Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08
Foreiun.


Carlist revolt in Spain promises to
give the army serious work.
Prof. Max Mueller, the great philo-
logist, is dead at Oxford university.
The building of the Spanish fleet
will be intrusted to French builders.
Dowie gave up the fight in London,
leaving the field to one of his deacona.
General Botha and a strong force of
beers are moving toward Cape Col
ony.
London financial circles are nervous
over the export of 100000 gold last
week.
The English public is displeased
over Lansdowne's appointment as
foreign secretary.
Frederick-Godet, theologian and tu-
tor Of the late emperor Frederick Of
Germany, is dead.
General Ian Hamilton's wife was
robbed of $500 worth Of jewels in
Paris hotel
DR.. Won MuhIberg succeeds Baron
Won Richthofen as German foreign
nder-secretary.
Returning Canadian volunteers from
south Africa complain of ill-treat
ment after muster-out.
A Paris paper says that Emperor
William visited the exposition in
cognito two weeks ago.
The Dautsch Bank of Berlin is to
finance Swiss railroads with S60,000,-
900, mostly from America.
Bresci, the slayer of King Humbert,
wrote to his wife that he is kept in a
damp we'll and is compelled to stand
all the time.
The German government has adopt
ed the American system of consular
reports and the first batch of reports
appeared yesterday.
New officers in the British cabinet
are William st. John Brodrick, secre-
tary OF state for war, and Earl of Sci
borne, first lord of the admiralty.
A German report states that the
United States is the most dangerous
opponent to Germany's industrial
power and commercial advance
A Paris court appointed George
Gould trustee for his sister, Countess
Castellane, whose husband has spent
100000 francs of her money in four
years.
After visiting Berlin ex-President
see the car. The Dutch colony at
Moscow will give him a hearty re-
ception
There is no truth in the report that
Queen Victoria is i'll, though really
she is affected by the death of her
grandson, Prince Christian Victor of
chleswig-Holstein.
The duke of Abruzzi of Sweden has
chartered the Gothenberg whaler
Capella to proceed to Franz Joseph
land in search of three missing Arctic
exploration expeditions.
Shaker Pasha, special envoy of
Abdul Hamid, sultan Of Turkey, pre-
sented to Emperor William a number
Of gifts, including very valuable
necklace for the empress.
The Transvaal was proclaimed at
Pretoria part Of the British empire.
The royal standard was raised with
military ceremonies. Sir Alfred Mil
ner read the PROCLAMATION.
The Norwegian government has de-
cided to impose special tax upon all
evading the CONSUMPTION. The amount
of the impost will be settled at the
next session Of the storthing.
Prof. Eber, the incumbent of the
no oh OF Of
sity of Berlin, began series of lee
lures on the history of America before
its discovery by Columbus.
NJ. Millerand, the minister of com
merce, has obtained President Lobet's
signature to decree prolonging the
exposition until Nov. II and favoring
Nov. as free day for the poor.
Prince Christian Victor, a grand
son Of the queen, who died at Pretoria
OF enteric fever, expressed a wish to
be buried with his comrades in south
Erica. His body will therefore prob
ably be inferred at Pretoria.
Sir Thomas Lipton's corner in mess
pork was closed out at $40 a barrel.
jump of So in one day, and an ad-
vance of 81 since the corner began.
Llpton's profit is said to be over
100000
At an extraordinary meeting of the
colonial council at st. Croix, Danish
West Indies, a resolution was adopted
to cable King Christian of Denmark,
'submissively expressing" the wish of
the inhabitants to continue under the
Danish crown and expressing the be-