Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

General Gome* has published a letter at Havana declaring that “forced guidance is hateful to us” and offers his services to assist the natives in erecting a republic in Cuba. Attempts to enforce the nse of the Russian language ip the schools and iug service in the Russian army is bitterly opposed by the Finlanders, and an uprising is feared. M. Durand, formerly a lieutenant of French infantry, has been arrested in Paris on a charge of communicating military secrets to a foreign power. Another arrest of a similar nature has been made at Nancy. Prof. Frank of the Agricultural University of Berlin has reported to the Prussian Government that the San Jose scale is non-existent in Germany, but that a similar, insect,'the “aspidiotus ostrae formis,” is indigenous. Gen. Henry wili place the religious orders in Porto Ricp in possession of the buildings from which they had been ejected and will restrain any further proceedings to dispossess them until their rights are judicially determined. At Marseilles, in a meeting of the antiDreyfus League of Patriots, a hostile demonstration on the part of some Dreyfusites led to serious fighting in the streets, during which revolvers were fired. The police repressed the disturbances, but a number of people were injured. Many •nests were made. Australian colonial premiers have agreed on a federation plan. The legiala-

and two houses of parliament, the members of each to be elected on the basis of manhood suffrage. Seven ministers will form the executive government and a aew federal capital is to be established at New South Wales. Valiente’s gendarmes, searching the woods between Mayari and San Lnis, Cuba, for the missing postal courier, Antonio Arturo Varios, who’ left Mayari for San Lnis with a mail poach, intending to (traverse the entire road, have reported the finding of the body. The courier was evidently murdered, as many wounds from machetes were fontid on the body. His horse was wandering two miles off, bnt no trace of the mail pouch has been found. Advices from the Orient say that a Canadian woman, who joined the China inland mission as the wife of Rev. Mr. Itynhart, a Belgian missionary, has reached Taehieulu with a terrible story of cru-r city and suffering among the fierce mountain tribesmen of Thibet. Her husband -was brutally murdered after their son had died from exhaustion. She was chased like a hunted deer for two months through the mountains on the border of China and Thibet. She was shot at time and again and pelted with bowlders from the cliffs overhead, but finally succeeded in reaching a mission. She and her husband were attacked while attempting to cross into Thibet.