Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-11
FOREIGN.

William Redmond is seriously i'll.
The kaiser may visit the Paris expo
sition.
Deaths in London last year were
SS214
The French nationalists are gaining
ground.
French manufacturers want a high
duty on automobiles.
NJ. Max Nordaus mother died. She
was nearly 81 years old.
Princess Salm Salm is going to south
Africa as an army nurse.
Figaro favors an increase of the Ger
man fleet as a check to England
France follows Italy and Belgium
and says IS o'clock instead of 1 p. m.
Novoe Vremya says that Russian oc
cupation of Port Arthur hampers do
nestle policy.
The French senate found Deroulede
guilty of conspiracy with extenuating
circumstances.
Mexican scientists predict severe
earthquakes in America in the next
few months.
Rev. Geo. Buckle, father of George
Earle Buckle, editor of the London
(England) Times, died.
Separate kiosk buildings will be
erected at the Paris exposition for
Cuba and NAVAL.
Grand Duke Constantine has trans
lated Hamlet and will act part in
St. Petersburg theater.
The plebiscite of the Mexican repub-
lie is unanimously in favor of Presi-
dent Diaz's reelection.
The gold yield for 1899 in New South
Wales was 500, AIS ounces. an increase
of 1853, 1925 ounces over 1898.
Opposition to the French-American
commercial treaty has developed in the
chamber of deputies at Paris.
In London Frank Sheppard of the
American variety team of Wood and
Sheppard died from pneumonia
A combination of furniture manufac-
turers has been organized at Toronto
with a capital of SO, 000,000
The British steamer Borghese from
Glasgow foundered off Cape Finistere.
Twenty-one of the crew were drowned.
Pope Leo XIII is said to have desig-
mated Cardinal Gotti, head of the bare
foot Carme1ite order, as his successor.
France is threatened with a coal
famine The government will distrib-
ute 10000 tons in different industries
in Lyons.
Douglass B. Woodwork, member of
the Canadian parliament for fifteen
years, died from injuries received in
runaway.
In Vienna one of the animal keepers
at the geological gardens entered a
cage of six lions, in a spirit of bravado,
and was torn to pieces.
Francis Schandhorst, who for many
years was the chief organizer and adj
wiser of the British liberal party, died
in London in his sixtieth year.
The Gillian congress having ap-
proved the renewal of the CHILEAN
claims commission, action has made
the revival an accomplished fact.
While Richard Croker, the Tammany
boss" was mounting his horse in
London, his foot slipped from the stir
rup and he fell, breaking his left leg.
Camille Flammarion, the noted
French astronomer, has made a public
statement showing that the twentieth
century does not begin until Jan. l,
1901.
The award of the Swiss tribunal in
the claims against Portugal. arising
out of the seizure of the Delogoa bay
railroad, will not be determined for
six months or a year.
Under the new Austrian currency
laws, the form and kreuzer disappear.
The new unit is the krone, equalling
half a kreuzer After the introduction
of the gold standard the krone will be
worth one franc five confines
In the municipal elections in Toron-
to province the following mayors
were chosen: Toronto, E. A. McDon-
aid; Hamilton, J. Y. Teebel Brantford,
M. Cockshutt; Kingston, James Min
sess; Belleville, J. W. Johnson: Brock
vile, E. A. Buchanan; st. Catharines,
H. Y. Heating; Windsor, John Davis;
st. Thomas, P. .Meehan.