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

nooted.
Rain marred Londons observance
Of Christmas day. Special services
were held in the churches. W. W.
Astor gave the National Rifle associa-
ton $4,000.
Tewfk Pasha. Turkish foreign
minister, promises to answer the
United States complaint about tie
expulsion of naturalized Americans
from Beyrout, Syria.
It is not probable that Germany |
ever viii begin a tariff war with the
United States, says Consular Agent |
Harris at Ei5enstock. in a report TO
the state department.
Admiral Higginson and the officers
of his feet were given a banquet
at Havana by the Veterans associa-
ton. General Garcia praised the
American navy and General Wood
paid tribute TO the Cubans.
The census returns for Algeria
show that in less than fifty years
the native population of the colony,
Ara and kabyle, has almost doubled
having risen from 2,307 900 in 1856 to
4,071 600 at the present time.
At the annual meeting of the De
Beers Mining company at Kimberly
| the chairman announced that the gross
| profits for the year were $2,750,000, the
production being $4,500,O00. The es-
| timated life Of the mines is IA years.
There are further indications of the
reaction in favor OF leniency toward
ployes and forbidding the establish
up in the boxer troubles. and who
were blacklisted at first by the court.
Honors are now being conferred Oh
| boxers.
The radicals in the Galician diet
intend to provoke a debate on the
''Wrc schen school scandals The
governor and project have been max
ing efforts to induce the radicals to
abandon their proposed action, but
unsuccessfully.
General Louis Boath, the bOer COM
mander-in-chief, is holding five British
officers and has warned Lord KtCh-
ener that they will be shot if Com
mandant Kritzinger, who was cap
tured in Cape Colony six days ago.
is sentenced to death.
The queen of Hanover has now at
tanned the patriarchal age of SO years.
She married in 1913 George v, who
was reigning king of Hanover from
1851 to 1855, when the Prussian gov
| eminent deprived him of his throne
and annexed his territory.
The British war Office has issued an
other long dispatch received from
Lord Kitchener, detailing the murders
Of natives by the beers. One case is
given OF wagon driver, who was
captured from a British convoy in he
oud of 1900. and burned alive.
Premier Seldom Of New Zealand is
mentioned as probable governor of the
Orange River Colony. He went to
Australia forty years ago as a boy cf
IS. He is a mechanical engineer by
profession, but for years has chiefly
occupied himself with politics.
The Russian navy has TO record a
success in the far east, for the first
torpedo boat built in the new ship
building yard at Port Arthur has just
been turned out On her trial trip
the boar developed a mean speed of
twenty-seven and one-half knots
The United States army transport
Meade has arrived at Manila. She re
ports having met terrific typhoon
the 18th and 18th, which did some
damage to her boats and flooded the
cabins and the hospital quarters, caus-
ing great alarm 10 those on board.
The English island counties are
suffering from severe frosts. Several
instances are reported of dwellers IN
Icxposed localities having been frozen
10 death. Skating is general in the
provinces. Foggy weather prevails
along the coasts and in the channel
The journey of King Edward and
Queen Alexandra TO SandTingham,
where they were to so to spend
Christmas, has been postponed in coz.
sequence Of slight indispOsition If
Queen Alexandra. It is understood
the queens indisposition is not seri-
Gus.
Thsre has been fighting il Ven
ezuela. wheTe the revolutionary move
ment is spreading. The engagement
took place at Villa do Coura, and it is
reported that the revolutionary com
mander, General Luciano Mendoza.
was defeated by the government
troops
Senior Lopez, who was arrested in
Batangas province for reasonable
! communication with the insurgents
has been hanged. He was a brother
of SiXto Lopez, Aguinaldo's European
representative, and a wealthy MGR
chant in Manila. Leopez massacred
143 Spanish prisoners in 1898.
! Harry de Windt, traveller, is sure
| that Boring strait can be crossed by
railway quite as easily as the straits
of Dover-by tunneling, of course. He
| is about to lead a party from Paris to
| New York by land, to ascertain the
! feasibility OF the scheme Of which he
| is thus assured before he starts.
| Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, the we'll
| known chemist and former Sibthorpian
| professor Of rural economy in the
University of Oxford. who visited Can
ada and the United States in 1882 and
1884, to study the conditions of the
agriculture Of those countries, is dead
in London. He was born in 1917.
1t seems that girls, as we'll as boys,
of Reykjayik, Iceland, have contracted