Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-07
FOREIGN.

! THERE are no prospects of a good Eng
llsh harvest, and doubts are entertained OF
even an average one.
THE empress of Germany has undergone
a severe surgical operation, and is recov-
erlng quite rapidly.
The delegate from Russia to the none
/ ta1y conference has submitted to his gov
eminent report opposing bimetallism.
| The Irish Land league reports contribu-
lions OF 100000 for the week, but no re-
mittance from the United States.
DURING an eviction row in county
Glare, ireland, it is said three policemen
were killed by the mob.
| GEN. DIAz has resigned the secretary
| ship of public works in the Mexican cabi-
net, and will be succeeded by General Pa
checo.
Mr.. GALLINGA, a welI-known CORE
spondent of the London Times, has gone to
investigate the condition of the exiles in
Siberia
THE construction of another railway is
Immediately to be commenced in Japan,
and the people Of Hong Kong demand a
telephone exchange,
HE British government is considering
the question of our international agree
ment to suppress the slave trade in the
Western Pacific.
ST. PETERSBURG correspondent asserts
that the policy of the present Russian min
lstry Is to show that the miIder rule of the
Mellkof government was failure. To
do this they pretend to discover plots and
consplracies TO alarm the car and to i'll
umJdate and coerce the journals.
Henri Rochefort and Paul de Cassagnac
have each duel on hand If both were
killed the world would not greatly miss
theL:. RochefOrt is the French ex-com-
muniSt, and DeCassagnac is bully and
duelist.
JOHANN MosT, the editor of the London
Fre5heit, wrs sentenced by Chief Jnstice
Coleridge to sixteen months imprisonment
for writing an article approving of the
assassination of the czar. Most respond
ed 1--WE might as well be in Russia"
EDMOND LAFAYETTE, the only living de-
scendant of the Marquis LAFAYETTE. and a
member of the French senate, cannot visit
America in October to be present at the
Yorktown centennial, on account of the
French elections, but the family will be
represented by his nephew
AT the Wiltshire sessions, in England
Marquis Townshend was fined $500 and
costs and held to keep the peace for one
year, for horsewhipping Lord Edward
Thyme. The latter had abducted the
marquis wife. Col. Neapau was fined
800 for abetting the assault.
AT Alietiana. Abyssinia, the native func-
t;onary arrested and maltreated the
French Catholic missionaries and their
converts, and allowed his savages to pillage
the church and mission house. The French
consul at Massowah has sent a note to the
| king demanding satisfaction.
LEROY, the man who til believed shot
Gould in the English railway carriage,
has not yet yet been arrested. The British
public are beginning to think that they
have the worst organized, and consequently
the least efficient police force in the world
| LEROY, or Mapleton, is descsibed as a
provincial newspaper reporter very fond
of theatre-going.
MEMBERS of the Italian National club
at Marseilles Kissed regiment of French
troops just disembarking on their return
from Tunis. Instantly the citizens sur
rounded the clubhouse and demanded the
removal o.. the English flag, which order
was disregarded. While the police were