Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-27
CABLE CULLINGS.

The marchioness of Salisbury is dy-
ing.
The car admires Dewey but not
Otis.
Eugene Staub of Baltimore was
killed by fall in Switzerland.
At Rome Signor S. Costantini, under
secretary Of public instruction, died of
heart disease.
Ex-King Milan Of Servia is said to
nave planned the recent attempt upon
his own life.
Rudyard Kipling's right thumb has
been bitten by dog and is con-
siderably inf1amed.
DR.. Allis, president Of the American
Presbyterian mission, died at Val
paraiso, Chilli.
The volksraad of the south African
republic passed the seven-years
franchise proposal.
Count Esterhazy has again confessed
that he wrote the bordereau which
convicted Dreyfus.
Chief Justice Chambers, of the
Samoa supreme court, has sent his
resignation to President Mckinley.
Capt. Andrews, who tried to cross
the Atlantic in a small boat, was
picked up exhausted 700 miles from
Ireland.
Fighting occurred July 4 in the So
fata district between Samoan chiefs
and four were killed and three
wounded.
The Russian wheat crop indicates a
shortage Of from 5000, 900 to 100000
900 bushels, compared with last years
production.
The French cabinet decided to hush
up the Dreyfus scandal In the event
Of the acquittal of Dreyfus, which
seems certain
It has been found that the peace
! conferences first committee did not,
as was supposed, prohibit the use of
explosive bullets.
Frenchmen and Italians at Aubagne
and Canea INDUCED in street fights.
Two Of each were killed and several
seriously wounded.
By new treaties with the United
States and with most of the other
civilized nations Japan opens her COM
, merce to the world.
Capt. Alfred T. Mahan has decided
to withdraw his proposal at the inter-
national peace conference to extend
| the Geneva convention to naval war
The British government VIII sub
sidize a line Of steamships to develop
trade between Canada and the West
Indies and Great Britain and the West
Indies
Advices from Corea state that in
Seoul bomb explosion took place in
the house formerly occupied by Prince
PAX, two Coreans being killed. Other
bombs were thrown elsewhere.
The subcommittee of the arbitra-
ton section of the peace conference
adopted resolution that the per-
manent court of arbitration should
consist of the ministers to Holland in
stead of the ministers resident at the
Hague
Despite strenuous efforts to secure
reprieve, including an appeal to the
queen, Mary Ann Ansell, who was con-
victed Of numbering her sister, an
inmate Of an insane asylum, by send
ing her poisoned cake, was hanged at
st. Adams, Eng.
The British Medical Journal sug-
gests that every European country
send medical expeditions into the east
where the bubonic plague has made its
appearance, to study the disease, say
ing that it is blind folly to imagine
that Europe is safe from it.
At Buenos Ayers the minister of
finance proposes to reduce the taxes
ca foreign insurance companies from
10 to 5 per cent, raising those on
Argentine corporations from to 5
per cent. The Italian minister to
Buenos Ayers is dead after two days
illness.
At Molde Norway, Emperor William
OF Germany spent an hour with How
ard Gould on board Of latter's yacht
Niagara. On leaving Mode, on board
the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, the
emperor waved his cap at the Hohen-
zollern's foremost. The Niagara LETT
the harbor shortly after the departure
of the German emperor.
mysterious epidemic which has
been prevailing recently among the
cattle on the island Of Gothland
Sweden, has spread to the human be-
ings, in the district, and a large num-
Der of patients have been admitted to
the hospitals. Some OF the cases are
extremely difficult to diagnose. Cat
tie are dying by hundreds throughout
the island as result of the epidemic
The present session of the New
foundland legislature closed. No leg
islation has been passed continuing
the existing arrangement by which
the French maintained the right to
take Holsters on the treaty coast. The
failure to re-enact the measure now
in force renders it certain that
trouble will occur between the fisher
men Of the two nations when the next
fishing season opens