Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Man Rose I.eclereq, a well-known actress. as dead at London. The French Senate has adjourned nntil May St and the Chamber of Deputies adjaaeard until May 2. The passenger steamer Stella sank in a •ar m the BfigWah channel. One hundred and twenty fires were lost. Chant de Yillagonxalo, former Spanish aaakaasadar to Russia, has been appointed Spanish ambassador to Great Britain. Mat Get. MacArthur has entered Ma-

s lolos, the seat of the so-called insurgent government, the natives burning the city and simultaneously evacuating it. Hong Kong authorities are pressing for au extension of the territory ceded to Great Britain by the of Canton and Nanking ou the ground that more land is needed for British Government buildings. A committee of the Greek Chamber of Deputies having declared that the election of Zaimis, the president of the council of ministers and minister of foreign affairs, was invalid, owing to bribery and intimidation, the cabinet resigned. Extension of woman suffrage and laws to promote the welfare of the women in Cuba and the Philippines will be discussed at the thirty-first annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at Grand Rapids April 27 to May 4. A wealthy gentleman named Tourret was shot dead on the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, by a man who mistook his victim for President Loubet, to whom M. Tourret bore a striking resemblance. The murderer, whose name is Ozouf, and who is 38 years old. is thought to be insane. Agoncillo, the representative of Aguinaldo at Paris, says the Filipinos hope to draw the American troops into the center of the archipelago, as far away from the fleet as possible, and trust to the coming rainy season and terrible fevers to work more injury than rebel bullets ever could. The name board of the new French bark Mareehal Lannes, ot 1.711 tons, Captain Le Petit, which sailed from Swansea for San Francisco, together with large quantities of wreckage, including hatch and a skylight, has been washed ashore in Broad Sound and near the entrance to Bristol Channel, on the Welsh coast.