Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
FOREIGN.

William Black, the novelist, died in
London.
Harcourt resigns as leader of the
English liberals.
French deputies had free fight
over the Dreyfus-Picquart case
1t is believed that England will hold
Crete permanently as she did Egypt.
The Peruvian congress has closed its
sessions amid a stormy political out
look.
Kaiser Wilhalm's rule was severely
criticised in the reichstag by Herr
Richter
The bruce coffin is to be opened soon
to decide who is the rightful duke Of
Portland.
The sultan promises to pay the in
demnity losses during the American
massacres soon.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria,
it Is reported, is to marry Princess Is
abelle of Orleans.
Mgr Antonio Conte Renter, former
private secretary of Pope Plus TX,
died in New York.
Reports from central Africa say that
four Belgian traders were killed and
eaten by the natives.
The pope has decided that the Span
ish policy of the vatican shall be anti
Carlist and not neutral.
LIE Soir Of Paris says the French
government has decided to bring
Dreyfus back to Paris.
Picquarts release is still delayed,
owing to the judicial bubbles between
the civil and military authorities.
1t is definitely announced that Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is be-
trothed to Prince William of Wied.
German iron and steel manufacture
ers fear American competition will
crowd them out of European markets
Baron Won Bulow, in a speech in the
Reichstag On foreign affairs, said Ger
many was true to the triple alliance
The prince of Wales has been asked
to rededicate the new Victoria bridge
at Montreal. He dedicated the old one
in 1860.
England will squeeze France on the
Niger and Madagascar questions in or
der to get her to surrender her sta
lions on the Newfoundland shore.
A rumor is current at Berlin tina;
the great powers concerned have
agreed to a German occupation Of the
Samoan islands, beginning with Upola
At meeting in Paris of religious
society of which he is president, thl
British Ambassador, Sir Edmund Mon
son, took occasion to express his great
sympathy for France and his profound
conviction that she would unite her
self with England and the United
States for progress and civilization.
Further evidence Of the strained re
lations between Great Britain and
France is afforded by the action of the
British admiralty in distributing cir
| culars all around the island of New
| Foundland, inviting fishermen to en-
roll themselves in the naval reserve
| for which special inducements are
| offered.
The special dispatches from Berlin
and Madrid give conflicting reports
regarding the Carolines, the former
declaring that the negotiations for the
purchase of the islands are at tht
| point of completion; while the latter
| deny that Germany is negotiating fo1
the Carolines and assert that SpaiI
has decided to keep the archipelago.
At the last meeting of the board o
| governors of McGill university, Lore
| S+ratboona appouoopd his Intention n
e0dowing the new Victoria college fo
women, which he built at a cost o
S250,000, to the amount Of S1,000,000
w. C. Mcdonald, the millionaire to
bacco man, who has given several mil
lions to the university, also announced
that he intedned endowing the chat
of history and arts in the faculty.