Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-01-15

strengthened the ministerial majority
in the upper house.
The Irish land conference recen..
mends plan by which the occupiers
OF the land would become the owners
William st. John Brodrick, British
Secretary of State for War. was mar.
rled in London to Miss Madeline Stan.
ley.
prominent men in the French cot.
ton trade are combining to prevent a
monopoly of cotton milling by Ameri-
cans.
commodore Scheder cables to Berlin
that the Germans captured Is large
Venezuelan vessels at Puerto Cabello
Saturday.
A Mexican special says: There is
no Improvement in the health of
George Greville, the British minister
to Mexico.
1t is stated at the German foreign
office that if marines were landed at
Puerto Cabello it must have been
transient.
Reports Of a possible reconciliation
between crown princess Louise of
Saxony and her husband come from
Dresden.
The Morocco rebellion is waning as
a result Of the concessions by Sultan
Mulai Ab-del-Aziz to his brother, Mulai
Mohammed.
The monthly statement of the Lon
don board-Of-trade shows that during
December imports increased $7,O02,-
500 and exports increased S472,5O0.
M. Joostens, Belgian minister at
Pekin, has obtained for Belgian com
pany a concession at Hankau adjacent
to the one obtained by King Leopold.
The admission of Argentine cattle
| into the United Kingdom is awaiting
only the drawing up Of the regulations
and their PRONUNCIATION in the Gazet-
teer
| The ministers have decided to send
a joint note to the Chinese govern
ment demanding that the instalments
of the indemnity be paid on a gold
basis.
British Colonial Secretary Chamber
lain has established a benevolent die
tatorship in south Africa; Boer leaders
are seeking to make the best terms
| possible.
The whole city of Lisbon is in a
panic owing to the bursting of the
| reservoirs. The low lying districts
are completely inundated and many
persons have persisted.
|
cepted powers conditions for arbitra-
ton and authorized United States Min
lister Bowen to represent him. The
latter will go to Washington.
| The British admiralty is considering
| the construction of a new warship
which will be able to nulIify any at
tacks by submarine torpedo boats.
The details are being kept secret.
The Paris Temps correspondent at
| COnstantinople telegraDhs that repre-
sentatives of the Mausers have signed
contract providing for the delivery
to the Ottoman army of 100000 rifles
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph
company made contracts for daily
service of etheric news kilograms to
British mail steamer sailing from
Liverpool to New York at the end of
this month.
Professor Koch the bacteriologist,
urges that every case of typhus fever
be as strictly isolated as a case of
cholera. He believes that by such
isolation the disease could be wholly
stamped out.
Senior QuirinO Costa, vice-president
Of Argentina, has recalled his engage
ments, and has left Barcelona hur-
redly for Nice. His departure is at
tributed to fear of an anarchist plot
against himself"
The ruling chiefs of Indian natives
states were reviewed by Lord Curzon
and duke of COnnaught at Delhi. A
gorgeous procession of soldiers in
ancient armors elephants, camels, and
musicians participated.
The Petit Bleu states that Nine
| Calve is going to marry Jules Bots,
an author. The paper adds that both
are interested in occultism and spirit
| ualism, and it was while studying them
| that Nine. Calve became acquainted
| with M. Bots.
Germany, Great Britain, and Italy
answered President Castro's request
that the Venezuelan blockade be
raised pending arbitration; the appeal
was denied, but the way was made
easy for settlement outside of Hague
| tribunal
The customary new year rowdyism
at Berlin eliminated in serious dam
| age to Lessing's Prometheus group
from which the hoof and name Of a
horse were battered off, and the statue
of the Great Elector. which had stood
intact for 200 years, was injured.
1t is reported that Chile and Argen-
tina have agreed to sell or place at the
disposal of the British arbitrator all
the warships of both countries that
are now under construction. Under
| the same agreement, it is said, two Ar
gentine battleships will be disarmed
At Berlin Prince Fuerstenberg, a
| relative OF the kaiser and one of the
richest men in Germany, is forming
| syndicate to found great German
national newspaper, which will become
known throughout the world as the
! mOuthpiece of German official opinion.
The employees of the Vulka Works at
Stettln have addressed a telegram to
Emperor William protesting against
his recent speeches against the late
Herr Krupp's assailant sand declare
they signed a previous telegram in
dorsing his action only through fear