Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Queen Regent of Spain has signed the bill for the cession to Germany of the Caroline Islands. The Boer Government has placed orders with the Krupps for twenty-five quick-firing guns and several of heavier caliber. / Vonolel, the famous Arab charger of Lord Roberts of Kandahar, and Perdita It., the well-known mare of the Prince of Wales, are dead. The Atlantic transport line steamer Montana, from Baltimore, reached Falmouth, England, with its propeller shaft broken. It had been towed for six days by the steamer Elderslie. Frank C. Lewis of Chicago Is on his way to Peking. China, for the purpose of negotiating with the Chinese Government with a view to tearing down a portion of the Chinese wall and using the stone to construct a roadway to Nankin. A dispatch from Saigon, describing the anti-foreign disturbances that recently occurred in Mengtsu, province of YunYan, says that the Wong-tse custom house, which was in charge of American officials, was sacked and destroyed. Anti-budget riots have been in progress in Saragossa, Spain. The troops fired on the mob in the Plaza de la Constueion, killing one person and seriously wounding two others. Many persons were injured. Seventeen persons received dangerous wounds. The Carnegie Steel Company has contracted with representatives of the Russian Government to furnish that country with 180,000 tons of steel rails for its immense railroad enterprises in Siberia and China. This is the largest order ever placed with one firm in the world, and represents an outlay of between $4,500,000 and $5,000,000.