Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Felix Faure, president of the republic of France, died at Paris of apoplexy after an illness of three hours. A high authority at Madrid estimates that the next Spanish bndget will show a deficit of 325,000,000 pesetas. A serious conflict lias taken place between the Russians and Chinese at Tnlienwan, 300 of the latter being killed. The fighting originated over a question of taxes. The London Standard’s Berlin correspondent says that no request from America for the recall of the German officials in Samoa has been received in Berlin, and that none is expected. It has been decided at a Spanish cabinet council to liberate the Filipinos wh p had been deported to the Caroline and Ladrone Islands, in order to influence the. Filipinos to release the Spaniards they hold prisoners. ' El Comerdo of Havana publishes a 0

long article calling upon Cabans aai Spaniards to unite against the American*, who, it says, are “grasping all.the possibilities of the island, to the exclusion of the natives.” During the recent festival of Bairam, at Constantinople, Oscar Straqs, the American minister, insisted upon the custom house being opened to clear a cargo of flour from the United States. His request was complied with, but the incident caused great annoyance in Turkish circles. The Persian gulf mail steamer, which has just arrived at Bombay, brings news that a British ultimatum has been presented to the Sultan at Oman, owing to his having leased to France a coaling station on the coast of Oman, which is a semi-independent state in southeast Arabia. Oman is considered to be under British protection, as the Sultan has been receiving a subsidy from Great Britain. It is officially announced at Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, that the Mexican Government has decided to offer a big subsidy for a railroad across the Sierra Madrc range from Chuichitpa, in the' State of Chihuahua, to Huisopa, on the Sonoro line. This line will save from four to five weeks in getting troops across the mountains and incidentally prove a great blessing to American prospectors who hare located large deposits of precious ftniuerals.