Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-06-07
FOREIGN.

Mrs. Gladstone is growing gradually
weaker.
Kipling's new novel is called Kim Of
the Rishti.
The Prince of Wales Diamond Jubi-
lee won the Derby.
Spain is erecting forts under range
of Gibraltars guns.
Sir George Grove, C. B., musical
critic, is dead at London.
Venezuela troops ccrt5red Herman
dez, the revolutionary leader.
Cholera is ravaging the northern
districts of the Bombay presidency
The kaiser may take his children to
see the American circus in Berlin.
The Paris municipal council was Or
ganized with nationalists in control
King Oscar is indisposed and had to
postpone his departure from Lon
don.
Sir Robert Peel is held for trial on
the charge of libeling his brother-in-
law.
The recent imperial wedding in
Japan makes a new era for the women
Of the country.
Cholera is spreading rapidly in
India, killing hundreds of famine
stricken natives.
1t is reported that Japan intends to
seize ground near Massampo, Korea,
for a fortified station.
Tho Duncan Min, teton of +ho ip+or;or
forbade Jews to change their names
without his consent.
Four thousand Moorish cavalry have
left Fee for the oasis of Tablet to re-
sist the French advance.
Castellane's attack on the govern
ment caused a noisy row in the
French chamber Of deputies.
A British force is reported to have
lost heavily in an effort to break the
siege lines at Comassie, Ashanti.
A heavy downpour of rain at Mysore
and scattered showers in other sec
tions of India afford partial relief.
Marquis De Gallifet, French min
lister of war, resigned and General
Andre was appointed in his place.
Gallifet resigned as French minister
of war because of illness and indigna-
ton. General Andree succeeds him.
The cooperation of France and Ger
many in south Africa and China is
cited as proof of harmonious relations.
T. E. Cleveland will represent United
States at the Paris congress for
amelioration of the condition of the
blinL
German agrarians demand that the
bundesrath make the exclusion of can
ned meats and sausage Immediately
effective
Under municipal ownership the
wages of Liverpool street railway en-
ployes have been increased and hours
shortened.
The English Naval Annual says by
the end of the year the English navy
will more than equal France and Ger
many combined.
Russia once more has warned Turkey
that it will not endure the continued
closing of tie Turkish borders to re-
turning Armenians
The car informed the sultan that
he will no longer endure the closing
Of Turkey to Armenian merchants re-
turning from the Caucasus.
American marines from the Newark
are on the way to Tien-Tsin. The au-
thorities at Washington regard the
situation in China as critical.
The American press building at the
Paris exposition was inaugurated. |
The first number of the Paris edition
Of the New York Times appeared.
The Belgian general elections re-
suited in a reduction OF the Catholic |
majority from 102 to So. The social
lists are the gamers by the change.
A special train, with American, |
British, Italian, French, Russian, and |
Japanese troops, left for Picking. |
Friends Of American missionaries are |
worried for their safety.
Tho accounts Of F. ". Peck, COM |
missioner general to Paris, were |
criticised in the senate, the objection
being made especially to s72, o45 for ex-
perts and the large travelling expenses. :