Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28

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rest of the parliamentary session anC
/ 60 far to prejudice their chances for
success IN the general election.
The report is reiterated that Prince
| Bismarck initiated the pressure which
induced the khedive to refund the
per cents on Egyptian bonds The
reason that actuated the chancellor is
said to have been desire TO see Eng
land assume
A PRoTECTORATE OVER EGYPT,
with reinstatement Of Ismail Pashs
as ruler. He Is Acknowledged bv
nearly every statesman il, Europe to
be the only man entirely capable O.
effectively dealing with the E.y Ian
government.
In return for Bismafck's support
this POLICY 1t is said that England is
support jennings colonization enter
prise IN East Africa and elsewhere.
1t would not be surprising if the pres
ent special conference now gong on
at Berlin Between Lord Rosenberry
and the lord of the privy seal OF Eng
land, and Prince Bismarck, who re-
turned from Schoenhousen specially
to meet Lord Rosenberg. have beer
arranged for the purpose Of adiustina
! the terms of the
NEW ANGLO GERMAN EGYPTIAN POLICY.
The Indian government proposes,
| with the loan Of fifty million dollar
sanctioned by parliament to rapid.
strengthen the railways of India 70
both commercial and military ser
vices. There will be expended ten
and one-haf million dollars in the
construction of railway west of tbs
Indus, ten million dollars TO be lait
| out IN building another railway on III,
east side of the Indus, including
ferry across that river, two millions
| to be used In the building Of bridges,
one million to be spent in the con
struction of another road on the west
| Persian plateau, and one million will
be expended in still another line ives
of the Indus.
Official reports concerning the In
dia wheat crop prospects Indicate, if
| the present anticipations be realized.
that there will be a smaller
DEMAND FOR AMERICAN WHEAT
/ tulS duLuluu buau lash year.
Victor Hugo wished his body to be
| buried beside the remains of his wife
and daughter, in the little grave yar0
of the parish church of Vile Queir,
on the right bank of the river Seine,
| half way between Rouen and Havre.
His wish will be carried out unless
the government Of France, to which
Hugo left entire control of the ques-
ton of his burial, decide to have the
poets remains inferred in the Pan
theon.
In the chamber of deputies this af>
tern0on, Florrelle delivered an elO-
quent eulogy upon Hugo. Theyso,
the French prime minister, proposed
a grant by the state of 4 600 francs to
defray the ordinary expenses of HUI
COS funeral. The proposal WAS at
once adopted by the deputies by vote
of AS toys. Laforge moved that the
Pantheon be secularized in order that
Hugo may be buried there. The ur-
gency Of this motion was voted for
by aballot of 229 to ia
The minister of the interior asked
the deputies to postpone the vote on
the previous question until the next
sitting of the chamber, The minis
ter's motion was referred to a commit
tee, and the chamber adjourned until
Tuesday, as a mark of respect to the
dead poet.
The senate subsequently approved
the vote of 1000 francs for the funeral
expenses. The funeral of Hugo viii
occur next Friday.
From Vienna comes the intelligence
that the Austrian government is draft
ing bill for the state's recognition of
the Anglican church, which hitherto
has been only tolerated IN Austria.
Private letters from Posen and Silesia
describe the present expulsion by
Germany, at Russia's request, of Rus
sian Poles from their provinces, as
being attended by the most
CRUEL AND HEART RENDING INCIDENTS.
Many OF the Poles who are Bow beng
driven out have been settlers in Ger
man territory for many years, and had
thoroughly identified themselves VITA
it's interests. The most of them went
to Pesen and Cilesia to escape from
their intolerable despotism. The de
crees of expulsion issued by Won Put
kamer, German minister Of the in
terror, affects about 80, 900 Poles, resi-
dent in Germany. Eight thousand of
these have already been arrested with
out warning and conducted to the
German frontier by Russian troops.
The remainder Of the 100000
ordered out of the empire consists of
those who had obtained permits of
settlement. The decree of expulsion
gives them short respite ia order to
allow them to settle up their affairs
and dispose Of their property and
otherwise prepare for extradltioH.
WHOLE VILLAGES
Have already been depopuIated and
their refugee inhabitants turned over
to the Russian authorities at the Ger
man frontier
Numbers Of the poor Poles are fee
ing into Austria to escape enforced reA
turn to the land Of their birth. The