Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The American forces made a combined attack upon Galoocnn. Philippines, and reduced it in short order. Dreyfus has refused to reply to written interrogations of the Court of Cassation on the ground that his answers are inaccurately transmitted to Paris. One of the attaches of the Chinese legation in Paris, believing that he was being persecuted by the secretary of legation, Lien Young, killed the latter by shooting him with a revolver and then committing suicide. The Havana correspondent of the London Times says Gen. Maximo Gomez has agreed to refer to the Cuban assembly at Marisnno the American offer of $3.000,000 to pay off the Cuban army on condition of disbandment. A dispatch from Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, says Dreyfus, the Devil’s Island prisoner, is in good health, but declines to reply to the court of cessation questions ou the ground that his answers are inaccurately transmitted to Paris. Alexander McEtapfljd, the Dnwsnw <£ity (Alaska) gold mffter, pho is said to fce . worth more thanJts,oof>,ooo. waspmwfcd A# 'Margaret ,< liMtolm at Brixton, England. The bind# h*. tft* daunts* ot the superintendent of the Thames water police. General Otis cables that Agoneillo is responsible for the outbreak in Manila.

It is reported there, he «(5X tWt the Philippine repceseatatave tnAqpripWl from Washington to TpHliay him to drive oat the Americans before reen foreements arrived. Twelve mounted and armed Cahus »W----tered the store of Antonio Garcia at. Das Catninos, a small Town two wales tfipewi Santiago, and Intimidated tbe peotple in the store. They then loaded * J**rk train they had brought with then# with $1,200 worth of goods and without hindrance made for the hills. A gold mine owner of the aaawe off Monastyrsebin has received a leli«r •saying that a tribe of Turgnsos, jwhabittiwg tlie Timur peninsula, north of Ssihwia. recently informed the Russian poiive <-hief of that district that lietwee® K«uw» and Pit, in tin- province -of Y-oidsci-st, they found a cabin const met cd of ami cordage, apparently belonging so> * balloou. Close by weix- tbe bodies -of three men. the head of owe badly vr-oshed. Around them were a number of insitraments. the uses of which were watt wnterstood by the Turgwws. It is. I'Kdieved that the bodies are those of the as-rcfluantt, S. A. Andree, and his companions.