Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The official announcement was made in London that George Curzon had accepted the post of viceroy of India. The ministry at Lisbon has resigned and Scnor Jose Lucauio has been charged with the task of forming a new cabinet. In a collision between..a passenger and a freight train near Ponte Decirno, Italy, nine persons were killed and forty seriously injured. , ! . It is announced that Lieut. Col. Macallum, Governor of Lagos, west Africa, will succeed Sir Herbert Murray as Governor of Newfoundland. ‘ ' Kaiser Wilhelm had a narrow escape the other day. ,Hi» horse,became'. frightened and threw him to the ground. His injuries wore not serious. W. Ifamsdcn, for over, thirty-five years British consul at' de Ciiba.vfcas jdst died at Kingston. . Jamaica, In‘the fifty-eighth' year of his age. .Mount A'esuvius.' IJuly, is .now in a mate of enaption from n new oratep?*The eruption is supposed to be connected with %e seismic disturbance felt at Messina in southern Italy. v A : firy resulting in appalling loss of life wa uti turned to the ground nnd between thirty

and forty inmates were cremated in their beds. Senor A. Laxo Arriaga wired the Associated Press from Long Branch, N. J„ where he is passing a part of the hot spell, that he had received a cablegram from his home Government saying: “Revolution quickly suppressed- Peace prevails in Guatemala.” The Japanese imbroglio of 1897 has been settled by the payment of $75,000 to Japan by the Hawaiian Government. In making the payment the Government does not admit the justice of the claim or the right of Japan to indemnity. The payment was made at the request of President McKinley. Advices from Kalgoorlie, West Australia, say thousands of people are rushing to the vicinity of Lake Gwynne, close to Kanowna, where a nuggej of gold weighing 95 pounds wAs recently discovered. The excitement in the mining districts is reported to be intense. . In Brussels, Belgium, while a policeman was arresting a militant anarchist named Willems, the latter shot and wounded the officer and then escaped. The anarchist also shot several persons who attempted to capture him, but he was finally arrested and lodged in jail. Later the police visited Willems’ lodgings, where they found two anarchists who promptly opened fire at the officers. The policemen replied to this fire, fatally wounding one of the anarchists. His companion was captured. By exercising the good offices of the United States tactfully Secretary Day has probably succeeded in averting a severe crisis iu the relations between Italy and Colombia, growing out of the Cerruti affair. A cablegram has been received at the Department of State in Washington from Rome saying out of regard for the United States the Italian Government had telegraphed Admiral Candinani at Cartagenu, Colombia, to give the Colombian Government eight months’ time in which to settle with Cerruti’s creditors under the terms of President Cleveland's award.