Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-17
Foreiqn.

The car is said to be in a serious
condition.
A Vienna burglar killed six persons
in trying to avoid arrest.
The Rhine is frozen over and the
navigation is temporarily closed.
Unusual numbers of royalists cele-
brated the fete des rois in Paris.
Russian newspapers are ordered to
stop criticising the soldiers Of France.
The sugar crop of 1900 in Russia
was u per cent, smaller than that of
1899.
Great Britain and Europe are suffer
ing form intense cold and violent
storms.
Albert E. Kent, who helped organize
the Chicago board of trade, died at
Genoa, Neb.
Rebels are threatening Panama and
the United States has ordered war
ships there.
The Atlantic liner Ethiopia went
ashore in the Firth Of Clyde and lies
in a bad condition.
President Diaz unveiled a monu
ment at Puebla covering the French
and Mexican soldiers.
Prof Andree's will shows that the
aernoaut did not expect to return
alive from the Arctic region.
The steamship Russia went ashore
on the French coast in storm and
ninety persons will probably perish.
The Antwerp-Buenos Ayres line Of
| steamers has been sold to the Ham
burg-American Steamship company
A large meeting of Zionists held in
Berlin voted to call national Jewish
congress for the protection of the
Hebrew interests.
A sensation was caused in Rome by
an address to the pope by the duke
of Norfolk, favoring the restoration
Of the temporal power.
The municipality of st. Petersburg
has decided to make a loan of a.
100000 is to be used in organizing AM
charging the telephone service.
Naphtha production in Russia from
January l to November 1 1900, wa
100000, 10000 pood, against 43S,000,00
pood during the same period of 1899
M. Lukacs, former Hungarian min
by drowning himself in the Danube a
Budapest. He had been suffering
from a nervous trouble.
NeWfOundland's revenue for the ST,
months ending December 81 was 81
100000, being $4,000 above tn,
revenue for the corresponding perio.
of 1899, and by far the best return il
the history of Newfoundland.
Coal deposits have been discovere
at the station Grishino, on the Cattle
rine railway, in Southern Russia. TIL
future production of the mines there
estimated at 100000 pood annually
say 100000 tons. Work will be begu
next year.
Christian De Wet, nephew of tn
boer general, is making speeches i
south Germany in behalf of the Doe
cause and arousing great sympathy
The meeting which he addresses adop
resolutions protesting vigorousI
against the overthrow of the two re
publics.
The Secretary of state for the in
terror, Count Won Posadowsky
Wehner, opened the commercial con
gross in Berlin. He said that German
commerce and industry will have t.
struggle harder than ever for outleti
abroad, owing to the tendency of tn
civilized states to become self-sufi7
ing.
The recent experiments with wire
less telegraphy in connection with thu
French fleet have been so satisfactory
that it has been decided to provide thu
entire Mediterranean squadron O.
France with wireless apparatus
which will be subjected to decisive
tests during the coming cruise of thai
squadron.
Prince Herbert Bismark disavows
the alleged interview in which he was
represented as asserting that the
Great German industrial organi "a
tons, with the approval of Emperor
William and Count Won Buelow, I'M
perial chancellor. had compromised
with the agrarians and would meet
the United States with a sharp pro
| tective policy.