Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Bulgaria has secured a loan in Vienna of $50,000,000. Cedi Rhodes' telegraph line has reached Abercorn, at the southern extremity of Lake Tanganyika. The cable between Manila and Iloilo has been repaired and communication once more established. The Sultan of Turkey will send five envoys to the Csar's disarmament conference at The Hague. Germany will take.no steps to purchase the Carolines until ratifications of the peace treaty are exchanged between Spain and the United States. Lieut. Lemaire's exploration party in German East Africa recently covered the 600 miles between Lake Nyassa and Lake Tanganyika in twenty days. Considerable alarm has been occasioned in Constantinople among th* native Christians by the receipt of many telegrams from friends and relatives in Smyrna, signed “Are Safe.” Such telegrams in 1895 were often the forerunners of a massacre. The Sultan of Turkey has granted to Germany the right to build warehouses and docks at Haidar Pasha, a port directly opposite Constantinople. Haidar Pasha will be made the western terminus of the Anatolian Railway, now under construction by German capitalists. Newspaper reports at Turin to the effect the Italian territory in East Africa still be ceded to Great Britain create intense excitement, notwithstanding official denials. The Armenian committee at Geneva has issued a circular to the powers hinting at revolution unless they intervene to secure an amelioration at the position of Armenians in Turkey. The Indian budget just announced esS’Xww’S STS year 1899-1900 at $12,500,000. The Gov 'has voted not to reduce taxation.