Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Emperor William is to be “personally conducted” by an agent of the Cook Tourist Company during hfs visit to the holy land. Jt is reported that the Grand Duke George of Russia is dangerously sick. The dowager empress has gone to the Crimea to nurse him. ' . . A dispatch from San Juan de Porto Rico to Madrid says a new insular cabinet has been formed Under the presidency of Senor Nules Riveira. A wealthy American named Riegel has been killed while attempting to ascend Mont Blanc without a guide. His corpse Was found on a glacier. Admiral Canavaro, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Argentine Minister to Italy, .Enrique Merino, have signed a general arbitration treaty between Italy and Argentina. President Alfaro of the republic of Ecuador has issued a decree granting a general amnesty to his political enemies, many of whom are in the United States and in Europe. The only exceptions made are Bishops Schumacher and Massia, for their prominent attempts to incite a revolution. A violent shock of earthquake lasting a minute was felt at Concepcion, capital of the Chilian province of that name, and at Talcahuano, on the Bay of Concepcion, eight miles distant from Concepcion City. Many houses were destroyed and the telegraph and electric light wires were severed. The inhabitants were terrified and fled from their homes, spending the night in the open. Nineteen Austrian sailors who arrived at Havre by La Bretagne were taken before a magistrate and confronted by four second-class passengers, survivors of La Bourgogne, on charges of cruelty and brutality at the time of the collision between La Bourgogne and the British ship Cromartyshire off Sable Island July 4. Although the evidence offered against them was very slight, six of the accused were held on remand. ( Mail advices received in San Francisco

from Guatemala contain information te the effect that the pending revolution in tjie southern republic has reached alarming proportions. Prospero Morales, one of the leaders of the last uprising against the late dictator, tleype Barrios, has again shown his hand, and has boldly issued a proclamation palpably directed against President Cabriera, the present executive of Guatemala. Morales is planning a grand coup, his intention being to carry the forthcoming elections, and, if possible assume the reins of government. Morales is gathering an army about him and collecting arms and ammunition. He is now at Margrues del Suchiate, not having dared enter the city of Quesaltenango, notwithstanding President Cabriera’s decree of amnesty to all political refugees. Backed by Cecil Rhodes and Earl Grey, members of the board of directors of the British South Africa Company, Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell qf the Methodist Episcopal Church, whose diocese includes the continent of Africa, has succeeded in obtaining an appropriation from the board of missions, which will enable him to plant the public school system of the United States in Africa. When seen about the matter. Bishop Hartzell said: “I am commencing this work in the little republic of Liberia. Already, under the fostering care of our church, a college has been established at Monrovia, in West Africa, which has 1,000 scholars enrolled under the control of a faculty of five. Prof. A. P. Camphor, a black man-edu-cated in this country, is at the head of this institution. It is my purpose to begin at the foundation, establishing first the primary school, and in a short time I hope to have 2,000 pupils under the charge of competent teachers sent from the United States. To assist me to carry out this idea I have been authorized to secure five teachers from among the educated young colored people of the State, and our church has pledged itself to pay one-half the expenses incurred for salary and transportation. The salary to be allowed these teachers, besides their keep, will be only S2OO. I am looking for some one who is interested enough in Africa to foot the other half of the bill incident to the extension of this work. My project also includes the establishment of industrial schools in Liberia.”