Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

According to Honolulu advices exQueen Dowager Kapiolaai is seriously ill. It is estimated that Argentina will have 1 JiOO.OOO tons of maize available for axpert. Lady Frances Anne Emily. widow of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, is dead at London Because of representations from the State Department at Washington. Italy, has auspradrd all action against Colom El Correa Espanola, the Cartist organ at Madrid, has bee* suppressed on the ground that it«the property of a British sufijoct. Emma Nevada, the American prima donna, baa been compelled to cancel a six

th * t nffiyrrnriit in Spain tta"insults of the populace. The German Government has been informed by Great Britain that the latter has no designs of annexation or protectorate on the Tonga Islands. At the request of the Government of the Republic of Colombia, Italy has derided to grant a further delay of three months in carrying out the conditions of her ultimatum. The Chinese Government, according to a dispatch from Shanghai, has assented to the proposal to open three new ports in the provinces of Kiang Su, Kiang Si and Ngan Hwei, or An-Hui, Count Castellane has been awarded S3OO damages at Paris in his suit against the newspaper which published a false account of the Castellane-Deroulede duel on account of an actress. In his suit Castellane asked for $20,000. Gen. Guy V. Henry, commanding in Porto Rico, said to a member of the Porto Riean commission that he does not “believe in thrusting Americans into all the offices: I believe in colonizing. 1 have been here nearly a year and the commission only a few weeks.”