Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Prince of Wales has decided to visit America next summer. A Chicago packing firm is arranging to erect cold storage warehouses in Cuba. Henri Laveden, the author, has been elected a member of the French Academy. The treaty of peace between the United States and Spain has been signed al Paris. Le Soir of Paris says the French Government has decided to bring Dreyfus back to Paris. The death is announced of William Black, the novelist, at his home in Brighton, England, at the age of 57 years. Sir William Anderson, director general of the royal ordnance factories and part inventor of cordite, died in London in hil sixty-fourth year. Dispatches to London papers from Berlin and Madrid give conflicting reports regarding the Carolines, the former declaring the negotiations for purchase of the islands are at the point of completion, while the latter deny that Germany is negotiating for the Carolines. Oscar Strauss, United States minister to Turkey, had an audience with the Sultan. Assurances were given to the American minister regarding a satisfactory settlement of all pending questions between the United States and Turkey, including the payment of indemnity for American losses in Armenia. General Castellanos accuses the Cuban general, Julio Sanguilly, and Jose Lacrot of a plot to cause an uprising and seize the city at a time when the Spanish garrison is greatly weakened and before the American troops have arrived In numbers sufficient to enforce order. He declares that the recent riot was provoked by Sanguilly and Lacrot and he issued directions for their arrest. ConsulSkinnerat Marseilles has informed the State Department that if America,® coal companies can supply the right kiul of coal at the right price—namely, at about $7.72 per ton delivered into the coal bunkers at Marseilles, they have before them the opportunity for a new and important market. The high price at Marseilles is ascribed to the shortage in the British output owing to the strikes. Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech, said Great Britain had failed to reach an agreement with Russia touching China, and that France’s plan of exasperation had prevented a settled policy in Egypt. He intimated that nn entente has been reached with Germany that may make for peace and for extended trade; but the sig* nificant fact was brought out that unless an agreement is effected with Russia there are dangers of grave complications.