Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15

the Dukes Of Bedford ana DERBY, pOIn
liberal unionists upon whose support
Salisbury relies TO keep him IN power.
Thus self-inserest May have kept the
premier from recalling the British min
lister from Washington.
MIS-. FRANK LESLIE is responsible for
the declaration that the reign of Paris as
the mistress of fashion is at an end. Lon
don, Mrs Leslie thinks, will hereafter set
the styles for women as well as for men.
From present Indications, however, the
well-known editress is not entirely cor
rect in her estimate, as all OF this sea
sons toilets which have yet been shown
have cor from the Partisan f. whom
makers.
The gambleIs' paradise at Monte Carlo
is in bad way. At an annual meetlng
held there recently it was shown that the
profits for the past year have fallen off to
the extent of $4,000. The profts on
the roulette tables, after paying all e1-
penses, amount to over $1,250,000, but the
tripot considers this very poor business
The trente of quarante has also proved
improbable to the Casino during the past
year and another table will be abolished
this winter. The number of suicides is
shown to have decreased from % to 10.
The latest victim is young Russian lady
who lost all her fortune last week and
then in dspair threw herself into the sea.
Two Of the Irish constabulary placed
upon the stand to identify the speeches
printed in the London Times and quoted
to prove that nationalists have melted
the people TO crime, made some very i'm
portant admissions Thursday upon cross
examination. They said that outrages
were the result of popular distress, and
that this distress was the result of evic-
Iions. OF course Mr.. Parnelrs counsel
are competent to conclude that evictions
are the result of high rent. But more
than that,-the constables admitted that
the old land league was bitterly opposed
by the secret societies and moonl1ghters
If this keeps on, The witnesses of the
Times will furnish Mr.. ParneII all tho
material he neeGs for defense. Capt.
O'Shea gave the nationalist leader clean
bill of health so far as he knew down to
1886, and corrected Attorney-General
Webster's charge that Parnen signed the
anti-murder manifesto after the Phoenix
park assassination under pressure.
THE Germans are having peck of
trouble as a result of their Samoan policy.
It was not such a difficult thing to de-
pose a savage king and transports him to
remote island of the Pacific, but it was
quite another thing to set up an advent
urer who could keep the people in sub
tection. King Malietoa was deposed by
aim being to use the Samoan islands In
the interests OF German commerce
The chief, Tanasese, who was proclaimed
king in the German interest, failed to re-
ceive the support of the natives, and last
August the insurgents began open hos
tilities. They proclaimed Nataafa king
and III the early part of September cap
tured the forts about Apia, the capital
and forced Tamasese to retreat into the
interior. newspaper printed at Apis
calls upon England and the United States
to insist upon a general election fol
choice of ruler and take steps looking
to the complete independence of Samoa
THE president of the "Atlantic and Pa
cific ship canal company" is in London
trying to induce English capitalists TO in
vest S1O0,000,000 in the bonds of the com
pany. This corporation, it may be re
membered, obtained concessions from
Nicaragua in 1S49 TO construct canal
along the route lately surveyed by the
Nicaragua canal company, but the con
cession was afterward withdrawn again
in after years by the Central American
Republic, and now has no rights whatever
in the matter. Bat the company does
not admit the legality of the withdrawal
and is seeking capital to prosecute the
scheme. The Nicaragua company, which
is to be incorporated by the Vermont
Legislature, and probably will be recog
nized in similar way by the general gov
eminent at the next session of Congress
now has the right of way through the
San Juan river and Lake Nicaragua under
later concessions. The sole question is
whether the government of Nicaragua
can be compelled by any court to recog-
1.ize as binding contracts which it now
disavows. This does not seem likely.
The excellent quality of Oil TO be found
in Kentucky in the vicinity of Barren and
Edmonson county has long been known
but no decided attempt has been made to
work the field since the war, because the
owners were financially unable TO operate
it to any extent. Before the war the