Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Don Curios, the Spanish pretender, is goinjfcto London to raise a loan. Lord Rosebery, in a speech at Epsom, referring to the Fashodti dispute, declared that tlreat Britain will submit to no compromise in matter of inroads on its territorial rights. Great Britain. Russia, France and Italy have decided to reject the porte’s suggested modification/ in the ultimatum to the Turkish government on the evacuation of the Island of (A’ete. Tito American and Spanish contmissions have reached an agreement regarding the evacuation of Cuba,' and it is stated that the date by which the last of Blanco’s soldiers must leave is Jan. 1. The Swedish minister of marine has decided to propose to the riksdag that a credit of over, 20,000,000 kroner be voted for naVal requirements. These will include the purchase of three first-class ironclads, ammunition, torpedoes and submarine mines. The London Chronicle says that for the purpose of marking his satisfaction with the fact his daughter will be the first American vicereine of India, Levi Z. Leiter, father of .Lady Kedleston (Mrs. George N. Curzon), will present to her a residence in London. Right Honorable St. John Broderick, member of parliament for the Guildford division of Surrey and under secretary of state for war, has been appointed under secretary of istnte for foreign nffairs in succession to Lord Curzon of Kedleston, the new Viceroy of India. The British ambassador at Faris has notified France’s foreign minister. M. Del-

caase, it is said, that the British >•<«■ meat will require a definite reply as fa whether Major Marchand is to be withdrawn from Fashoda or not upon the receipt of Marchand’s report Floods in Japan have done great damage to crojis and many lives have been lost. Aichi prefecture, which seems 1a have suffered most, lost thirty-five houses washed away. 1,200 overthrown. 170 partly wrecked. 412 injured and 5,000 inundated. Seven lives were lost. The police of Alexandria, Egypt, arrested nine Italian anarchists and thereby frustrated a plot against Emperor W - liam on his way to the Holy Land. The first to be arrested is a case keeper, a weUknown anarchist, in whose house the police discovered two wire-l>ound bombs of great strength, full of bullets.