Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-05-02
Foreign.

Foreign.
Ri. Rev. William Stubs, bishop OF
Oxford, is dead.
Of the new British loan $4,000 IS
placed in the United States.
Two Americans were sent to prison
in Jamaica for swindling laborers.
The queens of Holland and of Portu-
gal are at odds with their husbands.
British defeated slave raiding Emirs
of northern Nigeria after heavy fight
ing.
Trade returns for Germany show
heavy increases in exports and I'M
ports.
Mrs. Langtry opened the Imperial
theater of London under her own man
agenent.
Don Antonio de Bourbon says he
will seek divorce from the Infanta
Eulalia
Louis GODDARD will try to cross the
Atlantic in balloon, starting from
New York.
The Portuguese government has is
sued a decree secularizing the relig-
ious orders.
Five children were murdered and
their father wounded by robbers near
Charities, France.
A Swedish inventor constructs a de-
vice to prevent outsiders listening to
telephone conversations.
The duke and duchess Of MARI
borough, who, it was rumOred, had
disagreed, have reunited.
A close watch is being kept for
anarchists who are suspected Of an at
tempt on Emperor Williams life.
The president and cashier of Van
couver bank committed suicide after a
defalcation of $751; 900 was discovered
Money lenders who are creditors OF
the Dutch prince consort laid their
complaints before Queen Wilhelmina
The Canadian government granted
J. J. Hill a franchise to build a line IN
to the coal fields Of British Columbia
King Edward gave White Lodge to
Mrs. Hartman, an American mucA
sought after by England's smart" set
The British chancellor Of the ex
cheQuer declared in the house Of com
mons that the country is On the verge
Of ruin.
The cars appointment of General
Eenneoffsky as head of the Russian
educational department is said tc
please the students.
The Brussels Petite Blue publishes
q dispatch saying that Dr.. Leyds has
sent to the German foreign office q
formal protest against the supplying
Of arms and guns to England by Ger
many.
At Noncton, N. B., a large quantity
OF registered mail, which had bee
made ready for transmission from The
postoffice here to st. John, Halifax ant
ether points, was stolen after the
clerks had left the Office.
The st. Lawrence is to be spanneC
by third bridge, opposite Montreal
The New York Central has obtained
a controlling interest in the Montrea
Bridge company. The estimated cost
Of the bridge is s6,OOO,OOO, and the
terminals will cost 100000 more.
According to the Berlin Freisinninge
Zeitung, Schott and Sons, the Wagner
publishers, upon the invitation of the
Prussian government have assisted tt
frame a copyright bill whereby the
rights of the representatives of the
composer will be prolonged from 80 tc
| 90 years after his death
At the annual dinner of the United
Law society, at which Sir Richard AL
verstone, lord chief justice presided
Joseph Choate, toasting the legal pro
| fession, advocated the establishing in
London of great university of law
where not only British, but other stu.
| dents should be compelled to attend
the lectures if they intended entering
professional or public life.
| Mr.. ROtchie, home secretary in the
| house of commons, replying to a ques-
| ton as to whether English firms were
not being driven out of the Smithfield
market by Americans and Dutch, and
whether Americans had not paid e16,-
600 and e122,500 for two stalls recent
ly, said cases corresponding with those
described here occurred. He added
L am not sure it is correct to say
English firms are being driven out of
the market. The transfers appear to
have been conducted according to
the governing principles. l have no
power to interfere