Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-11-24
CABLE CULLINGS.

Salvador has revolution.
Russia has ordered % new torpedo
boat destroyers.
Adelina Patti is engaged 10 marry
Baron Cederstrom of Sweden.
The French government has asked
Dreyfus to prepare a defense.
DR.. Campos Sales, presidents
of Brazil, was installed in the presi-
Dental chair.
The Christians of Crete are celebrat-
ing their deliverance from Turkish
rule.
Berlin semi-ofieial papers announce
that the German army will be gradual
ly increased by $4,000 men.
The French ministry of the colonies
has received a cable dispatch stating
that Dreyfus Is In good health.
The Royal Geographical Society Of
London offers $4,000 TO head a sub
scription for fitting out an Antarctic
expedition.
Ii Hung Chang has been .relegated
to an obscure commission to inquire
into the causes of the overflow of the
Yellow river.
| M. Patenotre, who was formerly
French ambassador at Washington,
has been transferred from Madrid to
| Constantinople.
The London Daily Chronicle says
that the Belgians have captured Bohr,
a dervish post, ninety miles north of
Reiaf, on the White Nile.
Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech at
Manchester, England, said France had
been perpetratfng upon Great Britain
a series of unfriendly acts.
Major Marchand started from Cairo
for Fashoda to withdraw his force
from Egyptian territory 10 a French
harbor on the Gulf of Alden.
Lieut.-Gen. Francis Greenfe1l, in SUI
preme command Of the British force
of occupation in Egypt, has been ap-
pointed governor of Malta,
The earl of Mimic, the new governor
general of Canada, arrived at Quebec,
was sworn in and took charge, Lord
A berdeen leaving for Europe at once
Ernest Terah Hooley, the bankrupt,
testifying in London, said he arranged
with Sir William Marriott to pay
S250,000 for a baronetcy, but failed 10
get it.
The dowager empress of Russia is
said to have concluded another secret
treaty with Russia, by the terms OF
which China is to employ Russian
soldiers for the defense of the Chinese
coast.
Francis de Prosseuse, the we'll
known writer, has been expelled from
the French Legion of Honor because
Of his denunciation of certain officers
for their treatment of Dreyfus.
The civil marriage Of Princess
Eugene, daughter of Prince and
nee Princess Cristina Ruspoli, with
Napoleon, Prince de la Moskowa, was
celebrated at Rome.
a reception was given at South
port, England, to Lord and Lady
CurzOn of kedleston, who will soon
go to India as viceroy and vicereine.
Chakir Pasha and the last Turkish
soldiers left Canea, Crete.
At Rome there is considerable ey-
element over the report that French
warship recently landed an officer and
soldiers at Rahieta in the Danakil
country and re-embarked them only
after protest from Italian officials.
The Berlin Correspondent asserts
that the San Jose scale louise was
found at Hamburg in September and
October in dried and undried Cali
fornia pears and nectarines. The
cOnsignments were seized and re-
exported under official control,
The British foreign officer, in re-
spouse to a memorial from the Birm-
ingham Chamber of Commerce ask
ing that steps be taken to induce the
United States not TO impose protec-
tive duties in Cuba. promised every
effort for protection of British trade.