Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-26
FOR EfGN.

OoHIeAAidI actually De begun.
FOREIGN.
Lord Charles BeresfOrd announced
that he had been offered and would
accept the command OF the channel
squadron.
An effort to prove that Thomas Car
lyle did not illtreat his wife was be-
gun by the publication of Jane Walsh
Carlyle's letters.
Th negotiations between Germany
and Russia for a new commercial
treaty have been opened by the usual
exchange Of preliminary notes.
The cars marked attention to Am
bassadcr, and Mrs Mccormick is in
terpreted at st. Petersburg as showing
his friendship for the United States.
AS the result of fire at Pultovtsa.
IN the government Of Podolia. Russia,
twelve persons have lost their lives
and 200 houses have been destroyed.
In opening parliament king Edward
referred to Venezuela without men
tiOning Germany, or referring to the
Alaskan boundary arbitration and to
Macedonia
British parliamentary debate on the
kings speech began with the Irish
nationalist acting under self-restraint.
The Wyndham bill is expected to end
the agrarian troubles.
The Spanish government was award
ed S335,OC0 damages against the CLYDE
bank Shipbuilding company for fail
ure to deliver four torpedo boats be-
fore the war with the United States.
The British government has notified
Turkey that if the latter government
manifested the slightest intention Of
sending troops to Arabia. Great Britain
will occupy all the ports of the Red
Sea.
The Jamaica legislature has adopt
ed a resolution authorizing the govern
ment to Fay $12,500 annually toward
subsidy for establishing a new. fast
direct steamship service between Can
ada and Jamaica.
The strike cf about 1900 dock Il.
boreTs employed by one Of the con
tractors Of the North German IIovd
Company at Bremerhaven. which be-
San Monday on account Of the disrig-
sal OF one OF their comrades. has been
ended by the reinstatement Of the dis
missed workman.
Great Britain's shfpping industry $
languishing to an dbnornaIly low
level and an unusual volume CT effect
i've tonnage is laid up. One of the
most striking features OF the present
ship5uijding situation is the vast pre-
pOnderance Of work on hand for Brit
ish shipowners.
The sum Of $500 was paid at auc
ton in London for a small jug of Full
ham ware strapped with silver bands. !
The jug, which is nine and a half
inches hieh, five inches in diameter
and of the Gate Of 1881, was dis
covered in CUPBOARD of a church at
West Mailing, Kent, a few years ago. |
King Oscar, referring to the differ !
ences between Norway and Sweden, is
reported to have said: q do not deny
the existence Of serious difficulties be-
tween the two countries. The union |
was badly devised. My grandfather |
did not know the Norwegian language, |
and our trouble is due to that cause"
Alder Nichols, formerly master of |
the British schooner Bessie Dodd, and
George Jerrett, the skipper of her
cargo Of fish, pleaded guilty at ST. !
Johns, \. F., to casting away the |
schooner Ga the Labrador coast last
October to defraud Lloyds Of $40 900 |
insurance. Both were sentenced to |
four years penal seryitude.
The hearing on the appeal of W. K. |
Vanderbilt, who was sentenced to two !
days imprisonment in New York on |
the charge Of driving an automobile |
at excessive speed was resumed A |
chauffeur named Coubac, who ran the
machine at the time, testified that Van
derbilt was not in the automobile The
hearing was continued again.
Cotton spinners in England seem
thoroughly alarmed at their depend |
ence upon the United States for their |
cotton supply, this alarm being sharp
ly intensified by the present relations
between the supply and demand for
raw cotton. The opinion is unanimous
that the culture OF cotton should be
encouraged in the British colonies and
possessions.
An extraordinary happening has
been amazing the Venetians for two
days. When the tide ebbed the water
flowed seward with such speed and
volume that all the canals Of the city, |
including the grand canal, were
drained almost dry, the foundations of
palaces and houses exposed, and gon-
dolas and steamers stuck in the mud
where they remained until the next
tide