Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
The state pawnbroking establish
ment at Naples was destroyed by fire.
The strong room filed with valuables,
was Quilted. The damage amounts
to $4,000
Mrs. MacBride MAUD Gomez pre-
diets that eff King Edward goes to
Dublin he will ride like a strang king
hedged with steel through the silent
| and sullent Streets
At Victoria, B. c., Premier Mcbride
has formed a straight conservative
leader in British Columbia, A. F. Nc
Phillips and R. c. Tatlow. One port
| folio is still to be filed.
Russian newspapers are urging that
| American unfriendliness over the
| Kisheneff massacres be counteracted
by showing Russian friendliness to the
| United States in the past.
The council of Trinity college, Dub
lin, has recommended that the senate
approve the admission of women to
this institution and the abolition of the
compulsory study of Greek.
| Edmind Rostand, author of Cyrano
| 6e Bergerac, was admitted to "immor-
! tality' in the French academy in the
presence of many notables, including
Sarah Bernhard and Nile. Bartet.
The house of representatives at
| Toxic has adopted all the appropria-
tions moved for naval expansion, but
has rejected the proposed expenditure
| for Formosan railways and harbor
works.
Anti-Austrian demonstrations are
reported from Palermo, Messina,
| Catania, Turin, Pisa, Ancona and other
places. 1t is said that Count Nigra,
the Italian ambassador to Austria, has
resigned.
Reports of the latest Chinese pro-
vincial examination show the SUBJ
iects to be unchanged, the empress
dowager's education reform edicts in
favor of western learning remaining a
dead letter.
Nearly 200 residents of Smerdash,
European Turkey, were murdered by
Bashi Bazouks and their village
burned after bombardment. Turkish
troops and Bulgarians are fighting on
the frontier.
The lieutenant governor Of the
Transvaal, Sir Arthur Lawley, has re-
mitted the remainder of the sentences
Of the majority of the former burghers
convicted of military offenses during
the late war in south Africa.
A dispatch received at Berlin from
Durham, Natal, announces that the Ger
man antarctic steamer Guse, concern
ing whose safety considerable appre-
hension was felt, passed Durham Sun
day on its way to Cape Town.
No instructions have been sent to
the British minister at Carcasas to
protest against the recent closing by
President Castro of the custom houses
at number of Venezuelan ports, now
in possession of the insurgents.
Queen Helena received United
States Ambassador Meyer in private
audience at Rome yesterday and
showed great interest in the st. Louis
exposition, asking for particulars re-
garding its extent ard importance.
The governor general of Algeria has
authorized the formation Of three mo-
bile columns, one to march straight to
Figuig and the others to be directed
hn tri1 -bo
against Mayhem and French authority.
The speed trials of the new Austrian
.second-class battle-ship Arpad at Pola
proved her to be the fastest battle
ship in the world. She made an aver
age Of 1866 knots in a six hours run.
She was constructed by the Trieste
Ship-Building Company.
Fifteen hundred delegates of the Co
Protective societies of the United
Kingdom, at their annual meeting at
Doncaster, adopted a resolution en-
phatically protesting against "any
tampering with the free trade policy of
this country by preferential tariffs
AS result of information from
United States Emigrant Inspector
Braun, thirteen emigration agents in
the country districts of Hungary have
been arrested and sentenced to heavy
fines and ten to sixty days impri2on-
ment for attractions of the emigration
laws.
1t is understood that the Duke of
Argyll has sold Iona island, Hebridges,
to the Carthusians who we're recently
expelled from the monastery OF the
Grande Chartreuse in France. The
terms of the sale provide for the preser-
walton of the sacred and historical as
sociations of the island.
AS a result of information impaired
to the Vienna police by United States
Emigrant Inspector Braun thirteen
emigration agents in the country dis
tricts OF Hungary have been arrested
and sentenced to heavy fines and ten
to sixty days Imprisonment for in
fractions of the emigration laws.
The British government is arranging
that representatives Of each govern
ment department interested may meet
, the members Of the United States cur
rency commission in order that the
questions to be considered may be full
~ discussed. Frequent meetings will
be held during the coming weeks.
The Korean government contends
that the Russia lumber concession
which has created trouble botroon