Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-01-29

fuenza at ST. Petersburg.
Tangier dispatch says that the
Morocco sultan's troops decisively de
feated the pretender's forces.
Another Russian torpedo boat
destroyer passed through the Darda-
nelles Monday, bound for Sebastopol.
The duke Of Tetuan, formerly min
lister for foreign affairs at Madrid, IS
so seriously i'll that he is not expected
to recover.
There was a sharp shock of earth
quake at Davos, Switzerland. 1t
came in vertical direction and lasted
for two seconds.
The Petit Bleu says 100,00 persons
are dying of hunger on the Breton
coast. The cabinet has voted 100000
for their relief
Italy has experienced a cold snap
which is being felt all over the greater
part of the empire. In Venice the
lasoons are frozen over
A section Of smart Parision society
has formed sort Of informal league
to suppress the growing fancy for
Mr. Wyndham, chief secretary for
Ireland, has announced that his Irish
land purchase bill will be made
government order of business in
March.
The Austrian exhibit at the st. Louis
exposition promises to be a large one.
Sixty-seve1 Austrian firms have thus
| i,o%o Of
ticipating.
The English minister Of war is about
| to submit a proposal to parliament
that the government acquire thirty
batteries of howitzers and 100000 i'm
proved rifles.
COnStabulary Inspector Fletcher, In
a fight with thirty Philippine ladrones,
killed five, captured one, and was
slightly wounded; reinforcements
killed six others.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
and the other members Of the royal
family attended a memorial service in
memory of Victoria at the royal mauso,
leum at Frogmore.
Alfred Belt, the inacier, who has
been seriously i'll, left johannesburg
for England. He had sufficiently re-
covered to be able to walk from his
carriage to the train.
At Durham the bubOnic plague
is epidemic. There are no less than
thirty-siX cases, two of which are
Europeans. Thus far seventeen have
died from the plague.
Queen Helena received Ambassador
and Mrs. Meyer most cordially in
private audience at Rome and express
ed the friendliest sentiments for
America and Americans.
A boiler explosion in Tupper's iron
works at Bilston, StaffordsnIre, re-
suited in the killing of five persons
and the injuring of twenty or thirty by
steam and pieces of flying metal.
The government of Rhodesia has
awarded two Of the Rhodes scholar
ships at Oxford to students attending
the Jesuit college at Buluwayo. These
are among the first awards made.
The car has extended to the monks
and nuns expelled from France the
right to settle in certain parts Of Rus
STA. AS result several monasteries
and converts will shortly be erected in
Siberia.
The Siamese government has
agreed to a prolongatiOn of the de-
lay in signing the Franco-Siamese
treaty until August in consequence of
powerful French opposition to the
treaty.
At the court-martial of Major Edwin
F. Glenn at Manila two civilian scouts
testified that they ordered the native
guides killed, and that Major Glenn
did not order their execution as
charged.
German opposition to Mormonism
has again appeared. Several Nor
mons who have been advocating the
tenets o. ~44eir sect near Hanover have
been notified HAT thew must leave
Prussian soil.
In a dispatch from Stockholm the cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says:
''The famine in the north of Sweden is
becoming worse because of the alb
normally early winter, heavy snowfall
and intense cold"
Chinese dOWager empress is asked
by censors to resign; the promised re-
forms declared to have failed and ex-
travagance in building useless rail
road to tombs and in celebrating her
birthday is charged.
John Bottomly, general manager foI
the Marconi Wireless Telegraph COM
pany Of America, has announced that
work would soon be begun for the
installation of wireless stations cap
able Of covering pretty much all the
world
Lord Rosebery in a speech at Ply
mouth approved Chamberlain's Afri-
ran trip, but declared the British war
Office infested with 'bacilli," and that
Kitchener, only capable man there,
has been sent to India.
In the reichstag Chancellor Won
Buelow, in reply to Herr Richter, who
said Emperor William harmed the
country by talking too much, asserted
that the kaiser's individuality was
beneficial to the empire.
The Belgian government has de-
cided to construct a large pavilion Oh
the st. Louis exposition grounds III
which all Belgian enterprises will be
fully represented by samples, illustra
lions, and graphic charts.
German government and kaiser
were accused by Herr Bebel. socialist