Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-13
FOREIGN.

Russia buys war supplies in Ameri-
ca.
Spain raises the embargo on Cuban
tobacco.
The Marquis Ito is forming a new
Japanese cabinet.
The Spanish government decided not
to prosecute Weyler.
Thirty five Mexicans were drowned
by mine being flooded.
The new colonial ministry of Cuba
was sworn in at Havana.
Japanese enthuse over the prospec-
tive alliance with England.
A false report of Prince Bismarck's
death was published in London.
Gen. Julio Sanguilly was not allowed
to land in Cuba and continued to Next
CO.
The mutilated body of General Sir
Henry Havelock-Allan has been found
in India.
1t is reported that gold deposits of
great richness have been found in
Labrador.
The embargo on exports of tobacco
of Marshal Blanco.
C~H7a refuses to agree to a foreign
control of the internal revenue in order
to obtain British loan.
1t is thought in Paris that the will of
DR.. Thomas w. Evans, the American
dentist, will not be set aside.
The total number of persons killed
by the fall of a floor of the London
| Cont city hall Monday was 25.
! M. Teylow, Russian councillor of
state, has been appointed consul-gen-
eral for Russia at New York.
| Lady Anne Coventry, daughter of
the earl of Coventry, was married to
Prince Dhuleep Singh, in London.
The British government modifies it's
permission for the taking of food sup
i plies to the Klondike free of duty.
The sixieth anniversary of the pope's
| first mass was celebrated in Rome Sat-
urday. He appeared in good health.
A dispatch received in Paris from
Cairo announces that French eXpedi-
ton has occupied Fashoda, ON the Nile.
A compromise has been effected by
which the British and Russian customs
agents will work the Corean customs
| together.
The London Times declares that
England policy is to maintain the
| Chinese empire as a field for the eX-
! terror trade.
The Cuban revolutionists invaded
| MatanZas province and are again
credited with contemplating an attack
upon Havana.
The Rothschilds are reported to be
financing a company to supply Great
| Britain with oil, in competition with
! the Standard company.
DR.. Schenk of Vienna is reported to
have discovered the secret of exercis-
| ing an influence over animals and men
SO far to fix the sex of their offspring
War between Costa RIGA and Mica
ragua is threatened as result of the
court-martialing of Consul Busche, of
Costa RIGA, at the Nicaraguan capital,
The London Evening News reports
that negotiations for Chinese loan of
f16,O00,000, guaranteed by the British
government, are practically concluded.
A special cablegram from Pekin con-
tains an interview with Lii Hung
Chang, in which he condemns Ger
many's action in forcibly occupying
| Chinese territory.
pondn and othar birb
| ish officials in Cuba are reported to be
| greatly disheartened at the poor pros
| pect of establishing Spanish authority
on the island.
Bread riots have occurred in the
province Of Girgenti, Sicily. The riot
ers fired upon and looted the municipal
| building, and troops have been called
| out
| The stars and stripes are said to
| have been hauled down by Mexican
marines on Clipperton island, in the
Pacific, and the Mexican flag substi-
| trted.
| E. P. Alexander, the arbitrator ap-
pointed by President Cleveland to set
tie the boundary differences between
Costa Rica and Nicaragua, has made
award No. 2" in favor of Costa Rica.
1t is announced in Berlin that China
has yielded to the demand of the Ger
n an ambassador at Pekin for the dis
mlssal OF the commandant of the Chin
csc garrison at Tsro-Chow for using
threatening language to German mis-
s1onaries there.