Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Congressman Lovering of Massachusektts was robbed of $13,000 by pickpockets at Ostend, Belgium. In London, D. H. McGowan & Co., West India merchants, who also have a a establishment at Dcmerara, have been declared bankrupt. Their liabilities are £75,000. • A Il Corriere de la Sere of Milan declares that Italy has abandoned all idea of territorial acquisition in China and is only negotiating in connection with commercial matters. Announcement is made at London of the engagement of Lady Randolph Churchill to George Frederick Cornwal-lis-West. This disposes of the report that she was to marry W. W. Astor. George Averoff, the Greek, whose gift of a million francs for the restoration of the Stadium at Athens led to the revival of the Olympic games a few years ago, died at Alexandria, Egypt, in his seventieth year. The supreme court-martial at Madrid, before which Gens. Toral and Pareja have been on trial charged with surrendering Santiago de Cuba to the United States forces without having exhausted all means of defense, has acquitted both officers on the ground that they acted upon the orders of their superiors, and only surrendered when it was impossible to do otherwise.