Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Captain Dreyfus is reported to be confined in n Paris prison. Corea’s cabinet has resigned because of dissatisfaction ove'r the refusal of the ministers to accept a proposition to form, a parliament. Disastrous typhoons, sand storms and floods are said to have destroyed hundreds of villages and caused the death of thousands of persons in the orient. The British .steatswr 1 ” Waterloo sailed from San Francisco for London with 59,695 cases of sahnon nnd 34,430 cases of canned fruit. The cargo is valued at $351,000. Germany is about to have an apple crop smaller in quantity and poorer in quality than hab been gathered in recent years, according to United States Consul General Frank Mason at Frankfort. r The death of Barisch, the employe in the bacteriological department of Prof. Nethr nagle's establishment at Vienna, who

contracted the bubonic plague them while assisting in cultivating the plague bacilli for purposes of scientific investigation, haa almost created a plague panic in Vienna. When Ferdinand W. Peck, the United States commissioner to the exhibition of 1900, arrived in Paris the space allotted In’ the United States at the exposition grounds was 175,000 feet. Mr. Peck’s first gain was 0,000 square feet, and be has just secured 22,000 square feet more. Captain Abercrombie’s government exploring party, in the interior of the Copper river country, lost au employe named Archer while attempting to cross the Tonsina river on a raft. Archer was swept off the raft by overhanging brush and whirled away, and nearly all the supplies went into the river. Great havoc has been caused by floods in the low-lying quarter! of Fiume, Aus-tria-Hungary, which have been submerged. The flooded parts of the city Include a large portion of the business section of Fiume. Large numbers of animals have perished. The damage done is estimate# at 2,000,000 florins. Natives recently massacred a Lutheran missionary and his family at the town of Zoutpansberg aud the Transvaal Government sent an expedition to punish them. The affair has now assumed serious proportions. Chief Opefu, with 20,000 followers, fully armed, and four cannons supplied by white traders, attacked the laager. Heavy fighting followed.