Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

News has been received from Teheran, Persia, that the shah is much alarmed in consequence of the famine that prevails in the interior provinces. Measures of immediate relief nre under consideration. A Constantinople correspondent says: “A plot to assassinate the Sultan has been denounced by a conspirator, but the police, by too precipitately arresting four of the plotters, enabled several others to escape.” Passengers on the mail steamer Aorangi, from Australia, say that the steamer Southern Cross, with her band of intrepid explorers under Captain Borchrevink, has. left Hobart on her voyage toward the Antarctic. The robbery of over £OO,OOO from Parr’s Bank in London took a dramatic tuen when the chairman of the bank announcf,ed at a meeting of the shareholders that £40,000 in the biggest notes had been returned to the bank by post. The Bulgarian, cabinet has resigned, owing, it is believed, to the discontent aroused by the adherence of Stoiloff, the premier, to the schemes for Macedonian autonomy, which are considered to be antagonistic to Bulgarian aspirations for obtaining predominant influence in Macedonia. ' The Norwegian bark Danea, from Cardiff for Pernambuco, was towed into Queenstown harbor disabled, after battling fifty-one days with storms in the Atlantic. Five different steamers had had her in tow, but in every cose the hawser broke and the would-be rescuer was

obltped to abandon the bark. The ere# was almost dead with exhaustion when finally succored. The steamer Aorangi from Australasia brings details of a terrible cyclone which swept -the south seas, devastating villages, wrecking shipping and causing many deaths. At Samara), tn-New Guinea, the gale w n terrific. Cocoa palms went down by hundreds and were carried to sea. Torrents of fain fell. Twelve vessels were wrecked. The ketches Bebem and Baidan were lost off Goodenough Island and Mr. Kennedy, manager of the New Gninea Development Company, was drowned, together with his crew, save one boy. The cotter Ivy was lost in the Kossman group and Captain Godel and crew were drowned. In the Solomons the hurricane did most damage, whole villages being destroyed. Hundreds of cocoa plantations were-uprooted and yam patches leveled. Over five hundred natives are reported to have been killed.