Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Baroness Nathaniel Rothschild died suddenly of heart disease at Paris. An explosion on board the torpedo boat destroyer Bullfinch on the Solent during her trial killed seven and injured eleven of those on board. The Western Electric Cable Company's establishment at Woolwich, England, was burned. The loss is $1,250,000. An American plant recently fitted up at the works was destroyed. The Government of Honduras has made a full report, from its point of view, of the killing of young Pears last spring, for which indemnity has been claimed by the United States. During a thunderstorm forty persons who were leaning against a wire, failing at the Charlottenburg, Germany, cycle track were struck by lightning. Three were killed and twenty were severely injured. Naval Lieutenant Biseman, the late czarowitch's adjutant, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver at Abbas Tmnan in the Caucasus, after being bitterly upbraided by the Czar for allowing the Czarowitch to go cycling alone.

A report from Childress, on the line of the Colorado Southern Railroad, in the Texas pan-handle, states that a cloudburst occurred in that region with disastrous results. Much of the track of the Colorado Southern Railway has been swept away, and the bridge across Little Red river, near the western line of Ctiildres County, is gone; also the bridge over Pease riter, near Vernon. Both these rivers and their tributaries are roaring torrents. The property loss is very heavy. It is feared that some lives have lieen lost.