Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-29
FOREIGN.

THE eruption of Mount Vesuvius has
assumed large proportions.
IT is reported that forty lives we're lost
by cOlllery explosion at Bolton, En-
gland.
THE fund started by the lord mayor of
London to aid Irish ladies in distress
amounts to $4,000.
THE Cuban authorities have discovered
false certificates, by means of which 17O
negroes are held in bondage
AT Soudan, Egypt, false prophet with
1.5O0 followers, killed Governor Forsheda
and totally annihilated his force of $50
Egyptians.
President BLANCo has asked the legis-
lature of Venezuela for authority to or
ganize force of $4,000 men to repress
revolutionists
In three churches of Santander, Spain,
accommodation has been pronounced
against the director of three liberal news
papers, for attacking the clergy.
For caustic criticisms upon Bismarck )
course on the Jewish question. the editor
Of the Berlin Gazette has been sentenced to
imprisonment for one month.
THERE were six arrests in Ireland, in
one day recently, under the coercion act.
Orders for hundred beds for female
prison at Dublin have been given.
GEN. PRADo, ex-president of the re-
public of Peru. is in New York. He de-
clareG that this country will never consent
| to the annexation of part of her territory
| to Chill
! ANNA PARNELL. in addressing six hun
| dred Irishmen at Huddersfield, said that
| the reported outrages in Ireland are exag-
! gerated, the funds of the emergency com
mittee being employed in getting up po-
! lice cases.
On charge of publicly insulting the
sultan, q correspondent of The Daily NelUs,
of London, is being tried at Constantine
! pie. Ten witnesses testified that they
| heard the accused use seditious langu age.
! Bail was refused.
THE police of Madrid arrested mail
robber, who exposed the ooerations of a
gang of postal thieves. Five thousand
letters have been stolen, and sixteen per-
sons were arrested. One hundred valua-
| bic letters, addressed to important firms
| in Madrid, were found in the bouses of
! accomplices in the theft.
THR Dublin police discovered the
whereabouts of the arms siezed last Sun
day morning, through drunken quarrel
am ong the persons who concealed them
! Four persons-three Whelans ard q man
named Ryan-have been arrestsd. 1t is
believed that the disclosures will lead to
a Gumber of important arrests, and to fur
ther seizures.
The Dublin police seized the Office of
United Ireland. the land-league paper,
carted away 4.200 copies of the paper to
the castle, and arrested the sub-editor and
clerk. 1t was intended to prevent the
publication ofthe paper this week. but the
editors stole march, and got it out day
earlier. The paper will be published in
England for the future.
NEAR Killaloe, Ireland, a magistrate
named Stoddard was fred upon by un-
known persons. The agent of Sir Roger
Palmer is reducing his entire rental or
the basis of decisions by the land court.
There were three arrests at Dublin under
the coercion act. At Cork forty seized
farms were offered for sale, and twenty-one
were purchased for the landlord.
THE London fund for the defense OF
property in Ireland amounts to $1,000,