Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The chamber of deputies of Belgium, sitting as committee of the whole, adopted the proportional-representation proposal by a vote of 65 to 51. By an explosion of fire damp in the Llest colliery, in Glamorganshire, Wales, eighteen persons were killed and many others placed in great danger. Reports from southwest Russia say that the recent drought in that portion of the country has caused the utter loss of the winter and spring wheat crops. There was a riot in Paris Sunday that

developed into almost a revolution. St. Joseph’s Church was sacked by a crowd of anarchists. Three hundred and eighty persons were injured. Sixty police agents I were wounded. i The man who attempted to murder Maitre Labori, leading counsel for Cap- ' tain Dreyfus, has been arrested at Doi, France: His name is Glorot, he is a na- , tive of the Department of Cotes du Nord . and he has confessed. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, commanding general of the army, is going to the I Philippines. He will start the latter part lof October. He will act in his capacity | of general of the army and will have a supervision over field operations. Walter Wellman and the survivors of the Polar expedition led by him have arrived at Tromsoe, Norway, having successfully completed their explorations in Franz Josef Land. Mr. Wellman discovered important new lands and many islands. The unsatisfactory rise of the Nile is giving the Government and the people of Egypt grave anxiety. The flood resembles that of 1867, when a large area, being inundated, had to be left fallow, and the Government was obliged to remit £l,060,000 in taxes. A riot occurred in Havana, growing out of an attempt to lynch Juan Villegas. a former lieutenant of police, who had ill treated his wife in the most atrocious manner. A detachment of artillery met the mob and the latter promptly dispersed. United States Minister Russell at Caracas reports to the State Department that the insurgent faction in the state of Los Andes, Venezuela, under Gen. Citriano Castro, was completely defeated by the Government troops in a bloody battle which lasted eighteen hours. Prince Henry of Prussia, who commands the German squadron in the Pacific, will visit San Francisco, according to the Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Mail, on board his flagship after he leaves China. It is possible, according to the same authority, that he will also go to Washington to see President McKinley, who has sent him an invitation.