Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-23
FOREIGN.

The prince of'Siam arrived in Paris
Brunswick museum. died.
King Victor Emmanuel III. of Italy
took the constitutional oath.
A London company has plan tc
make fuel OF Thames river mud.
Fifteen Italian detectives are coming
to the United States to shadow anar-
chists.
Germans are growing alarmed at the
boldness Of the kaiser's plans fol
China.
French vine growers prevent hail
storms by bombarding the clouds with
cannon.
Macmillan Harden's Berlin paper
the zukunft, has been confiscated fol
leze majesty.
A epidemic of typhoid fever broke
out in Paris. caused by the low water
in the Seine.
London walters have started a cam
paign for regular pay and against the
tip system.
The sultan Of Turkey ordered a new
telegraph line from India to Con
stantinoDle.
A boy, 10 years old, arrested in
Leipsic, was commissioned to XIII ling
Albert OF SaXOny.
The University of Pennsylvania ex-
petition has discovered the library OF
the great temple at Nippur and has
dug UP 1900 tablets, not one of which
is Of later date than 2280 B. c.
Typhoid fever is raging in Manitoba
over 100 cases having appeared in
Winnipeg alone.
Private postal cards have been issued
by the socialistic party in Germany in
honor Of DR.. Liebknecht
The people Of Gran, Hungary, ceIe-
brated the 900th anniversary of the
introduction Of Catholicism there.
The shah Of Persia bet 5000 on a
horse race at Ostend, won and gave
the money to the poor of the city
The ameer of Afghanistan, it is re
ported, is m05tlizing his troops and
may advance on the Russian frontier.
Conditions among tle famine
stricken OF India are improving, about
&,149,000 persons now receiving relief
Baron Won Stumm Halberg, the dis
tinguished conservative statesman, is
suffering from cancer Of the stomach.
Lorenzo Schweitz of Breslau has just
been appointed public executioner for
Prussia. He is a retired business man
and well to do.
1t is reported that the harvest
throughout Siberia is exceptionally
bad and that everything points to a
terrible famine.
At Santiago, Chile, many persons
were present at the funeral of the Rev.
DR.. Edison A. Lowe an American
Protestant minister.
To relieve the poor of Dublin Baron
IVeagh will build artisan dwellings in
a congested tenement district. The
cost will be 100000.
Kurds fired upon the British consul
at Van, and the ambassador at Con-
stantinople has filed a protest with the
Turkish government.
London papers contain denial, sub
mitted by the duchess Of Manchester,
that the young duke of Manchester is
engaged to marry Miss Zimmerman OF
Cincinnati.
During maneuvers Of the French
fleet off Cape st. Vincent the torpedo
boat destroyer France ran into the
battleship Brennus and sank with 40
of her crew.
The prince and princess of Wales,
the duke and duchess of York, and
Princess Victoria of Wales visited
Mrs. Ogden Goelet's steamer yacht
Nahma at Cowes
Emperor Williams order forbidding
the commemoration Of the war Of
1870 and the German victory at Metz
has caused great emotion in France.
A closer Franco-German friendship isl
considered probable.
The government Of Nicaragua has |
informed the Inter-oceanIc |
Canal company-the Eyre-Cragin syn !
it's concession was an
nulled in consequence of the COM
pany's failure to deposit 100000 in
gold.
Count Boni de Castellane isl
financially embarrassed. His beauti-
ful summer place, Chateau de Marais,
"a to be sold at auction. 1t is said in
Paris that his wife, Jay Goulds
Youngest daughter, declines to give
cim more money.