Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-02-11
ABROAD.

A new Instruction is brewing in
! Crete.
Prince Bismarck is reported to be
unusually well.
Martini, inventor of the rife bearing
| his name, died in Switzerland
The representatives of fifteen sugar
factories in Germany have formed a
trust.
The success of Villedieu Chassagne,
of Paris, in photographing in coIors is
announced.
The selection of Lyman J. Gage OF
Chicago as Secretary of the treasury is
well received in London.
Sir Thomas Spencer Wells, Bart,
M. D., the famous English surgeon,
died in Cannes, France, aged 70 years.
Several London papers say the SEN
ate amendments to the Anglo-Amer-
lean arbitration treaty leave the treaty
valueless.
The dominion cabinet at Ottawa has
appointed delegation to go to Wash
ington to discuss the question of recip-
rocity and the alien labor law.
The earl of Kinnoull died in London,
aged 70 years. He will be succeeded
by his eldest son, Lord Hay, we'll
known Anglo-Egyptian officer.
The North German Lloyds announce
that the Spanish government has es-
tablished war tax for all passengers
landing or departing from Spanish
ports.
The Right Hon. Sir George o. Ire
velyan, who was secretary for Scotland
in Lord Roseberrys cabinet, has re-
signed from parliament on account Of
ill-health.
The French chamber Of deputies
adopted the article Of the sugar bill
fixing a sugartaX of nine francs on i'm
ports Of raw sugar and ten francs on
refined sugar.
President Kruger of the South Afri-
can Republic says he would like a defin-
tie statement from Mr. Chamberlain
as to what promises the president has
failed to keep.
The British house of commons has
authorized a loan of $27, 900 for a
scheme Of military defense, one feature
of which is the building of forts on
the hills around London.
The London Mark Lane Express says
it is surprised at the decline of prices
in the United States, and remarks that
the definite crop returns of 1896 do not
warrant any depression.
Captain Sinclair, a liberal, was
elected to parliament from Forfarshire,
England, to succeed ]. M. White, liberal
of the firm of J. F. White, of New York,
who recently resigned.
According to a lettel sent to the
senate, Captain-General Weyler told
Consul Williams he would shoot every
American conspirator found with arms,
regardless of consequences.
Mrs. Carew has been sentenced to
death in Yokohama, Japan, for the
murder of her husband by poison,
Walter Raymon Hallowell Carew, sec
rotary Of the Yokohama United club.
1t is rumored in Rome that Cardinal
Satolli will be appointed project of the
propaganda, replacing Cardinal Led
ochowsky, who succeeds the late Car
dinal Bianchi as pro-datary of the pope.
Joseph chamberlain, British secretary
of state for the colonies, in a speech
at Birmingham England, said that
even though the United States Senate
rejected the arbitration treaty with
England, the negotiations themselves
could not fail to have a beneficial eff
feet
Bishop John ]. Keane, formerly rec
tor of the Catholic university at Wash
ington, and who was recently appointed
bishop assistant at the pontifcal throne
il Rome, and who was later made con-
sultor to the Congregations of the |
Propaganda and Studies, has been ap-
pointed canon of St. John Lateran.