Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Costa Rica is massing troops at Limon. An invasion from Nicaragua is feared. The cruiser Marblehead has arrived at Pernambuco, Brazil, en route to the Pacific. An insane customs official at Odessa, Russia, murdered his five sleeping children and then attacked his wife, fatally wounding her. . -JBj Word comes from London that the joint high commission to settle disputes between the United States and Canada will resume its sittings Aug. 2. The United States transport MacPherson fouled with the mast of the sunken collier Merrimac in Santiago harbor. No serious damage was done. At a meeting of the commandants on the western border of the Transvaal instructions were issued to the burghers to prepare to take the field at a moment’s notice from Pretoria. J , British soldiers and warships from Hong Kong have taken formal possession of Kow-Loon, opposite that city. The present trouble is the result of a sudden,

-ran*wol aF a nutivo AnfWM&lt’iAn tn ' control of the ceded territory. Citizens of Matanza. called upon Maj. Gen. J. H. Wilson, governor of that province, to ask for the revocation of the decree prohibiting cock fighting. Gen. Wilson said: “The civil governor has prohibited mains, and they must not exist.” Advices from St. Petcrsburgtell of the report of an engineering expedition which has just returned from Port Arthur with accounts of the discovery of gold fields in Russian territory in Kamchatka which equal in richness the mines of the Klondike. The Paris Petit Bleu says that ten members of the republican guard and foot gendarmes left St Naxaire, France, on board the steamer Lafayette recently to form an escort to bring Dreyfus to-France and that his return may be expected by the end of June. William T. Stead was personally received by the Czar in St. Petersburg and thanked for his efforts on behalf of the peace conference. Later Mr. Stead addressed an assemblage at the British and American Church, and criticised the workings of the Russian censorship. A fearful explosion occurred at Kurt’s chemical works, St. Helen’s, England, killing four persons and seriously injuring twenty. Fire broke out in the chlorate house and eighty tons of chlorate exploded. Subsequently the boiler burst and tbe whole works were razed. The total loss was about >100,009. vßazani, the inventor of the story of a plot to assassinate Emperor William during his visit to Egypt, which trip, however, was abandoned, has been sentenced at Ancona, Italy, to seven and one-half years’ solitary confinement and to three years’ subsequent police supervision for having imposed npon the police. The Chinese Government, in acknowledging the receipt of a communication regarding the Anglo-Russian agreement as to spheres of interest in China, expressly declares the acknowledgment in nowise implies acquiescence. Immediately after communicating the agreement the Russian minister, M. de Giers, demanded the right to build a railway connecting the Manchurian system with Peking.