Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22

given by women toreas at Pedraguer,
Spain, the benches collapsed and
eight persons were killed and 200 in
jured.
The police of Mayence prevented a
meeting at which an address was to
have been delivered on the Haymar
ket riots entitled, A Judicial Murder in
Chicago.
Kruger will be welcomed to Mar
settles by 100000 people. The govern
ment is pushed by the public to treat
the fugitive with honor. Kruger has
arrived at Suez.
Caesar Della Croce, who was nat
uralized, in New York in 1898, has been
ordered to leave France within twenty
four hours or be imprisoned. He is
an Italian and destitute.
Count Tolstoi has finished the drama
''The Corpse" upon which he has
been engaged for some time past.
The play which is in twelve scenes,
will be produced Immediately after its
publication.
! The British steamer Magician, Cap
tain Wood, from New Orleans October
| 25, which arrived in Liverpool took
| fire in the fourth hold during the voy-
age. It is believed to have been ex
| tinguished..
Nordenskjold has purchased the
| vessel which carried Lieut.. Amsdrup's
expedition to the arctic and intends
to use it in an antarctic expedition.
| The king of Sweden will support the
enterprise financially.
The Russian army authorities are
theoretically encouraging the study
of Hindustance by the officers station
ed at Tashkend, and recently none
tary prizes were offered for the most
marked progress in the language.
A representative of Herr Krupp is
in Madrid negotiating with the Dilbao
capitalist, Martinez Rivaz, and other
Spanish capitalists for the organiza-
ton of a company in Spain to builu
! ironclads and manufacture cannon.
Alfred Harmsworth, the proprietor
of the Daily Mail, has decided to make
an extensive tour of America. He will
sail on Dec. -, and spend at least
three months on the American CONT
nent, visiting every city of Importance.
Mutiny occurred on the German
steamer Industra, and before she
sailed from Stettin, November 7, for
| New York. six mutineers were de-
livered over to the local tribunal for
trial and their places filled by other
seamen.
The Wilson Line steamer Angelo,
bound from Christiania, Norway, for
Hull, which went ashore near Withern-
sea, on the Yorshire coast. and all of
whose passengers and crew were res
cued, has been f1oated and towed to
Grimsby Roads.
Thomas Arnold, fellow and ex
aminer in English language and liter
ature at the Royal University Of Ire
land, second son of the celebrated DR..
Thomas Arnold. head master of Rug
by, and father of Mrs. Humphry Ward,
the novelist, died.
The Figaro makes the following SEN
sational statement: "a recrudescence
of royalism is imminent. The duke
of Orleans has ordered meetings in
the wards of Paris and the move
ment will be extended to the depart
ments, when well on foot in the cap
ital"
The engagement is announced of
the Countess Cressida PeruZzi di
Medical to Maj. Edward H. Eldredge
of the Eighth Massachusetts regiment,
who is prominent in Boston society.
The prospective bride is 10 years old
and beautiful and is member of the
historic Medici family
The United States ambassador to
France, Gen. Horace Porter, left
Paris on a vacation. He will be alb
sent about seven weeks and will
spend the time mostly in the southern
part of Spain. Henry Vignaud, secre-
tary of the United States embassy,
will be charge daffaires ad interim.
Parliament has been convened on
account of the necessity Of money
for the war Considering the enor-
nous majority they obtained at the
general election it is hoped the min
listers will firmly resist any tendency
to waste any time in sham Debates
The costs of war are now over $780,
600 900.
The work of building Sir Thomas
Lipton's new Americas cup challen-
ger Shamrock II has been started in
Denny's yard at Dumbarton within an
enclosure. G. L. Watson, the yacht
designer, has laid out the lines of the
| framework, which will be constructed
of nickel steel. The plates probably
will be of bronze.
At a meeting Of the Swansea Har-
Dor trust Sir John Jones Jenkins,
chairman of the Swansea metal ex-
change, said that the importation of
American steel bars threatens the
extinction of the British steel indus
try and that the trust would lose the
large revenue now derived from the
| importation Of iron ore.
The London Times announced the
following appointments: Lord Raglan,
undersecretary of state for war; Earl
of Onslow, undersecretary of state
| for the colonies Earl of Hardwicke,
undersecretary of state for India. 1T
seems certain says the Times edi-
torially, that the cabinet will con-
| sist of 20 members, the largest re-
| corded in our political history This
is unfortunate, but it seems to be re-
garded by Lord Salisbury as newt
! able"
American cowboys and muleteers to