Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Emperor William attended thtf opening of the Dortmund-Ems canal in Germany. Emperor William has decided to assent to the resolutions of the peace conference. Two men have ambnshed Maitre Labor!, counsel for Dreyfus, at Rennes, and one shot was fired, hitting Labori in the back. According to Hong Kong advices an agreement has been reached between Great Britain and the Chinese Government that the United States shall have an executive settlement at Hankow. It is proposed after the close of the Paris exhibition next year to open an American exhibition either in Moscow or St. Petersburg, consisting chiefly of American exhibits from the French capital. Including Paul Deroulede, sixteen members of the Anti-Semitic and Patriotic leagues and young royalists have been arrested in Paris under a general charge of forming a conspiracy to overthrow the Government. It is expected General Lord Kitchener of Khartum, conqueror of the Soudan, will pay a visit to New York and other cities of this country as soon as the important military mission upon which he set out recently is accomplished and he is able to take a vacation. It has been decided by the Government of Russia that hereafter any university or high school student creating or instigating disorders shall be forcibly drafted into the army and compelled to render from one to three years’ service. It is not said whether or not this applies to foreign students. Captain Vashiero, a naval attache of the Japanese legation at St. Petersburg, thinks Russia will eventually abandon its transsiberian railroad. At a banquet in Tokio recently he said the greater part of the Siberian railway was imperfect in construction and it would hardly be possible to utilize it for war purposes.