Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-19
OTHERS AFFAIRS.

OTHERS AFFAIRS.
Four men were killed and six
wounded in a bread riot in Sholapur,
India.
The president of Brazil, DR..
Prudente G. de Moraes Barros, is Sc
riously i'll.
The Pullman car works at Peter
hoff, Russia, have been almost de-
stroyed by fire.
john Auguste Hugo Gylden, director
of the observatory of Goettingen, died
at the age of As.
Twenty-one duck shooters were
drowned in Spain by a collision of
steamers.
Captain General Weyler has taken
the field in person against the insur-
gents in Cuba under Antonio Maceo.
No rain fell anywhere last week in
the famine districts of India and relief
work has been comm enced on a large
scale.
The cabinet of Chilli has resigned,
owing to the passage through the
sure.
One hundred persons were killed in
Eyerek, Turkey, and nearly all the
Armenian houses in the place were
pillaged.
A new cotton factory is about to be
erected at Orizaba, Mex, at cost of
over 100000, furnished by Euro
pean capitalists.
Official reports from the Philippine
islands are to the effect that the Span
ish forces have won brilliant victory
over the rebels.
Mrs. Walter NJ. Castle, of San Franz
cisco, sentenced to three months
Imprisonment in London for shop
lifting has been released.
The Russian newspapers are making
warm appeals to the people of Russia
to contribute funds for the relief of
the famine sufferers in India.
The filibustering steamer Dauntless
has got away from Florida on it's
fourth expedition to Cuba, carrying a
la1g cargo of arms, ammunition and
supplies.
The Turkish envoy at Paris has as
sured NJ. Hanotarx, the French
premier, that the sultan has decided to
adopt a series of reforms in the treat
ment of Armenians.
The Colombian government has Of
fered a monthly subsidy amounting to
$4,000 to be given to any person who
will establish steam communication
with the coast.
An election for the east divisions of
Bradford resulted in the election of
the conservative candidate, Greville
Keir Hardie, the labor leader, received
1858 votes.
I A cantonal court has ordered the
Bank of St. Gall, Switzerland, to hand
over to the relatives of the wife of the
lOng-missing Archduke John of Aus
tria a million franks deposited by the
archduke prior to his disappearance in
1899.
Owing to the decision of the Belgian
council Of ministers not to submit to
parliament the military reorganiza-
ton scheme drafted by the minister of
war, General Brassine, the latter has
resigned, but his resignation has not
been accepted.
Premier Salisbury has shown his
political sagacity by submitting to
practically the terms demanded by Mr..
Cleveland. The whole Venezuelan
case will be arbitrated by a court of
two Americans, two EngIishmen, and
q fifth to be chosen by these four.
England is sorry that Bayard is to
return to America The St. James
| Gazette says: without rejecting
upon his predecessors, it is safe to say
that no American minister since Low
ell has been SO thoroughly acceptable
to the English people and to London
| society"
| Canada is to have a new tariff, a
commission being at work. Boards of
trade of Winnipeg, and other points in
! the northwest territory, where the
farming element largely predominates,
are in favor of sweeping reduction in
| the tariff. The chief articles they
want cheaper are agricultural nipple
| ments, coal oil and binder twine
! CSftlA tAlule1ldu refugees Sought
| protection on the British merchant
steamship Boyne in the port of
Smyrna. Turks pursued and de-
manded their surrender Admiral
Selfridge, of the United States cruiser
| Minneapolis, threatened to lombard
the port if the fugitives we're inter
| ferred with. The Armenians arrived
here yesterday.
| All the Paris newspapers discuss
the keen contest which is expected in
the chamber of deputies as a result OF
an attack which the opposition in
tends to make upon the government.
The papers agree in saying that tie
Meline cabinet will be strongly as
sailed, and they recognize that its very
existence hangs upon the least Incl
dent.
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