Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-02


tons at Moscow last week, during
which the escutcheon on the German
consulate there was shattered. The
adds that the Russian
censor stopped the transmission of |
this news
A dispatch from Constantinople |
says that W. ". Post, treasurer of the |
Turkish mission in that city. and NJ |
Garguilo dragoman Of the United
States legation at Constantinople, are
still at Salonic endeavoring to open
negotiations with the hTigards who
hold captive Miss Stone. and to fix q
rendezvous with them.
Assassination and pillaging Of vii
lagos and outraging Of inhabitants
have so increased recently in Mace
donna that the consuls have appealed
to the embassies to put a stop to such
crimes. The foreign ministers have
made urgent representations to the
porte of the danger of permitting the
continuance of such acts.
Gontaro Ohdachi. chief engineer of
the imperial Japanese navy, has ar
rived in New York on the Celtic. He
is on his way to Japan by way of San
| Francisco. Mr.. Ohdachi was chief
engineer on the battleship Euro in the
Chinese-Japanese war, and on its ter
| mination was promoted for his serv-
| ices to his present rank.
! There is no truth in the report pub
lished in the United States by a news
agency that Mgr. Scalabrini had been
practically selected to succeed Mgr
Martinelli, as papal delegate in the
! United States, and that he had begged
! the pope to excuse him from such pro-
motion. The vatican never intended
to appoint Mgr. ScalAbrini to the
! Washington post
| The recent graduation of a Turkish
girl from the American Medical college
in Turkey formed occasion of a char
acteristic imperial edict. Turkish
children henceforth must not attend
foreign schools, Christian teachers
must not be employed in Turkish fam
lilies, and Turkish ladies must not ap-
pear in public, attended by Christian
| women companions.
a dispatch to the London Daily
Mail from Sydney announces that
Joseph Chamberlain, the colonial
| secretary, has telegraphed to Z Bar.
ton, the prime minister of the com.
mOnwealth of Australia, TO the effect
that the British government would be
glad OF loco men for service in South
Africa. This will be the first federal
contingent TO so 10 South Africa.
! In response to a request for q
royal souvenir of the fatherland
Prince LuitpOld, regent of Bavaria
early in the coming year will send the
BaVarian American Verein of Chicago
q magnificent commemorative banner
representing the most artistic work of
the court embroiderers at Munich
The design will show a Bavarian oak
forest worked in costly silk aud gold
A Decentralization for telephones is
to be adopted in Sweden. The inven-
ton is a simple cOntrivance with a
button push. If any one using the in
strument fancies that a third party is
tapping" the wire, or listening. he
can satisfy himself as to the truth of
his suspicion by pressing the button
for the invention Will infallbly reveal
the fact, and he can stop the CONVEX
sation
According to Sofia dispatch to the
London Daily Telegraph. an agree
ment has been reached between the
brigands holding Miss Stone captive
and the American legation at Con
stantinOplo, under the terms of which
the brigands are to accept G14.00(
for the release of Miss Stone It ls
said the ransom is to be paid on Bul
garian soil, and that Miss Stone is to
be liberated in Turkish territory.
DR.. Sven Anders Hedin, the Swedish
traveller (WhO recently reached
Ladakh, Cashmere, from exploring the
Cobb desert and ThibeO, has wired
his greetings to King Oscar, and at
the same time informed him that MS
party was attacked by 500 Thibeta1
| soldiers during the course Of his
journey, and that all his collections
and almost the whole of his caravan
| were lost, but that his valuable notes
were saved.
Somebody in Berlin. moved by a de-
sire to give the poorer children OF the
city an opportunity to attain occasion
ally the joys and benefits of country
life. has devised an ingenious scheme
whereby city dwelling parents are
brought into communication with par
ents of about their own social status
living in the country, and a temporary
| exchange Of children follows. The eX-
change Of favors is a perfectly fair
one; each child is in a way a hostage
| to insure the good treatment of the
| one it replaces, and there is no extra
expense except for transportation.
Replying to the protest of the
United States charge d'affaires
Spencer Eddy, against the notifica-
ton issued by the authorities of
Beyrout, Syria, to the effect that
naturaliZed American citizens must
renounce their naturalization within
fifteen days, under penalty of being
expelled from Turkey, the Turkish
foreign minister, Tewfk Pasha, denied
all knowledge Of the matter, but
promised to inquire into it and give
Mr.. Eddy definite reply soon.
The Italian Chamber Of Deputies
has adopted parts of the financial pro-
posaIs bill which was made question
OF confidence by vote of 1874 to SIS.