Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22

As an evidence of his friendliness to-
ward Great Britain the ruler of Afghanis-
tan has prohibited the priests from
preaching a holy war upon penalty of
having their tongues pulled out. He has
also ordered that all Afghans who join
the rcDellious border tribes shall have
their feet cut off. The British general,
Willcocks, in command of the forces in
Northwest India. had reached close quar-
tiers with the Mohmand tribesmen. The
brother of the ameer, who is trying to
usurp the throne, is avowedly an anti
British The MOhmands. who are the
chief cause of the trouble, are a great
tribe half in Afghanstan and half in
British jurisdiction. British authorities
can hardly ask the ameer to control his
half when the British are totally unable
to control those on their side of the Dor.
der.
The subcommittee of the American
monetary commission created by Congress
has finished its study of the financial
system of England after series of confer
cnces at London with Lord Rothschild,
the Permanent secretary of the treasury,
and other fnanciers. During the past
week the subcommittee has been sitting
at Paris 10 study the French banking sys-
TEN. Senator Aldrich. with Prof. An
drews of Harvard, will proceed to Berlin
to arrange for several special articles on
the German system. and other members
will return to the United States
A committee of the House of Commons
has reported in favor of changing the
IF rho currrnar The k;Tf
proposes that all clocks in the United
Kingdom shall On a certain date each
spring be advanced eighty minutes from
the solar time registered at the meridian
of Greenwich. The effect will be to make
everybody begin work earlier in the day
and get through earlier, thus having more
daylight leisure after the days work is
done In the fall when the days shorten
the clocks will be set back again at solar
time. Both changes would be made in
the night when most people are asleep.
G. Voisin, a Paris manufacturer of
aeroplanes. said he thought the Wilbur
Wright machine an admirable thing for
sport. but not useful practically. because
of its great size NJ. Yoisin is of the
opinion that the success of the French
triplanes will be found in their stability.
Albert, former minister of justice of
Denmark. has confessed to the embezzle-
ment of several millions of dollars in
trusted to the savings bank of which he
is the head, thus running thousands of
peasants and inficting heavy loss on the
national treasury. He began to falsify
the banks accounts in 1894 and to sDecu-
The territorial supreme court at Manila
has decided that the Sultan of Dunaharra
must hang Tor the part he took as leader
of the raid on Parang. Island of Min
danao, in January. 1906, wherein J. w.
Mcdonald of that place was killed By the
raiders Besides being condemned to be
hanged. the Sultan is ordered BY the corr
to pay to the heirs/0f Mcdonald 1.0ga
pesos $500.
At LuceFne, Switzerland. J. G. Schmid-
lapp, Of Cincinnati, gave dinner in
honor of Cardinal Gibbons. Senate.
Chauncey NJ Depew, Cen William S.
Draper and Judge O'Gorman were pres
ent. Cardinal Gibbons left for Para
after the dinner.