Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-28
Foreign.


Owing to floods there is a truce in
the Vcnezuelan-COl frontier.
A bill 10 restrain grain gambling was
introduced in the reichsrath at Vienna
An unconfrmed report from st. Pc
tersburg announced the death of Count
Tolstoi
During a discussion over the Chinese
indemnity bill the French deputies got
into a riot.
A street in Paris. has been paved
with new glass material invented ny
a Frenchman.
The sugar refinery at Neufahrwas-
ser, western Prussia, has been de
stroyed by fire at a loss of 100000.
The br gands who hold Miss Ellen
NJ. Stone captive demand immunity for
! themselves as a condition Of her re-
lease.
| The Irish Times announces that
King Edward and Queen Alexandria
will pay a visit to Ireland in the begin
mig of April.
| The battleship Iowa landed marines
to protect railroad property at Pana-
ma, where an immediate attack by reb-
els is expected.
| Mrs. Victoria Woodruff Martin an
nounces that the Humanitarian maya
zine will cease publication wi n the
December number.
| Seven were killed and thirty serious
| ly wounded at Athens in fights be
tween Greek troops and citizens. Stu
dents led the mob.
Rumors reach Vienna that Queen
! Draga of Seryia has been assassinated,
that she was merely wounded and that
she committed suicide.
Colon was easily captured by Colon
bian liberals. Revolutionary forces
retreated from Panama while Castro
plans offensive tactics.
Lieutenant Hildebrand, German
army officer who killed Lieutenant
Blaskowitz in a duel, was sentenced to
| two years imprisonment.
| Smallpox is epidemic in London.
Thirty-five fresh cases were adm tied
into the hospitals. Altogether 405
cases are now being treated.
1t is asserted that the treasure found
| by the Grand Canyon turtle hunters in
! 2 reef C@e Jamaica amounts to $4,000
! IL old Spanish gold coins.
| Chile has been seeking Central
/ American support in her contest
| against the principle of pan-American
arbitration on pending questions.
Emperor William made an address
to the German Society of Naval Engi-
! neers, in session at Charlottenburg,
highly praising German warships.
| The great building erected by the
Darmstadt gymnastic societies, opened
! on Oct. 6, was destroyed by fire and
four servants were burned to death.
! Fifty Chinese soldiers surprised $50
| bandits, close to Pekin, killed IL of
them and captured Is. The prisoners
| have been brought to Pekin for decap-
! itation.
! Miss Marie Josephine Eastwick, for
merry of Philadelphia, was sentenced
in London to six months imprison-
ment for forging a 100000 railroad
certificate.
The successor to NJ. Chinda, Japa-
nese minister in St. Petersburg, will
be N. Kurino shinichiro, formerly in
| Washington, and educated in the
United States.
Ii dung Chang wS7 laid in the Of
fin he carried with hir' on his tour
of the world and frar elaborate obse-
quies will be buried in the small vii
lage where he was horn
Miss Elizabeth Hawkins. who was
married in London to Maxwell Glegg,
wore a pendant containing a lock Of
Queen Elizabeths hair. which was
given to her ancestor. Admiral Sir
John Hawkins.
THE Indian government" says 81 |
dispatch from Simla to the London |
Daily Express, has abolished the |
sword for the cavalry, both British and |
Indian, and a short rife will be issued |
to all mounted troops"
Student riots have been renewed in |
Madrid. The tramways were attacked
and attempts made TO set the cars on |
fire. Over twenty persons were in
jured. Student disorders are also re-
ported in Barcelona and Valencia.
The cable steamer Mackay-Bennett
which arrived at ST. Johns from mid
ocean, reports that she met with fine
weather. picked up the cable and laid
D. new section 40 miles long Having
secured coal supplies. she will return
to midocean to complete the work.