Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Herr Theodore Fontane, the German writer and poet, is dead. He was born in 1819. The Frepeh vessel Ville de Fecamp foundered off Fecamp and her crew of thirty-six was drowned. Dr. William P. Martin, an American missionary, has been appointed president of the Imperial University of Chino. An agreement between Chili and Argentina to submit the boundary disputes between the two countries to arbitration has been signed. - Heidelbach, lekelheimer & Co. have engaged at London $600,000 gold and Kountze Brothers $250,000 for import to the United States. i ; Heavy storms have prevailed ift the Baltic sea, and 120 fishermen have been drowned between Polaugen and Libnu,

■eaport towns of fee province of Gourland, Russia. Tbeßritish steamer Huelira was sunk in collision .with the .Spanish steamer Carthagena. ' Alt hut one seaman and fee captain of the Huelva, who were landed at Gibraltar, were drowned. The French wheat crop is estimated at 123.000,000 hectoliters, the largest since 1874, when the yield was 136,000,000 hectoliters. This will render France independent of foreign importations of wheat.’ Lord Mayor Davies paid a visit of cercmony to the American peace commissioners at London for the purpose, he said, of testifying “to the good will and affection i of the people of London to the United States.” An imperial edict just issued at Pekin definitely announces 4hnt the Emperor of China has resigned his power to the dowager empress, who has ordered the ministers to deliver to her in future their official reports. It is officially announced in London that the Hon. George N. Curzon, until recently parliamentary secretary for the foreign office, who is to succeed the Earl of Elgin as viceroy of India, has been elevated to the peerage ns Baron Curzon of Kedelston. Floods and typhoons wrought great damage along eastern and northern shores of Formosa. Five thousand buildings destroyed or rendered unhabitable and 400 people killed and injured is the record of the ruin in the northern district about Taipeh, Formosa’s capital. According to an article in. the Fortnightly Review, the Anglo-German agreement provides in detail for England and Germany to become joint heirs by purchase of all the Portnguses possession in Africa. The first outcome of this, the paper says, will be the leasing of Delagoa Bay to England. Australian papers report the wreck of tlie schooner C. C. Funk, at Blinder's Island, with ten of her crew. Only two seamen, Albert Krough and John Peterson, were saved, aiid but one body had been recovered when the Alameda sailed. It was that of Peter Xeilson. The vessel was driven ashore by a gale and went to pieces in the surf. M. Ollivier, one of the editors of La Lauterne at Paris, was shot by Mme. Paulmier, wife of a deputy. After being arrested she explained that La Lauterne had slandered herself and hhr husband because her husband had written the letter to Gen. Cbanoine, the minister of war, with reference to putting a stop to the attacks upon the army provoked by the Dreyfus affair.