Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-10

Calcutta is terrorized by an outbreak
of political crimes.
1t was enormously reported here that
Emperor William had made a successful
ascension in the Zeppelin airship.
An official census of Berlin and its
suburbs shows that there are in the
territory 0.124 persons without employ
ment. OF this number only 1,716 are
women.
France has proposed to the Mexican
government that King Victor Emanuel of
Italy be named to arbtrate the rival
claims of these two countries to the own
ership of Clipperton island.
The steamer Minnewauska. the largest
vessel of the fleet of the Atlantic Trans
port line. was successfully launched at
Belfast. Ireland. She is of 14.500 tons
and will start in the New York service
early in 1909.
Through an accidental explosion in the
river Drina, near Sevornick, it was dis
covered that Servians are planting mines
in all the streams between their country
and the province of Bosnia, which Aus
tria recently annexed.
An encounter between two warning fac
tionS of students attending the Univer-
sity of Vienna resulted in injury to ten of
the young men. The cause of the conflict
is antagonism between the pan-German
and the Jewish students
The question that has arisen between
France and Germany over what has come
to be known as the "Casablanca Incl
dent arising out of the arrest by the
French authorities of German deserters
from the French foreign legation, will be
referred TO a court of arbitration.
The committee on privileges of the
House of Lords declared the right of Al
bert Kirby Fairfax. who is a native of
Virginia and who has been described as
the only American bearing an English
title. to the rank and title of Lord Fair
fax of Cameron in the Scottish peerage.
John Henniker Heaton, father of the
imperial penny postage idea, addressing
a big audience in the Royal Colonial in
stitute in London. advocated the trans
mission of cablegrams at l penny a word
He declared that an immediate end ought
to be put to the present cable monopoly
at any cost.
The German government has accepted
nine items of the proposed conference of
the powers on the status of the Balkan
States and Turkey. reserving those ques-
tions affecting Austria Hungary. This is
the net result of the mission of NJ. 1svol-
sky the representative of Russia, who in
itiated the conference.
The negotiations between Bulgaria and
Turkey, according to official advices, are
proceeding slowly and unsatisfactory at
CoEstantinople. The Bulgarian govern
ment is reticent on the matter of the
terms exchanged. but there is undisguised
porte's dilatory tactics.
Judgment in the sum of 81 800 was OBJ
tanned in Paris against Prince Helie de
Sagan on certain protested notes given by
the prince to a dealer in antiquities.
through whose agency he purchased in
1900 number of souvenirs of Gen. Mar
eau. paying therefor $4,000. They in
cluded the generals seal and the plumes
he wore in battle. Prince de Sagan was
married several months ago to the Coun-
tess de Castellane, who was Miss Anna
Gould of New York.
A small steamer, carrying 600 passen-
gers from Annoy to Tungan, China, few
miles distant, sank. Two hundred of the
passengers were drowned. Chinese junks
rescued the others.