Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-30

The Santa Fe road is locating large
numbers of German fruit growers along
its line in Oklahoma.
Railroads can accept nothing but money
in payment for transportation, according
to decision by Federal Judge Kohlsaat
Railroads centering in Chicago are rap
idly installing telephones to take the place
of telegraph service in the operation OF
trains.
Charlemagne Tower, the retiring Amer.
lean ambassador to Germany, presented
his letters of recall to the emperor al
Potsdam, and David J. Hill arrived next
day with credentials as the new ambassa.
dor.
The Canadian government has decided
to cOnfine the coastwise trade on the Pa.
cific coast of Canada to British vessels
hereafter, thus excluding a large number
of American ships which have engaged in
that trade.
Four Indians were killed and three cap
tured in a battle between Mexican troops
and Yaqui Indians in the Bacatate noun.
tains. The troops in that vicinity are
dams.
At Parma the Agrarian Labor League
has proclaimed a general strike On the
10th the attempt was made to close the
shops and the troops were called out to
drive the strikers back. The leaders OF
the league were arrested.
Wilbur Wright, the American aeronaut
has announced that his new machine VIII
be ready within a month or six weeks for
the trial in France. He will make one or
two private trials before admitting the
public to witness the tests.
A number of delegates from French
chambers of commerce are at Warsaw,
Russian Poland, to enter into direct re-
lations with a syndicate of Polish mer-
chants with the view Of supplying French
goods for the Russian goods now under
boycott in Poland. The French visitors
were received with enthusiasm.
All Europe has been laughing at the
outcome of the ong-controverted claim
made by NJ. Lemoine of Paris that he had
a formula for making diamonds. When
the time came for Lemoine to make good
his promise to produce a diamond. as de-
manded by the court on behalf of the
man who had advanced money on the al
legged secret, Lemoine did not appear. He
had run away. Thereupon the Judge made
public the formula, which had been placed
in his possession, which proved to be
nothing more than already was known
about the effects of the electric furnace
upon particles of carbon.
The revolution in Yunnan and South
China is becoming so serious that the
Pekin authorities have issued orders to
the authorities of foreign provinces TO
assemble armies to attack the rebels who
organized a movement which threatens
to be the largest of its kind since the
Staping rebellion.
Information received at Offices of the
Wisconsin Central indicates that rapid
progress is being made in the building of
the Duluth extension of that line Rails
have already been laid into Superior and
considerable blasting is being done at Du-
luth in order to clear a right of way for
the new line.
The campaign now being waged by the
London newspapers against Admiral Lord
Charles Beresford has reached a point
where it seems inevitable that the govern
ment must interfere in some way TO abate
what is becoming public scandal.
Again war stalks abroad in the Central
American republics, despite the efforts OF
the United States and Mexico to create
a peace court for the settlements of diff
ferences. Revolutionists from Salvador
have actually opened hostilities by cap
turing two Honduran towns, and have
proclaimed a government under former
President Bonilla. Nicaragua is said to
be preparing to send aid to Honduras.