Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

George Dambmann, an American, who is prominent in Paris in Franeo-American business circles, has been decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor. Sir Henry Irving is said to have been advised by his physician to drop the enres of management, and as a consequence it is understood he will sell the Lyceum Theater at London. The Viceroy of Nankin, China, has refused to grant further concessions of territory to France, as a result, it is believed, of the protests of the American and British ministers.' The Tweedie Company’s steamer Catania, recently reported in great danger, has arrived at St. Michael’s, Azores. Her

s unset, ventilators, boats and deck works were carried away. The Duke of Marlborough has been appointed paymaster general in succession to the Earl of Hopetonn, who was'recently made lord chamberlain, succeeding the late USarl of l>athom. The business partnership existing between Sir Henry Irving nnd Ellen Terry has terminated. Miss Terry has retired from the Lyceum Theater enterprise and will without delay form a company of her own. The London Dally Chronicle urges the United States to demand of Spain the pardon of Col. Julison San Martin, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for having abandoned Ponce, Porto Rico, when Gen. Miles’ troops landed. Viscount Cromer, British diplomatic agent in Egypt, in an address to Soudanese sheikhs at Cairo said: “For the future you will be governed by the queen and the khedive. The sole representative in the Soudan of the two governments will be the sirdar.” Baron and Baroness do Bara, clinrged with using the United States mails for fraudulent purposes, have been held at Jacksonville, Fla., in default of $5,000 bail for the former and $2,500 for the latter for trial before the Uhited States Court at Chicago. Quesuay de Bnurepaire, president of the section of the French Court of Cassation, which is dealing with the Dreyfus ease, has resigned his office in consequence of a disagreement regarding the. Dreyfus inquiry. Le Soir says it learns from an indisputable source that the Court of Cassation is convinced that Dreyfus was justly condemned. •