Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Transvaal gold output for 1898 was $81,000,000. Thomas Mack, a young blacksmith of Indiauapolis, has gone to Russia, where he will be chief horseshoer in the Czar’s stables at Moscow. Owing to an inrush of water at the Ktschnar gold nline, near Troisk, Russia, a shaft in which ninety-five men were at work collapsed. Sixty-two of the miners were killed and nearly all remainder were seriously injured. w The British Government has decided to contribute an annual subsidy, to the full amount recommended in the report of the Pacific cable committee of 1886. for the construction of a cable from Britan

light ship was struck bv a passing vessel. courts. The claim will be set up that as Porto Rico ia now a portion at the United States it is unconstitutional to charge customs dues for goods sent from one portion of the country to another. Gen. HenCy, the American military governor of Porto Rico, has Informed the insular committee recently sent there from Washington that he does not believe the Porto Ricans should be encouraged to look forward to statehood in the American Union. He thinks they will do better wader a territorial term of government.