Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-06-28
surance company. He was ill less thar
half an hour.
FOREIGN.

Most OF the exhibitors at Paris have
refused to obey Commissioner Picards
order TO keep their exhibits open until
I p. m.
The British army will discard red
coats.
A West Indian contingent may serve
against the Ashaptis.
Peter of Oldenburg died at Rastede,
his summer residence.
Count Mouravieff, Russian minister
of foreign affairs, died.
France and Brazil have reached an
agreement upon tariff differences.
London police credit many robberies
to a gang of forty American thieves.
| The Irish nationalist convention
| adopted a constitution and adjourned.
Smallpox has broken out in the
thickly populated East End of London.
Saraceb failed to form an Italian
cabinet. Rumors point to Crisoi as
premier.
The German blundesrath has approx
ed the navy bill which passed the
reichstas.
The Italian cabinet resigned owing
to a deadlock regarding rules of
procedure.
A very animated shooting ARRAY &c
Cured in Texas. No ammunition was
wasted.
!. President Mckinley dominates
large number of officers for Por-J Rico,
mostly natives.
Premier Mcdonald declared that the
Manitoba school question will not be
reopened.
The French government promises to
take steps to remedy conditions IN
Martinique.
The German government will admit
foreign farm laborers, as demanded by
the agrarians.
A new ministry has been formed in
Cape Colony, with Sir j. Gordon
Sprigg as premier.
Jamaica is aroused by the report
that Joseph Chamberlain has ordered
a military CONSUMPTION.
Lady Randolph Churchill announced
that she will wed CORVALLIS West,
who is just her sons age.
The statue of Washington presented
to the city by the Daughters of the
Revolution arrived in Paris.
Able Mareux, the French astrono-
mer, has found big sun spot by aid
Of the exposition telescope.
4 Rothschild quarreled because he was
i charged $240 for dinner for nine at
a Paris exposition restaurant.
Greek church authorities have issued
a second order forbidding masses for
Tolstoy should he die unrepentant.
0 Lieutenant Governor McInnes of
q British Columbia was dismissed be-
cause he illegally dismissed ministries.
: Martial law was proclaimed in
: Madrid, refractory taxpayers are to be
jailed, and opposition newspapers sup
d pressed.
v Mrs. Gladstone was buried beside her
husband in Westminster abby, the
:, queen being represented at the
c services.
The British admiralty proposes to
s strengthen the channel fleet with
e another, to be called the reserve
?. squadron.
:, The Admiral Grevais took command
d of the fleet at Brest for the maneuvels
: 1t is the largest fleet France has as.
sembled since 1870.
o Chief Samory, the West African
II leader, who was captured by the
q French in 1898, died at Liberville
where he was detained.
1t is officially stated in London that
- Great Britain had an understanding
" with Russia before beginning heI
present course in China.
Queen Victoria has consented to the
10 marriage of Princess Marie of Bruins
e wick and Prince Macmillan, nephew
) of the grand duke of Baden
Official dispatches received at Wash
s ington by the Colombian charge
e d'affaires state that the revolution in
/ that country has been crushed.
e The French jury on wines refuses to
judge any foreign wine which bears the
It name Of any French wine. This is
l, a blow at the California product and
: the commission from that state may
= withdraw the exhibit