Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-21

the world, is dead in London He was
100 years old.
Sir John Millais. president of the |
Royal Academy, is reported to be suf- /
fering from cancer of the throat.
The pope received in audience Right
Rev. NJ. F. Howley, bishop of ST. Johns.
n. F.
Transvaal reform leaders were SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment, and
the sentences of the others We're re-
duced.
Captain-General Weyler asked the
Madrid government TO approve the
sentence of death imposed on the Com
petitor filibusters.
Spanish Liberals announced their
purpose to support the government
Cuban policy as declared in the speech
from the throne
The doctors strike at Rotterdam has
assumed an ugly aspect The civic
guard, police and marines have been
called out to protect. the workers.
Germans of Samoa object to the chief
justice, an American. They pay two
thirds of the taxes and say they are
entitled to judge who speaks Ger
man.
The Abyssinians have liberated the
Italians who were made prisoners at
Agama, and it is stated that Ras Man
gascia will liberate the rest within a
week
A dispatch from Constantinoplc says
that the work of the agents of the
American Red Cross society in reliev-
ing distress in Asiatic Turkey has been
very successful.
Princess Christian of Schleswig-Ho
at her own request, appointed patro-
ness of the New York School of Applied
! Design for Women
Two sealing vessels belonging to
Bonne Bay, N F., are supposed to
have been lost in the Straits of Belle
Isle. The crews of the vessels aggre-
gate in number forty rlen
/ In an engagement at Movene the
Matabeles maintained a hot fire for 10
minutes. Cecil Rhodes and Capt. Met
calfe were we'll to the front throughout
the engagement. The natives retired.
. The relchstag adopted proposal to
/ fix the total output of sugar for the
/ coming year at 100000 double cent
ners, instead of 100000 double cent
ners, as proposed by the government.
! Advices from Havana state that in
the recent action between Antonio
Maceo and Gen. Ynclan, in the Pinar
del Rio, 400 Spaniards were killed,
while the Cuban leader, was killed in
this battle.
! II addition to the two infantry regi-
ment ordered from India to Suakim
| for garrison duty, a regiment of caval-
ry, a mountain battery and a detach-
ment of engineers will proceed as soon
as possible to Africa.
In the house of commons Sir Matthew
White Ridley said he was convinced
that the right course had been adopted
in the Mrs Maybrick matter, and,
therefore, he would not appoint a com
mission of inquiry.
A dispatch to the Pail Mall Gazette
from BuluwayO says that Capt. Ma
piers column, on Tuesday last, while
on its way to escort Cecil Rhodes COL
umn, had skirmish with and repulsed
the Matabele tribesmen.
Mrs. Maybricks last hope is gone.
The case has now been before three
chiefs of the home office-Sir Matthew
White Ridley has been quite as de-
cisive in his refusal to offer relief as
either of his predecessors.
General Weyler declares that he is
unable to go ON with the war in Cuba
because of the intermeddling of Ameri-
cans in Cuban affairs. The Madrid
authorities have decided to postpone
executing the Competitor prisoners.
AT Budapest the university, in COM
memOratiOn of the millennium celebra-
ton, has been authorized by the En-
peror Francis Joseph to confer tine hon
orary degree of doctor of medicine ON
DR.. John Shaw Billings, of Philadel-
phia.
train loaded with troops, destined
for the island of Madagascar, collided
between Adelia and Vesoulbe- Imam,
Aigiers, with another train. Five Off
GERS were killed and three officers.
three soldiers and the crew of the train
were injured
According to the official returns, the
French customs receipts for the first
four months of 1896 show increases in
imports to the amount of 167, 000,0 900
francs and of exports to the sum of
100000 francs as compared with the
same period of 1895
The 25th anniversary of the signing
OF the treaty of Frankfort, which con-
cluded the Franco-Prussian war, was
celebrated in continuation of the fetes
and celebrations which have been held
throughout Germany in commemora-
ton of the 25th anniversary of the
events of the war.
The divorce suit of Mrs Watt against
her husband, Hugh Watt, formerly a
member of parliament from Glasgow,
on the grounds of cruelty and miscon-
duct, is exciting much attention in
England. Watt denies his wife's al
legations and asserts that she for
months denied him marital relations.