Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
FOREIGN.

Two of the mahdi's sons were killed
by British soldiers.
At Oporto one new severe case Of
bubonic plague and three mild cases
were officially reported.
The anniversary of Goethe's birth
was celebrated elaborately at Frank
| fort-on-the-Ma Germany.
The real cause of the San DOMINICAN
| revolution, it is said, is the desire for
a protectorate by the United States.
Prince Hohenlohe announced in the
Prussian diet that the government ad-
! hered steadfastly to the canal project.
Mail advices from Yokohama say
that the night of Aug. II a densely pop
ulated square mile Of the native town
of Yokohama was burned, with a loss
Of 16 lives and from S5,000,000 to
$6,0OO,O0O of property.
| The Brazilian police have discovered
that a young girl dynamiter has left
| Santos to wreck buildings of the Paris
! exposition.
| Lord Kitchener, at the opening Of
the Atbara bridge, Egypt, said its con-
struction by Americans in a short time
showed real grit
! During a thunderstorm the sultan of
Morocco recently had a narrow escape,
an electric bolt killing several people
who were standing a few feet from lis
majesty.
Several well-knoWn war correspond
! ents representing English newspapers
at Rennes have received instructions to
| hold themselves in readiness to start
for the Transvaal on "a hours notice.
According to reliable reports re-
ceived from Chilli, property valued at
more than $1,5O0,000 has been de-
stroyed during the severe storms that
have swept the country during the last
fortnight
Suspicious cases of fever have oc-
Cured at Orizaba, Mexico, and it is be-
lieved to be yellow fever. 1t is con-
sidered extraordinary that yellow fever
should have reached town at so high
a level above the sea.
An eminent Mexican lawyer belong
ing to the conservative party publishes
in the clerical organ, FL TEMPO, an
elaborate plan for the alliance of all
Latin American republics in a league
for mutual protection.
The empress dowager Of China has
recalled her emissaries to Japan in dis
grace for openly showing the empress
autograph, meant alone for the eyes
of the mikado, in order to impress the
Importance Of their mission.
DR.. Campos Sales, president of
Brazil, says that Brazil wi take part
in the pan-American exhibition in Buff
falo. General Roca, president of the
Argentine republic. will pay visit to
the United States on the same occasion.
The officials Of the British colonial
Office say no advances have been made
by France looking to the abandonment
of the Newfoundland treaty and fishing
rights That France would do so with
out a quid pro quo is said to be utterly
improbable
Andriano Grullon, agent Of the Do
minican revolutionists in New York,
has received a cablegram claiming
complete victory for the Jiminez cause.
The revolutionists established a pro-
visional government and declare the
capital has gone over to them.
Advices from Guatemala state that
the agency Of the Kosmos line of
steamers has made the announcement
there that the steamer Tanis, leaving
Hamburg on Sept. Is, will inaugurate
a service to San Francisco via Central
American and Mexican ports in coupe-
tition with the Pacific Mail Steamship
company's service.