Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-03

creditors are firm in demanding full !!
payment of claims amounting to S115,- (
825.
The war Office in London began re- |
&c II in the army by demanding the
r. igaation of General Sir Henry Col
vi.le
Captain Dreyfus wrote to the French
D.. rnier denying he sent message to
tie kaiser and demanding new investi-
g.tion.
The japanese government dredger
Sa7ate foundered off Cork harbor, II
persons out of IL on board being
drowned
The trial of Quinatavalle and Col
orlbo, the alleged accomplices Of
Bresci in the assassination Of King
Humbert, was resumed.
Christmas tide was favored in
France with bright and cheerful
weather and Parisians celebrated it in
| characteristic fashion.
Three hundred students have been
arrested in st. Petersburg, according
to a dispatch from Berlin, for propa-
| eating socialist doctrines.
The Chinese court objected strenu-
ously to terms of the joint note, es-
pecially to reduction Of forts and
maintenance Of legation guards.
Count Zeppelin, the German aero
naut, will soon address the German
colonial society at Berlin upon the
prospects of utilizing his airship.
The brother of Andree, the missing
aeronaut, says a dispatch from Copen-
hagen, despairing Of his return from
the arctic regions, has finally opened
his will.
The car is now completely restored
being able to take long walks and
drives daily. M. Sipiaguine has had
three audiences with the emperor
since his illness.
The government of Chile, which
recently invited tenders for 400 freight
cars, has accepted 800 from Doeche
Co., and 100 from w. R. Grace & Co.
all of American manufacture.
At st. Petersburg, the holy SYNOD
has ordered that all the churches il
it's jurisdiction take up collections tt
help build an orthodox Russian church
in New York city.
A dispatch from Aberdeen to Lon
don, says that five Shetland fishing
r boats have been missing since thu
storm that ragged last week, and it il
feared that 27 fishermen have beer
drowned.
| Lord Curzon of Kedlestone, tn
viceroy of India, in the course of
!, speech, said that since the appearance
fof the bubonic plague in 1898, $500
| deaths from the disease have occurret
} in the Mysore state.
/ General Reginald Pole Carew, VIII
5 has returned from south Africa, vii
5 marry Lady Beatrice Frances Eliza
: beth, elder daughter of the Marquis o
Ormonde. He is 81 years of age an
: she is under 25.
: A dispatch from Durham to a new
. agency at London, announces tia
:, the Cape to Cairo telegraph line i
t now in operation to point so mile
2 north of Kasanga and 100 miles beyon
. the southern end of Lake Taganyika.
i The pope is much satisfied by tn
+ success of the jubilee. He is prepal
1 ing to hold ordinary receptions. TIL
i buying of tickets has commenced TO
V the pope's mass, which will be cele
3 brated at midnight, Dec. 81, in 81
: Peters.
Evelyn B. Baldwin, the arctic e1
! plorer, who is arranging for the Bale
! win-Zeigler expedition, has purchase
! the Esqu.mauX, the largest and stanc1
/ est of the whaling fleet, and fitted
/ with modern appliances and named
k the America.
l. One of the most serious fires whic
have occurred in the east end of Lo1
i don during the last 10 years broke on
S at the East India docks Five immens
e sheds, filled with goods, including
thousand balot of hemp and quantitie
a of jute, were consumed.
p The gale has moderated and vessel
g coming into Queenstown report fearfr
V exigencies. The German ship Hell
rich, Capt. Sager, encountered hea
/ winds which prevented her sailin
: further than $50 miles west of tn
|
), terly exhausted, having been for day
i at their posts.
L 1t is the general belief that tn
l Cramps contract for the constructio
+ of cruiser for Turkey was signe
without the first payment being made
5 This view is supported by the fac
: that the porte has formally promises
: to pay nothing to Americans befor
paying the Krupps, and the German
l have not yet received anything.
The prince Of luxembourg, presiden
OF the Russian government temperate,
committee, declared the people
palace open to the public. After tn,
inaugural ceremonies, the prince AM
20 OF the higher army officers, includ
ing the commanding generals, alons
with high officials, including noblemer
and their families, dined side by side
with peasants and families of working
men.
Worsley Taylor, conservative, has
been elected to represent the Black
pool division of Lancashire in the
house of commons, in succession tc
Sir Matthew White Ridley, who was
nome secretary in the late ministry
and who, according to parliamentary
usage, recently relinquished his seat
In the lower house on being elevated
TO the peerage with the title of Wis.
count Ridley and Baron Wensley Dale.