Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Bolivia is again in the throes of a revolution. The Spanish Government has agreed to pay the January coupon on the Cuban debt. Lord Charles Reresfotd urges British occupation of Kiang-Xiag. China, in order to control rise Yangtze valley. Japan and Russia are said to he trying to negotiate loans in the United States aggregating $400.0001,000. The Russian Government has ordered ten new destroyers for the Pacific squadron, to be completed within taro years. Chinese rebels are said to have massacred a French priest and 100 converts in the town of Chnng-Yang in Hoo-Pe province. George O. Larson, corporal Company A. Utah Artillery, and James Healy. private Company I. Eighteenth Infantry, are dead in Manila. The Spanish evacuation comaaiaafenrs have informed the Americas commission era that the Havana suburbs. Gem and Jesus del Monte, have been evacuated.

Terry, husband of the former opera singer, Sibyl Sanderson, left his entire fortune to his widodr. The first train from Merv, Russian Turkestan. 300 miles southeast of Khiva, arrived at Kusk, in the Jamshidi province of Afghanistan, the line thus being completed to within ninety-five mites of Herat. Advices by the Empress of India soy that Russia has sold 500,000 obsolete Berdan rifies to China at a large price thcongh the Itusso-Chinese bank. Mancha troops throughout the empire are to be armed at once with the rifles, f Count Casa Sola, in an interview, has confirmed the reports that savage cruelties have been applied to the Carlists arrested at Bilbao, Spain, in order to extract information from them regarding, the armament and designs of the Carlists. According to a dispatch from Shanghai the rebels have seized the town of Chung Yaag. fifty miles southwest of Ichang, province of Hoo Pe, on the north bank of the Yang-tse-Kiang, 200 miles above Chin Kiang Foo. They have massacred a French priest and 100 converts. In the Italian chamber Signor del Baono asserted without ministerial contradiction the existence of an agreement, equivalent to a treaty, between Italy and Great Britain for the maintenance of the statu qno in Africa along the Red Sea and the Mediterranean as well as in the Sondan. According to a dispatch to the London Morning Post from Hankow, on the Yaagtse-Kiang, about 700 miles from the sea. a French expedition has been dispatched np the river to Kwei-Chau, and ©ue gunboat is already above Nanking, the “southern capital” of China, about ninety miles from the river’s mouth. Captain General Castellanos has forbidden the letting of any important contracts for public improvements in • HaTana while he remains in office. This action was taken at the request of the American commission, the object being to prevent the railroading Jhrough of big contracts before the time of American occupation. The British steamer Pierremont, which arrived at New Castle-on-Tyne and subsequently sailed for the Mediterranean, has been in collision with the British steamer Ilios. The collision took place in the North Sea under conditions not explained. The Ilios foundered and the Pierremont was badly damaged. It is beßeved that twenty persons were drowned. News has come from Major McDonald, who is at the head of an expedition from the south, that shows the last link in the British chain “from the Cape to Cairo" is complete. The Major has established stations all the way northward from Uganda to Lake Rudolph. He is now about to descend the River Sobat, which empties into the Nile, and make his way toward Fashoda.