Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-01-08
FOREIGN.

Fee stnl continues and there appears
to be little hope Of raising the siege
FOREIGN.
The London liquor license law took
effect and the names of habitual
drunkards will be posted hereafter.
Gen. Miles, who has started for ST.
IBERIA, will visit the European capitals
before sailing for the United States.
Abbt Klein's appointment as bishop
of Monaco is refused by the pope; he
is the translator of Bishop Spalding's
works.
MN. de Burax and de Saint-Victor,
Paris aeronauts, will try to cross Sa-
hara desert in balloons; air currents
are to be tested first at Tunis.
Senior Insula, editor of Santiago
(Cuta) Republica, was shot and killed
by Congressman Corona, editor of
Cubano Libre, during a dispute over
politics.
President Castro's acceptance of
arbitration by The Hague tribunal is
| not acceptable to Italy because of the
demand that blockade he removed;
Germany is satisfied.
The missionaries in the Sianfu re-
| gion have been officially notified to
be prepared to leave if necessary. 1t
is recommended that the women and
children be sent to safe ports.
Max Nordau, in Vienna newspaper
| article, says militarism in the United
| States Will hinder emigration, and
that the worlds tragedy has been
transferred to the Pacific.
The Berlin Reichsanzeiger prints
the text of the new tariff law with the
statement that the date of it's going
into effect would be determined upon
later by the bundesrath.
1t is announced that the claim of
May Yohe for $4,000 against the es-
tate of Lord Francis Hope has been
settled am1cably. The terms of the
settlement have not been published.
Edward VII. of England was pro-
claimed emperor of India; $4,000 per-
sons were present in the amphitheater
at the Delhi durbar, surrounded by
troops and herds of elephants and
| cameIs.
The story of Emperor Williams al
legged attack on King Edward and the
British government on board anAmer-
lean yacht last summer is reprinted
by the London National Review.
which reiterated it's truth.
! New years receptions were held bv
Emperor William at Berlin: President
Loubet, Paris; King Christian, Copen-
hagen; and President Diaz at Mexico
| City; Ambassador Porter's reception
was attended by the entire American
colony in Paris.
Jean Leon Gerome, the French
sculptor, has just completed the
models Of the statues which were
ordered by Charles M. Schwab for the
decoration of his new house at New
York The models rep. esent Labor
and Metallurgical Science.
F1fty-eight lives were lost in the re-
cent fire in coal mine at Bachmut,
Ykatorlnoslav province. Eleven men
Wee rescued after having been sixty
hours Ill the burned mine and twenty
one of the miners were saved after
Delng IMP lSOned five days.
Emperor William and Chancellor
Won Buelow are considering the estab-
llshment OF separate cabinet posi-
ton specially for the administ: alton of
the Polish provinces, thus enabling
the government to concentrate Polish
affairs in single office and secure
uniformity and consistency in the adj
mlnistrative policy.
Near Montreal a rear-end collision
occurred on the Victoria bridge of the
Grand Trunk railway between two
freight trains. Conductor Octave
Trembley was killed. The wrecked
cars took fire and all traffic was block
ed. Trains to and from the United
States cross the st. Lawrence river
over the Victoria bridge.
Count Bobrinsky, who cooperated
with the American famine work in
1891, has received inquiries from
America in regard to the relief re.
CURED in Finland and telegraphed to
Minister of the Interior Won Piehwe.
who has authorized him to say thai
money will be gratefully received. but
that other contributions are not
wanted.
Replying to inquiries from the lega-
lions the foreign Office today admitted
that there was some truth in the re-
port Of warlike preparations on the
part of Tungfu Slang, although it
characterizes the stories Of his move
ments as exaggerated. The foreign
Office says the viceroys of the north
ern provinces have sufficient troops to !
subdue him.
At Paris the annual meeting of the /,
Panama canal company was held The .
time Was occupied with the report of
the directors of the company, which
told of the pending negotiations with
the United States looking to the sale
of the canal. The sanguine hope was
expressed that all difficulties would be
overcome and the sale completed at
an early date.