Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21
FOREIGN.

A CONFEDERATION in the Guy Of Chat
ham, England, Tuesday night, destroy
cd 5000, 900 worth of property.
THE leading Journals Of Paris to-day
are lauding Gladstone for having avert
ed the threatened war with Russia.
A MOTION Of censuIe Of the Glad
| stone ministry was rejected By the Brit
ish house of commons Tuesday night,
by 30 majority.
THE australian Colonial Government t
now serving at Suakin to memorize the
services of the Australian contingent
in the SOudan campaigns.
| The British house OF commons, by q
| vote Of 337 to 50, granted an annuity Of
! Sc, 600 TO Prir CESS Beatrice, who is soon
| TO be married
! THE military patrols IN Limerick. hav-
! ing been subjected to frequent assaults,
were armed with rifles. The hostility
! of the paople has thus bean. inf amed,
and the mayor will petition the govern
m9nt to rescind the order.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, ex- United
! States Minister to tho Porte, has official
ly rendered his farewell to the Sultan,
and will leave COnstantinople next Fri
| day. The American residents in the
Turkish capital have presented General
| Wallace with an eulogistic address.
THE bill to provide 911,000,000 $3.50,
| 600 00O) for the expenses of war prep
arations IN the SoudaD, and other war
expenses, recently incurred, paased the
British house Of commons. The sum
of $1,000, 600 ($5, 600, 000) will be used to
aid in the construction eff railroad lines
in India to Quetta, on the Afgi anistan
border.
IN an interview regarding the pas
sage Of the Dardanelles by English war
vessels, M. Neiidoff, the Russian Aul-
bassador, said that he considered such
action by England quite possible, and
he proposed the sending Of Identical
notes by Turkey to the great powers to
prevent it.
The Official Messenger Tuesday pub
fishes lengthy dispatch from General
Komaroff, in which he explains more
fully his actions and gives more details
Of the incidents which led up to the
battle between the Russians and At
ghans on the Kushk river on March 80.
In this dispatch, General K9maroff
reiterates every thing he said in his for
mcr dispatches regarding the unexpect-
ed progressive movements of the At
ghaus, and claiming that the latter were
the aggressors.
THE Imperial Council Of W:r have
ordered the transfer Of the military and
medical stores from Kransnov0d to
Askabad, and have instructed the COM
missionary department to get ready to
equip 20S, 600 reserves. Articles for the
formation Of a steamboat company for
operation on the river Oxus have been
submitted for approval of the council
Of the empire. General Annekoff has
started to push the work oN the Trans
Caspian railway.
Mr.. GLADSTONE stated that the
agreement which had been reached by
Lord Granville, the Earl of Kim berry,
Baron de Staal and NJ Lessar respect
ing the Afghan boundary had been for
warded by Baron de Staal to ST. Peters
burg for approval. Baron de Staal and
II. Lessar has not, Mr.. Gladstone said.
| acted as Russian plenip0tentiaries in
| the cor ference which resulted in this
agreement, and Baran de Staal desarv.
ed to have it stated that L ord Gran
| vile, the Earl OF Kimberly. II. Lessar
and himself had agreed to draft an
| agreement, and the Baron de Staal had
forward ed it to Russia, giving it his
support.
| GENERAL KOMARoFF's latest dispatch
es between the Russians and Afghans,
near Pepjdeh, reiterate with fuller de-
tails his earlier accounts of the affair.
He says the Afghans sent q haunting
message to the Russians, declaring that
''they would trash the Russians as they
had trashed the English" The Afghans,
General KomaroH again insists, fired
| the first shot, and SO were responsible
for bringing on the engagement. Gem
eral Komaraf says he learned from
prisoners who were captured "a the bat
tie that the Afghan leaders had ordered
the Sariks to furnish a contingent of