Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — MINISTER TO BELGIUM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MINISTER TO BELGIUM.

Lawrence Townsend Transferred from Lisbon to Brussels. Lawrence Townsend of Pennsylvania will succeed Bellamy Storer as United States minister to Belgium when that gentleman leaves Brussels for Madrid. Mr. Townsend is a polished diplomat and a

lawyer of much culture. He is now at the bead of the American mission at Lisbon, Portugal. He showed that he was made of diplomatic stuff when, as minister to Portugal, he had to navigate through the touchy times of the war with Spain. He can speak nearly all the languages of Europe.

LAWRENCE TOWNSEND.