Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-10-18

orders that the bulk of the militia reg
iments called out for service during
the south African war are to be dis
banded. This will affect about So
900 men.
The Venezuelan government has
issued a decree providing for the free
navigation of the Pedernales and
Macare canals in the delta of the
Orinoco previously the monopoly of
an English company.
At the island of st. Helena, the
British transport Idaho landed about
200 boer prisoners Monday. Gen.
Cronje and the other boer prisoners
were preparing a big celebration Ct
Paul Kruger's birthday.
Jarccs Fitzharris, the Phoenix Park
conspirator, known as "Skin-the-
goat" who was re-arrested in Liver
pool for failing to report himself
under the terms Of his prison re-
lease license, was liberated.
General Butler babe farewell to
his troops Oct. and departed south
ward. There was a striking farewell
demonstration. The troops gathered
on both sides of the road for miles
and cheered Butler vociferously.
A dispatch says that the beers are
footing Wepener and Rockville on
their retreat to the southwark. The
British are rapidly closing them in,
70 hn for
them, except via the Basutoland Dor
der, which is strongly guarded.
According to the Cape Town cor
respondent of the London Daily
Chronicle, Mr.. Rhodes in his speech
to the South African league will de
clare in favor of early federation and
the placing of south Africa upon the
same footing as Australia an6
Canada.
The Cape Town parliament will ad
| journ next Monday. The treason
tribunals will be convened October
30, with northumberland Solomon
as presiding judge. The imperial gov
eminent is considering a plan for the
assistance of prisoners of war wher
! they return to the farms.
All the battleships and cruisers o.
the British navy are to be equipped
with wireless telegraph. For some
time experiments with the apparatus
| have been conducted between Ports
mouth, and the Minotaur, sixty-five
miles away, with good results. A rims
of land stations will probably be es
! tablished around the coast of Grear
Britain.
According to reports from st
Pierre seventeen fishing vessels thai
were operating on the grand banks
during the gaie of Sept. II are still
missing, with crews aggregating over
| 200 men. Serious disaster has visited
q number OF Newfoundland fishing
harbOra, Bwin, OF the west side o
Placentia Bay, alone losing thirty
Eve men.
a challenge from Sir Thomas Lip
ton for another series of races for the
! Americas cup reached the New YorI
! Yacht club. The letter challenging
contains a suggestion as to the date
of the race, which it is understood
will be in August. 1t is reported tina
the challenging yacht will be bull
on the Thames, and that she will bt
named Shamrock
Premier Sir John Forrest of Yves
Australia has asked to be relieved @
the premiership early in 1901. Re
viewing the satisfactory condition o
! the colony, the premier said it wa!
intended to make Fremantle the Sa1
Francisco of Australia. He added
; that the profits on the state railroads
debt and provide / per cent. for the
! sinking fund.
The giant White Star liner Oceanic
had a narrow escape from shipwrecl
| off the coast of Ireland. While ap
preaching the coast and trying to picl
up the Fastnet light, what appeared
to be a fog bank suddenly lifted anC
| showed land dead ahead. The YES
sci touched bottom. but Capt. Came
ron stopped his engines, reversed
them and backed into deep water
| without the steamship being injured.
| Adyices received from Colon
! Colombia, say the relations between
| the Colombian government and the
| government of Ecuador and Venezuela
are strained. The two last mentioned
countries, it is added, are charged
with cOnnivance in the Colombian
revolution, and Colombian troops have
| been stationed on the borders, await
| ing developments. In the meantime
! it is further asserted, the rebels are
| gaining strength in the interior o.
! Colombia.
! The alien labor law Of Canada was
enforced for the first time in Toronto
when Officer Williams of the depart
ment of labor, Ottawa, ordered six
men engaged in Cleveland by Vincent
| & Barston to do some very fine paint
| ing and decorating on the residence
! of Millionaire Massey, to leave the
! country. The department of labor
says that recently the United States
! alien labor law has been vigorously
! enforced against Canadians and that
! hencefOrth the Canadian law will be
| equally vigorously enforced against
! Americans.
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