Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-24
FOREIGN.

The black plague in Portugal caused
many deaths.
A congress of Zionists assembled at
Basic, Switzerland.
The entire Newfoundland coast is
blockaded with ice foes.
A crushing defeat is reported sus-
tanned by the Santo Domingo revolu-
tionists.
The car felictates himself and
Russia upon the hold he has secured
in China.
A supposed anarchist in Paris shot
and wounded three men in a street dis
turbance.
The shooting Of Labori, Capt. Drey-
fus' counsel, was the result of we'll
laid plot
Operations of the revolutionists in
San Domingo have started a panic in
Puerto Plata.
The battle in France between the
friends and foes Of the republic has
begun in earnest.
In Paris Alfred Behrend, an Ameri-
can exporter has been created a Knight
Of the Legion of Honor.
In London the lord mayor has open
ed a fund for the relief of the victims
of the West Indian hurricane.
The government of Baden has for
hidden demonstrations in honor Of the
victims Of the rebellion of 1S49.
Gertrude Stockton, an American girl,
called the queen of artists models in
Tic o.
Friends of Dreyfus fear that the
members of the court-martial have
already made up their minds to decide
against the prisoner.
The Canadian parliament granted
S6,000,0O0 for new railways, which are
to form transcontinental line in op-
position to the Canadian Pacific.
The outlook for war between Great
Britain and the Transvaal is regarded
as much graver. Sir Frederick Walker
has been appointed British commander
in south Africa.
Seven thousand dollars in bank bills
were stolen from the Canadian Pacific
railway station at Toilette, Que This
is the third time in three years that
the station has been robbed
The French schooner Paueboto was
sunk in collision off Lowestoft, Eng,
by the steamer Hercules, and five per
sens were drowned. The steamer
rescued the remainder of the crew.
According to the latest advices re-
ceived at Valparaiso, Chill, all bust
ness in that section has been para
lyzed by fresh storms and the sailing of
all steamers will be delayed several
days.
The annual congress and festival OF
the Cooperative Society of Great
Britain opened at the crystal palace.
The principal feature was the delivery
of the presidential address of Rev.
DR.. George c. Lorimer of Boston.
1t has just been made public in Lon
don that Mrs. Lily Langtry was mar
ried, July y at st. Saviour's, Jersey,
to Hugo Germald de Battle, heir to a
baronetcy. The father of young De
Battle is reported to be greatly upset
over his sons marriage.
NJ. Labori, chief counsel of Dreyfus, |
was shot in the back by an assassin at |
at Rhennes. His condition is critical. |
late bulletins indicate a |
slight Improvement The Dreyfus |
court-martial lacked the sensational |
scenes expected, all concerned being
depressed by the attempted assassina-
ton. Guerin, the anti-Semite leader
besieged in his own house by the Paris
police, still holds out, threatening
Heath to. anybody who tries to break
t. Dreyfus has requested an ad-
iournment Of his trial until Monday,
when he expects that his counsel,
Maitre Labor, may be able to ap-
pear. Labori is pronounced out OF
hanger and has been removed to the
house Of Prof. Basch for treatment.