Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is said Zola will soon return to France and continue his championship of Dreyfus. It is reported that King Menelek of Abyssinia is helping the French in an- , occupation of Faskoda. The Italian Government has proposed to the powers that international action be taken against anarchists. It is announced that diplomatic relations between Italy and the republic of Colombia have been severed. Premier Sagasta of Spain cut off discussion of the peace proposition iu the Cortes by proroguing that body. Forty-three of the ringleaders in the recent Cretan riots have been surrendered to the British admiral nt Candia. McDougall’s flour mills and other factories in Mill Dock, London, have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at $325,000. At Bradford, England, an electric street car was derailed while descending a hill. Fifty persons were seriously injured, several of them fatally. A high Russian official says the famine in the Volga district Will necessitate the importation by Russia of 80,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, ;. x , , TJie Argentine minister at I’aria says that the boundary dispute between Chili and Argentine will be submitted to the arbitration of Queen Victoria, A commercial panic in San Domingo threatens to make serious trouble. Exchange has risen 100 per cent within a month. The situation of the present Government is unsafe. Tile imperial Chinese Government has Emitted to the Peking syndicate of London, England, the right to open and work fninea and to construct and operate ratl-

roads la the empire free from Chines* control. This is the first concession ever granted by the Chinese Government to s foreign’ syndicate. Mail advices from Japan state that another formidable rebellion against Japanese rule has broken out in Formosa, this time in the southern part of the island. Two battles have been fought, one near Taiehu, the other near Taihoku. The tribes were defeated by the Japanese troops and the police, v As a result of the French cabinet’s decision to appoint a special commission to, review the documents in the Dreyfus case, Minister for War Zurlinden and Minister of Public Works Tiliaye hnvc resigned. Gen. Chanoine Was appointed to succeed the former and Senator Godin was given the place vacated by the latter. J. W. Jago, formerly chief officer of the White Star line steamer Britannic, and John Ivynaston, third officer of the same steamer, both of whom have been convicted of robbing the mails on board the Britannic, were sentenced in London, the former to eight and the latter to one year’s imprisonment at hard labor. <l’he Fekin correspondent of the London Times says: “Despite Lord Salisbury’s declaration that he would brook no interference from any other power in the NiuChwung railway loan contract, he has now yielded to all the conditions Russia imposed. As a result the negotiations with the English syndicate have been broken off and those with the Russo-Chin-ese bank have been resumed.” At Seoul, Corea, it is reported that a high official of the palace, named Ivo, has made a coufession that he ordered the cook of the royal household to poison food intended for the king and crown prince, both of whom became seriously ill, The official further confessed that the poisoning plot was instigated by a former interpreter attached to the Russian legation there. The Turkish Government has sent a circular to the powers, alleging that the British provoked the disorders at Candia, claiming that the present situation is due to the measures adopted by the powers in Crete and protesting against the bombardmeut of Candia. The Porte announces its refusal to withdraw the Turkish troops from Crete, in spite of the decision of the admirals that such a step is absolutely necessary.