Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-18
FOREIGN.
Nerdi's health is better.
robbers.

FOREIGN.
Verdis health is better.
Socialist gains in Denmark
Cardinal JacObini is near death.
The earl of Ava is reported dying.
Queen Victoria is i'll with Influenza
A public welfare exposition is to be
held at Leipzig.
Spain will fortify the Canaries and
Balearic islands.
Princess Henry of Prussia gave
birth to a son.
Turkey will grant concessions in
Syria to the French.
German socialist opposition to naval
increases is diminishing.
General Felipe Berriozabal, Mexican
minister of war, is dead.
Vienna police declared poker is a
game of chance and forbid it.
Italy may try to secure a port in
China by peaceable means
Prairie fires swept the Volga region,
destroying whole villages.
An earthquake in the district of Tiff
lis, Russia, killed 600 persons
The investment of American capital
is rapidly increasing in Mexico.
French took formal possession of
the Kouang- territory.
Russia has material ready to build
a railway to Herat when necessary.
Finance Minister Won MIGUEL said
Prussia had starved herself great.
suited favorably to the government
Belgians won two battles with re-
bellious Batatolas in Congo Free
State
The Bonapartist party is split be-
cause Victor Napoleon is not an anti
Semitic.
The coal famine in Italy is attrib-
uted to south African war Factories
are closed
The kaiser said social democracy is
a temporary phenomenon and will ex-
haust itself
The agrarians threaten to defeat
the kaiser's plans unless he agrees to
meat inspection.
Lady Alice Montague, sister of the
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resort in Switzerland
French royalists say they will not
attempt to overthrow the republic un-
til after the exposition.
Great Britain sent a conciliatory
reply to Germany's note regarding the
seizure of German vessels
The duke of Veragua heads the en-
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the German crown prince.
Hugh ]. Macdonald has accepted
the task of forming a new conserva-
tive government in Manitoba
In Paris Comte de Cotton was SEN
fenced TO two months Imprisonment
and ordered to pay $500 francs dam
ages for reckless driving of his auto
mobile, whereby a woman was run
over and severely injured.
The high court at Paris has found
Paul Deroulede, Jules Guerin and An
Dire Buffet guilty Of conspiracy.
The basis of a new general treaty
between Spain and the United States
has been drawn up at Madrid.
Natives of the Admiralty islands
men of a British trading schooner.
Major General Prior, commanding
the fifteenth brigade under orders to
proceed to south Africa, died in Lon
don
DR.. Schenk said a man-child for the
car will be his next triumph, and that
he will settle in Switzerland or Amer
lea.
An imposing republican demonstra-
ton marked the annual pilgrimage to
the monument of Leon Gambetta, near
Paris
Deschanel, in resuming presidency
Of the chamber, denied French deca-
dence, and pleaded for international
harmony.
BraziIs minister of finance mas been
ordered to burn 100000 of paper
money every week until s50,00OO 900 is
destroyed.
| To show his displeasure with the
Prussian diet for rejecting his canal
bill, Emperor William refused to at
tend its opening.
All parties in the landtag united in
the attack on the Prussian ministry
for Furnishing members who voted
against the canal bill.
Radical republicans were defeated
| by a conservative and reactionary Goa
lition, electing Deschanel president of
the French chamber.
Count Goeffen, automobile scorcher,
was sentenced TO two months in pris-
! on and a fine Of $1,000 francs for run
/ ming over a woman in Paris.
! A Catholic parish near Montreal
had quarrel over the election of war
den, which ended in riot. The arch
! bishop declared the church under
| ban. The affairs were denuded and
the church closed up amid the funeral
! tolling OF the three bells.
The new doctorate instituted by the
| University Of Paris in 1897 for the
| benefit Of foreigners has been con-
| ferred upon Daniel Folkmar, former
lecturer in sociology at the University
OF Chicago and now professor OF an
thropology at the new University of
Brussels