Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-08
FOREIGN.

tDREltIN.
General Gallifet's health is improved.
An operation restored Crispis sight.
William Scott. artist, died in Lon
don.
Russian journals talk OF interven-
ton.
The anti-foreign sentiment in China
is increasing
Russia plans a railway IN Turkestan
towards Cabul
The Italian crown prince is to visit
the Paris exposition.
The National theater of Paris will
accept no plays by royalists.
Anna Maria Pecci, niece of the pope,
was married to DR.. Debonis.
Russia intends to rent" from Persia
a harbor on the Persian gulf.
Andrew White Tuer, famous British
publisher, is dead in London.
The Bavarian state railways are ex-
perimenting with American coal.
The emir of Bokhara offered Russia
tracts Of land for colonization.
O'Donneil was elected to parliament
from South Mayo to succeed Davitt.
The ninetieth birthday of the pope
was celebrated in Rome with fireworks
The British naval estimates for 1900
call for an expenditure of $137 ,613, 900
Two hundred and fifty Roman print
ers struck against typesetting ma
chimes
The Persian ambassador at Paris said
the shah was not under Russian in
fiuence
Oman has $4,000 armed Arabs and
is said to be eager for holy war agains
England
Lord Rosebery has resigned the
presidency of the Scottish Liberal as
ISOLATION.
Won Bulow is opposed to the estah
! lishment of a German chambers Of
commerce abroad.
| Journal des Debats announces thl
Paris exposition will not be ready fol-
the opening on April
Herbert Bismarck is working to be-
come a chancellor. He suppressed par
of his fathers memoirs.
The University Of Edinburgh viii
confer the degree of LID. on Mis-!
| Ormerod, the entomOlogist.
| The socialist editor Schmidt, in pris
on for insulting the kaiser, received
! 5000 votes for the reichstag.
| King Christian and Premier Horring
oppose the sale Of the Danish Yves
Indies to the United States.
The kaiser's play was Kissed at its
first performance in Berlin and hi!
majesty hurriedly left the theater.
British government officials resent
! ed the report that the Sabine incident
was closed with an apology to US.
King Leopold promised to investi
gate an American missionary's charge:
of outrages in the Congo Free State.
A Russian cruiser has arrived at Bun.
! der Abbas at the mouth of the Persian
gulf, and British ships have gone there
The French senate, sitting as a high
court, sentenced Deputy Habert
! to five years Punishment for melting
| soldiers to INSTRUMENTATION.
Goschen told parliament that more
gigantic naval plans have been laid
since the peace congress than ever be
| fore entered the heads of the European
! powers.
The report that General Horace
Porter, United States ambassador
would be candidate for the vice-presi-
dency on the republican ticket
is denied in Paris.
The discovery has been made that an
| association has been buying diseased
animals, Strengthening them in various
places in the Paris suburbs where po-
lice supervision is slight and selling
the meat
The Uganda railway telegraph line
reached the Nile at Ripon Falls, Feb
IS, and was carried across the river
next day, thus establishing Geographic
communication between London and
the sources Of the Nile.
Five Aberdeen trawlers which started
AoI VIC lIShlhS UClOlS luS
cent gales, have not returned and all
hope of their safety has been aban-
doned. Their crews number about
seventy men and boys.
Countess Agnes Stolberg, eldest
daughter of Count Frederick Stolberg,
has been married to Count Valentin
Won Bolestrem. The bridegroom is the
eldest Of six cons of the president Of
the German reichstag, Count Won Bole-
strem.
E. S. Grogan, who has just returned
to England after a two-years absence
in central Africa, states that the ma
tives are being seriously oppressed by
the Belgians, who are in the habit Of
making frequent raids across the
frontier.
Richard Croker, who has been very
slowly recovering from the effects Of a
fall from his horse a couple Of months
ago, left his country house, Vantage
last week, with the intention Of going
to Germany. Although still on crutches,
Mr.. Croker is able to travel without
much discomfort.
President James O'Connell Of the