Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Andrew Carnegie has subscribed £I,OOO to the Gladstone memorial fund. Consideration of the German meat inspection bill is to be postponed until next autumn. Word has been received of the death of Mdlle. Rhea, the well-known actress, in Montmorenci, France. An expedition under Prof. Nathorst has left Stockholm for the northeast coast of Greenland, in search of Prof. Andree. Forty-eight locomotives have been ordered of the Hehwartskopf works, Germany, for the Russian Railway in Siberia. jThe latest sensation in the Dreyfus case is an alleged declaration by Gen. Boisdeffre that he saw a letter written by Emperor William to Dreyfus. Fons envoys have been-sent by Agolnaido to the American authorities to sue for peace. An American protectorate, with Filipino autonomy, is desired. The Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes is to be added to the Urited States navy. If

flames anflorwecin j-, mL tofiP uiuCTfl were lujaTru, uaf to. wboib m since died. The town of Ferooow, in toe Government of Warsaw, Poland, has been 'destroyed by fine. Twelve lives wore lint and 3,900 people, driven from toeir immn, are now camping in the fields. The agitation of the Coban dock laborers at Cienfnegos, who have been demand ing back pay, culminated In bloodshed. A negro was killed by a Caban officer. The dock laborers have now been paid. Statistics compiled by the Treasury Dr j partment show that China’s imports from the United States for the fiscal year at 1899 will exceed $13,600,000, to mfintfc should be added the balk of the $5,60f1j606 sent to Hong Kong. M*j. Marchand, the French explorer, who has just crossed Africa from toe Atlantic coast, has arrived at Jibootel. Urn insignia of commander of toe Legion off Honor was handed to him on hoard toe French second-class cruiser D’Assam without ceremony. Kang Yn Wey, the reformer who del from Chiba, is reported to be behind a scheme to form companies in ovety city of consequence in the United States, Canada and Australia which will attempt to «o»trol Chinese capital in order to further sffl oriental industries. About $08,066:666 worth of stock will be issued. The German bark Ariadne caught toe while lying at the Standard Oil Company's pier No. 2at Bayonne, SL X The flames spread to the pier, which was destroyed, together with about 006 barrels of oil. The Ariadne was burned to toe water line. The loss on the Ariadne is estimated at $25,000;' on the pier $16,666 and on the oil $2,500.