Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-06
FOREIGN.

Thomas Joseph Byrnes, premier Of
Queensland, is dead.
The pope fayors the annexation Of
the Philippines to the United States.
The Hispano-American peace COM
mission held its first meeting in Paris.
Gen. Wade, instead of Gen. Lee, will
probably command the troops sent to
| Havana.
Chaplain Mcintyre of the Oregon
| is being court martialed for talking
TOO much.
Major-Gen. W. H. Graham has re-
| tired from the regular army under the
age limit.
Paul Deroulede announced that he
| will revive the French League OF
Patriots.
President Errazuriz Of Chill has
suffered a paralytic shock, but his
condition is improving.
! At Lima, Peru Senior Jose R. Puento
was named for minister of war and
took the oath of Office.
Capt J. G. Blaine has returned to
! the United States from Honolulu, by
| OIutl VI luC Wal uSpdl ILuSuI
Esterhazy's latest confession is re-
garded in London as an effort to re-
gain favor in the French army.
Danger of a Franco-English war
over Fashoda, on the White Nile, is
+, past. The place is a British post.
| Secretary Alger says the soldiers
! themselves were largely responsible
for the bad condition of their camps.
Emperor William, in an address at
the opening of the new harbor at
Stettin, said, Our future lies on the
water"
General Lawton's latest report
shows 1000 sick in the army at San
tiago and four deaths on Septem
Der 25
It is considered certain in Washing
ton that some European power is
backing Spain in the Philippine ne
| gotiations.
Edhem Pasha, the Turkish military
governor of Crete, has been recalled
and Cheika has been appointed to
succeed him.
! The eruption Of Vesuvius is in
creasing in violence, and it is feared
that it will assume the proportions of
that of 1872.
The Italian government, in a note
to the car, suggests that he limit
the discussions of his proposed peace
conference strictly to the question of
disarmament.
A preliminary session of the British
! Venezuelan court of arbitration will
be held in Paris in January, when
postponement will probably be ar
ranged until May.
A dispatch from st. Louis, Senegal,
states that Soudanese sharpshooters
in the French service defeated an
army of Sofas, under one Of Samory's
chiefs, capturing 5000 men.
| Sir John V. Moore, alderman of the
city of London and senior partner of
the Moore Brothers, leather mer-
chants, was elected lord mayor of
London to succeed Horatio David
| Davies.
1t is reported that the pope has re-
quested the Catholic bishops and
clergy of France, as we'll as the cleri-
cal newspapers, to discontinue their
campaign against revision of the
| Dreyfus trial.
The Colombian government has
reconsidered the decree recently is
sued seyering diplomatic relations
with Italy, and the British minister
! is now recognized as representing
Italian interests there in the absence
Of the Italian minister.
1t is semi-off1cially announced in
! Vienna that if the Turkish govern
ment replies Unfavorably to the de-
mands Of the powers respecting Crete,
which must be complied with by Oc-
tober II, the powers will blockade GER
tain places in Crete by land and sea.
i The report that the work OF the Red
Cross society in Guanabacoa is to be
discontinued causes grave apprehen-
sion, as the society's dispensary has
+ been the means of saving many lives
and of relieving much sickness and
want in that suburb, which is es-
pecially poor and needy.
! At a meeting of the American Pub
lie Health association, the executive
; recommended that the governments
4 VI CLAISN CGCGCo, SdLdNC IAN N1SAICO
/ be requested to make the Bertillon
+ system Of classification Of diseases
the basis of mortality statistics of
j the census Of 1900 and 1901.
! An imperial edict has been issued
at Picking expressing regret at the
emperor's increasing i'll health and
commanding the governors of all pro-
vinces to send their best physicians to
Picking.
At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Spanish bank in Havana,
is was resolved to advance to the city
$4,000 in silver on account Of taxes
for the present six months term
! The city officials are making an eff
fort to induce the bank to loan the
amount in gold instead of silver.
The Red Cross society's steamer Co
! NAL has arrived at Matanzas and the
! commissioners appointed Maj Mis-
! kern and Capt. Niles a committee to
distribute the supplies brought by
! the steamer. Capt.-Gen. Blanco has
! ordered the Matanzas authorities to
cooperate with the committee of
distribution in every possible way.
! HORSELESS CARRIAGES.