of J. B. Walshe, who has
been imprisoned in Kilmainham jail for
six months.
BRADLAUGH has issued manifesto to
the English people in the shape of an ad-
dress to his Northampton constituents.
He announces his intention to go to the
house of commons again next session, and
he asks the English people to protect him
against unlawful violence.
THE Irish electors of Berwick, Sunder-
land, Durham, and Newcastle have, acting
on ParnelTs advice, agreed to vote against
the liberal candidate for North Durham,
which will probably insure the success of
Elliot, the Tory candidate, who was de-
feated at the general election by Col.
Joicey, now deceased.