Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN

The French cabinet has decided that the full duty on wheat be restored. An incipient insurrection in which many prominent islanders were concerned, was discovered by the Spanish authorities in Porto Rico. The headquarters of the rebels was destroyed and two of the ringleaders have been put to death. It is officially announced that Queen Victoria has appointed the following to be high commissioners, in pursuance of the agreement signed at Washington on May 30, for a joint commission to adjust the Cunadinn-Americnn differences: Baron Herscholl, lord high chancellor; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Canada; Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir Louis Henry Davies und John Charlton.

The following cabinet has been formed at Rome to succeed tbe ministry of the Marquis di Rudini, which recently resigned: Premier and minister of the interior, Gen. Pelloux; foreign affairs, Admiral Canevgro; finance, Mr. Carcano; treasury, Senator Vacchelli; war,"Gen. San rnrzauo; marine, Admiral Palumbo; public instruction, Mr. Baccelli; agriculture, Mr. Fortis; posts aud telegraphs, Mr. Nuuzionasi.

The Vienna correspondent of the London Standard says: “There have been terrific thunder and hail storms with cloudbursts in Hungary, especially in the north and northwest districts. Property and crops to the value of 40,000,000 francs have been damaged or destroyed. Many persons and innumerable animals have been killed. There have been similar storms in Austria, where also there hjiye been fatalities and the crop losses serious.”