Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

MaUetoa Laonpepa, King of Samoa, died of typhoid fever. Prince Chica of Roumania has sent a proposal of marriage to Princess Chimay, formerly Clara Ward. It is asserted on reliable authority that the aspect of affairs between Chili and Argentine in connection -with the boundary dispute is greatly improved. During a heavy thunderstorm twenty peasants sought shelter in an old house in the suburbs of Feggia, Italy. The building collapsed and eighteen were killed. The entire available British fleet in Chinese waters has arrived at Wei-llai-Wei to support the demands of Sir Claude McDonald, British minister to China. Herbert Naylor-Leylan, husband of Jennie Chamberlain, has been elected to the seat in the British Parliament vacated by George N. Curzon’S acceptance of the viceroyalty of India. i Frau Danneberg, a talented German portrait painter at Berlin, has committed suicide because, it is alleged, she could get no news of her son, who fought with the American army In Cuba. The Czar of Russia has invited the pow-, era of Europe to take part in an international conference as a means of insuring

real and lasting pence and terminating the progressive increase of armament. ■' The Thingvalla line steamer Norge sunk the French fishing schooner Lacoquette of Bayonne, France, on the Grand Banks. The captain and eight seamen were saved. Sixteen went down with the unfortunate vessel. A woman known as Vicomtesse de Henrict threw herself from a second-story window at Paris and is so seriously injured that recovery is considered hopeless. She is a member of a wealthy California family. The imperial ministry at the interior at Berlin, by a circular to the different German governments, calls attention to the fact that American wheat flour is frequently mixed with corn and asks that steps be taken to prevent the importation flour. Cardinal Rampolla, the Pope’s secretary of state, has telegraphed Archbishop Ireland to call on President McKinley and thank him for his declaration concerning the Catholic religion in the territories captured by the United States. The Pope' probably will make Archbishop Ireland a cardinal. It is estimated that during his pontificate Leo XIII. has amassed $20,000,000, including presents of precious stones, gold and silver to the value of $10,000,000. President Kruger of the Transvaal republic is said to have presented the Pope with the largest diamond in the world. It is valued at $4,000,000. Advices received from the island of Barbadoes, belonging to Great Britain, report widespread potato riots. Riotous gangs of men have been looting the produce of the plantations during the night. Following the recent shooting of the speaker of the house of assembly, these demonstrations are considered to be of a serious nature and more troubles are anticipated. The convention which has been engaged at Managua, Nicaragua, in formulating a constitution for the .United States of Central America, embracing Salvador, Honduras afid Nicaragua, has concluded its work. Commissioners were appointed to convene at Amalpa, Honduras, on the Ist of November next. These commissioners will supplant the diet of the greater republic of Central America, and will assume provisional federal powers. They will make preparations for the election on Dec. 1 of a president, senators, representatives and federal judges for terms of four years and for the installation in office of those elected on March 1, 1899. The federal district includes more than 3.000 square miles on the Pacific coast. The constitution has not been submitted to a vote of the people.