Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Faris police have arrested fire monarchists and seized documents being circulated in the interest of the Duke of Orleans. Six men were killed by a dynamite explosion at the Eiger tunnel works on the Jungfrau railway, Switzerland. It is supposed that the explosion was the result of an accident. According to the semi-official Hamburgischer Correspondence, the German foreign office, complying with a petition of Germans in Samoa, has requested the Washington Government to supercede Chief Justice Chambers. The officials of the British foreign office, in a statement, emphasize the fact that the Anglo-American commissioners displayed the utmost friendliness, aithongh they were unable to agree on the difficult problem of Alaskan boundary. The steamer Miowera brings news that a sensational discovery of opal is reported from Qpaiton, Queensland. The find is said to be ode of the biggest blocks of opal

ever discovered, its value being estimated between £7,000 and £IO,OOO ($35,000 to $50,000). Count Jean Bernard Rachberg-Rothcn-lowen, the distinguished Austrian statesman, formerly minister of foreign affairs, and the incumbent of other important administrative posts under Emperor Francis Joseph, died the other day in his nine-ty-third year. The officials of the German foreign office have notified the United States embassy that the Government will henceforth admit American oranges, lemons nnd raisins without examination, and also that ail American fresh and dried fruit will be allowed to pass in bond through Germany without being examined. The American residents in Chee Foo, China, have sent an appeal to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, requesting that a ship load of corn be sent for the relief of 2,000,000 Chinese in Shang Tung province. The unprecedented floods of the Yellow river have destroyed crops, and the immense population along the great river is on the verge of starvation!