Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
CABLE CULLINGS.
>oreans engage in rioting.

Koreans engage in rioting
China is to have another railway.
Students and police fight at Buda-
pest.
Adelina PATHS wedding is to take
place in ebruary.
The condition of the emperor OF
China is said to be precarious.
OBrien's Life of Parnell has caused
strike in the United Kingdom.
Sir George Smyth Baden Powell, an
eminent British political economist
and statesman, is dead.
President Gutierrez, of Salvador, is
IN Honduras organizing an expedition
to crush the revolution in his country.
France and Italy yesterday conclud-
ed commercial treaty allowing fay
Ored treatment for all dutiable goods
except silks.
There is comment in London on the
fact that Colonel Macdonald, who,
some say, saved the battle of Omdur-
man, has received no decoration from
the queen.
Prince Henri d'Orleans, in a letter
says that had France needed his ad-
vice the Fashoda humiliation would
have been avoided.
Late advices from Papan states that
ten thousand or more fishermen living
ON Etrup, northern Japan, are on the
verge of starvation.
H. Harvey Saith of Toronto, Ont, is
dead at Idaho Springs, Colo. He was
SO years old and was son of Sir
Frank Saith of Toronto.
Spain is reported to be trying to
raise loan of 1OO,OO0,O00 francs in
France on the security of the Spanish
Northern Railway system.
Rev. Dr. Kane, rector of Christ
church, Belfast, and grand master of
the Belfast Orangemen, died at Bel
fast, Ireland, from a stroke of apo
plexy.
/ Sir John Fowler, who built a re-
markable bridge over the firth of
Forth, near Edinburgh, is dead. He
was born in 1917 and knighted for his
achievement in 1890.
The Kolniscne Zeitung in an article
supposed to be inspired, advocates an
absolute prohibition of the improta-
ton of sausage. This advice is aimed
at the American market.
The French government has ordered
that Captain Dreyfus be allowed to ex-
ercise six hours daily on Devils Is
land, and has otherwise moderated the
rigor of his prison rules.
Severe snowstorms, the first of the
season, prevailed over the midlands '
and north Britain, and heavy gales are
sweeping the coasts. Trains and mail
boats have been delayed.
In the Italian Chamber of Deputies
it was stated that the recent visit Of a
French warship to the port of Ra-
heita, on the Strait of Bah Ell Mandab,
had not affected the Italian ownership.
1t is semi-officially announced at
Madrid that the Spanish government
intends to notify the Cuban bond
holders that Spain will not pay the
Cuban debt, which will not be men
toned in the peace treaty.
According to a Paris report the Sc
cret document on which Dreyfus was
convicted was written by Russian
military attache. 1t is now said that
Lie dLCdCIc liz was ucCElf6u ny
agents of Henry or Esterhazy
Prince Henry of Prussia unveiled
the monument to the officers and sail
ors of the German third class cruiser
Tits, which was lost in the typhoon
ON July %, 1896, north of the Shan
Tung promonotory. The ceremony
was very impressive.
The son recently born to the duke
and duchess of Marlborough was baps
tised in the chapel royal, st. James
place, in the presence OIL a fashionable
congregation. The sponsors were the
marquis Of Londonderry, marquis OF
Camden and Lady Blandford.
Captain General Blanco has been
authorized to draw on Paris FOR ST.
000, % in. gold, to be applied in the
payment of the Spanish troops In
Cuba. Ibis amount Is in addition to
the proceeds of the draft for s2,125,000
by the Madrid government on London,
which was sold at Havana last week