Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Manuel Estrada Cabrera has been elect od to the presidency of Guatemala. “Blanche Roosevelt,” the noted singer, composer and author, died in London. Li Hung Chang's dismissal from the Chinese foreign office has been confirmed. The Spanish Senate has adopted the Ilispano-Ameriean protocol by a sitting and, standing vote. The Stars and Stripes were raised with the British union jack at a review of British soldiers in London. Three hundred followers of the dead rebel lender Prospero Morales were shot during election riots in Guatemala. . Continued fierce fighting is reported in Candio, Nearly oue hundred British subjects fire among those killed and wounded.. If any effort is made in the revised Dreyfus ease to implicate Emperor William the Germen ambassador will be called home. Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, was stabbed to the heart at Geneva, Switzerland, by an Italian anarchist named Lucehiul. She died almost immediately. Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of Emperor William, is suffering from diphtheria at Berlin. The younger children

t: . , •> ♦' The perils Lokel Anzeiger says that a ; fortltlpt ago an AtteittpLWKs made to assassinate Queen Wilhelmina near Amersfort, province of Utrecht, on the road between Castle Soostdyt ard Baara. A man emerged from behind a tree and fired a revolver at her majesty. The bullet missed the queen, but plowed the cheek of a lady in attendance. The would-be assassin was arrested. He is supposed to be an English anarchist.