Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Mine. Dreyfus has received a letter from her husband in his own handwriting. Theodore Sedgewick Fay, the diplomatist and author, died at Berlin. He was 91 years old. According to a Vienna dispatch, England has leased the Island of Sokotra, off the Gulf of Aden, to the United States for a naval coaling station. At Patras, Greece, a severe earthquake shock occurred, causing the inhabitants to become panic stricken. A second shock was experienced. No fatalities have been reported. General Wood issued a notice at Santiago imposing a fine of SI,OOO upon any person promoting a hull fight, and a fine of SIOO on a promoter or witness of a cock fight. The French cabinet has decided to authorize a loan of 160,000,000 francs for the purpose of establishing an Indo-Chin-ese railroad system iu connection with the Chinese railroads. The mad mullah, who, with 600 men, has been threatening to pass the Swat frontier, has crossed the Swat river, and fighting has taken place between his followers and the Indo-British forces. An umbrella maker of Oldenburg, who boasted that he had been chosen by lot to assassinate Emperor William on the latter’s return from Palestine, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after having been convicted of leze majesty. At the opening of a new college at Pe-resa-Argentina, near Turin, Italy, the great hall collapsed, carrying down the assembly In the ruins. Three bishops were injured, one of whom has since died. Scores of persons were killed or seriously hurt. A dispatch to a London news agency from Shanghai says that the admiral of the Chinese squadron has hoisted the British flag over Tiug-Uai and several other islands of the Chusnn archipelago, and that ship* are cruising near the Chusan island*. The Cuban colonial cabinet formally resigned to Gen. Jiminei Castellanos, tiie new governor and captain general of "ftuba, their respective portfolios. Gen. Castellanos, however, officially reappoint-

ed them and requested them to remain la office until the Spanish flag had been lowered in Cuba. President Iglesias of Costa Rica was the recipient of two notable courtesies at Washington, being the guest of honor at a breakfast attended by prominent officials and South American diplomats, and later being taken by President McKinley for » drive about the city in the White House carriage. France has notified the State Department that a decree will issue presently prohibiting the importation of trees, shrubs and plants from the United States, and requiring an inspection of all fruits, fresh and dried, at the point of landing in France. France fears the tree pest known ns the San Jose scale. The trade affected is very small. While a religious ceremony was in progress in the vestry room of the Church of St. Germain des Pros, at Paris, where many girls from the schools were in attendance, the cinematograph lamps were suddenly extinguished and a fearful panic ensued, everybody instantly recalling the charity bazaar fire. The priests finally succeeded in allaying the panic, but not before forty girls were injured by trampling. many being seriously hurt. A dispatch from Elbing, the seaport of West Phussia, says an attempt was made upon the life of the Czar while his majesty was returning from Copenhagen. Just before the Czar’s special train crossed the bridge between Boehmenboefen and Lagern a switchman discovered that the bridge had been barricaded. By almost superhuman efforts, as a result of which he is now in a hospital, the switchman succeeded in removing the obstacles sufficiently to permit of the passage of the imperial train.