Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Ex-Empress Eugenie is reported to be seriously ill at Paris.

The correspondent of the London Daily News at Odessa gives, under reserve, a report that the Russian charge d’affaires at Pekin, M. Pavloff, will soon be removed, and he regards it as indicating a Russian backdown.

El Epoca of Madrid states that the police are investigating an anarchistic plot against the life of a high political personuge which was to have been carried out upon the occasion of the anniversary of the assassinntion of Senor Canovas del Castillo.

At Paris, Le Temps says the United States has notified the French minister for foreign affairs, M. Delcasse, that it desires to enlarge the reciprocity treaty by including new products. France, the paper adds, has accepted the suggestion and the negotiations on the subject will be opened. 1

George N. Curzon, the parliamentary secretary for the foreign office in London, has accepted the office of viceroy of India, in succession to the Earl of Elgin. Mr. Curzon married Miss Mary Leiter, the daughter of L. Z. Leiter of Chicago. He was formerly parliamentary under secretary for India.

The London Statist predicts a great wave of American prosperity after the war and active European business in American securities. “Cube,” it says, employment to a vast amount of capital, and the stimulus to industry there will react upon the United States. The investments in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines will particularly benefit railways.” F. W. Beasley of Miles City, Mont., has

returned to St Michael’s after prospecting fourteen months along the Siberia* coast In company with Louis SpitcheL They were ordered out of the country by the Russians and Darrowly escaped imprisonment. They bring news of the imprisonment of six Americans in a convict settlement 300 miles interior from East Cape. Beasley says that lie learned this from a Russian official. The Russian said the men had been arrested in 1896 for persistently violating the laws prohibiting prospecting, and were sentenced to long terms in the mines of Siberia. The following message regarding the revolution in Guatemala has been received in San Francisco from a friend and supporter of Gen. Morales, now at Tampachula: “Prospero Morales is at San Marcos. Quezalteuango favors the revolution. We are on the way to Ocos. — Miguelin.” Morales is said to have 5,000 Remington rifles and 700 men. Details of the revolt are difficult to obtain, as telegraphic communication is interrupted. Morales is represented to have little means of his own, but he is supported by wealthy men in the liberal party. There is believed to be an understanding between Jose Leon Castillo and Morales, both of whom are candidates for the presidency, (hat the one who has the strongest following shall receive the other’s support. What they are bent on is the defeat of Cabrera.

A dispatch from Pekin to a London news agency says: “Efforts are being made by the British colony at New Chwang, in conjunction with the Japanese, to obtain concessions for the neighborhood as a proposed railroad terminus. The matter has been referred to the local Tautai (the ruler of two or more departments of a province united in a Tan), whose dilatoriness in the matter is declared to be due to Russian bribes. It js impossible to overestimate the importance to the English of obtaining a proper footing in a region where already Russian Influence preponderates. A great proportion of the New Chwang trade is in American goods, and this fact renders the co-opera-tion of the United States minister and his support of the British demand necessary, as the gravity of the situation is undoubted. Letters have been received from leading British merchants in North China confirming the reports of the uneasiness prevailing among the Chinese, who regard the issue between Russia and England aa likely to decide the future of China.” Information has been received in Washington from London through private channels to the effect that the Indian mints are to be reopened to free coinage, and the assertion is made that this will occur at an unexpectedly early date. The report of the Indian commission is to be published before the Ist of September, and this is expected to throw some light upon the details of the matter. The announcement that the important steps of reopening the mints hill take place comes from a source which is usually reliable. There is a strong effort to have the ratio changed from 16 to 1 to 22 to 1, and it is asserted that a willingness to assent to this change has been evinced by both the United States and France. The establishment of a ratio of 22 to 1 would have the effect of increasing the present price of silver, but it would, on the other hand, probably prevent forever the restoration of the ratio of 16 to 1. There is some disposition to doubt the accuracy of the information, but this doubt appears to arise largely from the fact that it is unexpected.