Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-19

have decided to remove the grievance
of the Marconi company by connect
ing the wireless telegraph station at
Poldhu, Cornwall, with the nearest
!, regular telegraph station.
The United States reciprocity treaty
was ratified by the Cuban senate, 16
to 5. Senior Bustamento in an argu-
ment for its adoption declared Euro
pean governments had protested
against its adoption to protect their
trade.
+! Emperor William while deer-stalk-
ing at his hunting lodge executed a
series Of drawings in colors illustrat-
ing the historical development of
! costumes. These have been placed on
] exhibition by the Berlin Artists so
ciety.
| The house Of commons in com
mittee of the whole continued the de-
bate on the army estimates and re-
jected by a vote of 245 to 154 the
amendment to reduce the army estab-
, lishment, 235,761 men Of all ranks, by
| $1,000 men.
Emperor William has accepted the
! resignation CT five officers Of the naval
| staff, including Captain Obenheimer,
who commanded the German cruiser
Irene at the time Of the capture of
Manila by the American forces. No
! reason is given out.
Police President Count Won Bern
storff has returned to Potsdam from Il
ten weeks visit to the United States,
! where he went at the request of En-
peror William to study the methods
of criminals and the selling Of girls
! for immoral purposes.
| Austria will not participate in the
st. Louis exposition. Notwithstanding
an appropriation for an official exhibit,
Austria will be we'll represented at the
exhibition, as 200 manufacturers in
! tend exhibiting independently.
The Chinese Eastern railroad has
inaugurated steamship services from
Dalny to Shanghai and from Dalny to
! Nagasali for the conveyance of pas
sengers. The journey from Paris to
! Shanghai or to Nagasaki can now be
accomplished in eighteen days.
At Dalhousie, N. B., Postmaster J.
A. Johnson, arrested for alleged com
plicity in robbing the postoffice here
and released on bail, was rearrested
on charge of having sent a box of
/ poisoned candy to his alleged accom-
plice in the robbery, George Chiever-
! ton.
A dispatch to Lloyds from Manila
says the local American steamers
Navarro and Neustra Sonora de
Lourdes have been in collision off
Punta Santiago and that both vessels
sank and will prove total losses. Some
of the passengers and crews were
! saved.
Foreign Minister Delcases made a
presentation to the chamber of depu-
! ties Of the part France is taking in the
various international affairs. At the
| conclusion Of the speech the chamber
adopted a resolution expressing con-
| fidence in the course the government
| was pursuing.
The St. Petersburg police have
caught the burglar who robbed St.
! 1saac's cathedral and carried away
| the crown from the image of the
| Savior, which was ornamented by a
diamond worth $4,000 and seventy
nine other jewels. They have re-
| covered all the jewels.
Before the budget committee of the
reichstag Herr Muller of the center
party said a combine Of manufacturers
| of arms was being formed under the
leadership Of the Iowa company with
/ the object Of raising prices. The com
mittee made cuts amounting to $1,130,-
| 600, chiefly in the estimates for the
artillery.
| High politics is involved in the forth
coming visit of the kaiser to the Dan
! ish court. The rapid classification of
Finland has alarmed Germany, the
statesmen Of which country believe
! that the whole Scandinavian PENN
sula is in danger from Muscovite
rapaclty and that, therefore, peril is
! beginning to overshadow Germany
! from the north.