Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Guzman Blanco, ex-president of Venezuela, is dead in Paris. N. R. Harrington, member of the American fish commission, died at Atabara, Egypt, of typhoid fever while en route for the Blue Nile. The death is announced at Paris of Albert Menier, from typhoid fever. He was a brother and business associate of Henry L. Menier, the chocolate king. A dispatch from Nijnii-Novgorod reports that a cargo and a passenger steamer collided on the River Volga, and that the passenger steamer sank, drowning 155 persons. The Hawaiian Islands have been violently shaken by an earthquake, and Mauna Loa, on Hawaii, started in eruption. Damage by the earthquake amounted probably to $50,000. A dispatch from Manila says that the rebels atempted to recapture Galamba, but were easily repulsed. One American wa» kilted and six others wounded. The Filipino loss was heavy. An expedition comprised of troops from San Pedro Macati, Pasig and Morong, under Brig. Gen. R. H. Hall, captured Calamba, an important trading town on the south -shore of Laguna de Bay. Percival Spencer, the famous aeronaut, with a companion named Pollock, recently made the trip to Dieppe, France, from the Crystal Palace at London. The balloon reached an altitude of 12,000 feet.