Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

In Peking it is officially denied that the Italians have seized San Mun bay. It is announced that Emperor William will go to Cowes July 29 for the yachting weak. The German navy is to be reorganized, with the Emperor himself in supreme command. The Hamburg-American line will, it is announced, make Plymouth its English port this year. The American troops under Gen. Wheaton have captured the city of Pasig, east of Manila. Gen. Castellanos, the last governor general of Cuba, has been made captain general of Madrid. Three tugs for use in Manila Bay among the Philippines have been purchased by the United States Government in Hongkong. They will be used to transport troops from point to point. The peace conference, otherwise the congress of representatives of the powers, called by the Czar to discuss the possibility of taking steps toward a general disarmament, will meet at The Hague on May 18. Minister Sampson of Quito has reported to the State Department at Washington that in the battle which ended the revolution in Ecuador, 600 were killed and several hundred mortally wounded and also 400 prisoners taken. After numerous conferences between Secretary Hay, the British ambassador and the German ambassador a satisfactory understanding has been reached between the three powers interested in Samoa as to the conditions there. A movement is on foot in Santiago de Cuba to persuade the United States Government to purchase San Juan Hill to be used as a public park. General Leonard Wood, military governor, and other prominent Americans favor the project. a' Gen. Maximo Gomez has accepted his dismissal by the assembly from the command of the Cuban army in a dignified, open letter. The gray chief declares his intention of withdrawing from politics and retiring to his Dominican home. The Paris Eclair confirms the report that the government inquiry regarding the explosion of the haval powder maga-

•ine in La Goubran has shown cut * was not of accidental origin, anfl snudh credence is now given to the rumor lYust it was an anarchist outrage. Advices by the steamship Victoria trom the Orient say that Spanish avarice and misrule have again stirred up a reirtdlimi. The insurgent Moros of Palawan Inland, one of the insurgent group north «f Borneo, murdered the Spanish Governor of Palawan, residing at Port Royalist, and killed his assistant. Minister Bellamy Storer reports Jrmn Belgium that in order to prevent the early destruction of the forest of iudig rubber trees in the Congo Free State a royal decree has been promulgated -providing that for every ton of india rubber yielded each year there shall be planted during the same period not leas' than 150 trees or vines producing india rubber. Maj. Edward Wilson of the Third immune regiment at Santiago de Cuba, wftio was recently tried by court martial on charges of forgery, falsifying records und conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, has been convicted and sentenced to dismissal from the service, forfeiture off pay and allowances and confinement for one year at hard labor in the penitentimy.