Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Denmark now wants to secure a port in China. The German Reichstag has passed a compromise army bill on lines acceptable to the Emperor. The United States cruiser Philadelphia has arrived at Apia, Samoa, and Admiral Kautz has held conferences with the consuls. Admiral Dewey has reported the arrival of the battleship Oregon at Manila, with her condition unimpaired by her long sea voyage. Maj. Gen. Ludlow, military governor of the department of Havana, desires to be relieved of his present duties and sent to the Philippines. Mrs. Harold Frederic, widow of the well-known American correspondent and novelist, who died in London in October last, is dead of cancer. The Spanish cabinet council has decided that the treaty of peace with the United States should be ratified immediately after the dissolution of the Cortes. Gen. Gomes, in a speech at Havana, intimated that he might, in deference to the overwhelming demand of the Cuban people, accept the presidency of the island republic. The Spanish Government has concluded a loan of 30,000,000 pesetas with the banking house of Urquijo. The money will be devoted to paying the arrears due the Spanish troops which have served in Cuba. The strongly fortified village of Caitai, northwest of Pasig, was captured after a desperate fight by the Twentieth regular infantry. The Americans lost seventeen wounded, while the rebels’ loss was heavy. The steamer China, from the- Orient via Honolulu, brings news of the death of Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii. The cause of death was attributed to inflamnfatory rheumatism. The princess was born; Oct. 16, 1875, The yacht Norua, in which A. J, Wea-. ver and a party of- friends -Bailed -from. New York Nov. 2, 1896, to “explore.and write up the strange places of the earth,” has arrived at Colombo, Ceylon, after a stormy passage through the Red Sea. ▲ serious conflict between the police and people of Havana resulted in much shoot-

Ing and dabbing. From thirty to fifty people were wounded, some seriously. Among the injured is Police Captain E«tampes, formerly a colonel iu the Cuban army. News has been received from Smyrna that' 6,000 Cretan Mussulman refugees, who were in lack of work and food, invaded nnd pillaged the Greek and Turkish quarters of the city, a conflict resulting, in which many persons were killed or wounded. Boron von Morepheim, former Russian ambassador to France, in an interview at Pau denounces as a “clumsy invention’’ the story that he is the real cnlprit who sold both Russian and French military secrets to Germany, and that Dreyfus is innocent. A dispatch from Stockholm says that King Oscar, at the request of Dr. Nordenskjold, has provided F. R. Martin with 1,500 kroner in order that he may make a search in Siberia for Prof. Andree and his companions. It is added that Martin has started on his search. The legislative council of India has adopted the countervailing sugar bill. The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedelston, expressed satisfaction at the unanimous feeling of the council on the subject of the bill. He said the fullest inquiries had shown the necessity of urgency in the case, and he condemned the bounty system as being “a vicious expedient for selfish interests.”