Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Wang Eui Soo recently declared himself the rightful king of Corea. He was sentenced to death and was decapitated. While sixteen men were descending into the Couchard mine at Haute Croix, France, the cable broke and they wen all killed. . ▲ great railway accident occurred al

Santiago, Chili. An entire passenger train fell into the river Mapoch*. runs through the city, find many lives wen- lost. *■ , The Sultan of Morocco has notified the powers that he is destroying the native boats on the Riff coast and is establishing a gunboat service in order to protect fo’reign shipping from piracy. Mnlai-Abd-El-Aziz, the Sultan of Morocco, had a narrow escape during a recent thunderstorm, when an electric bolt killed several persons, ineluding two court ushers, who were standing within a few feet of his majesty. The newest Peruvian revolution at Huanuco, under the leadership of Senor Durand, hits assumed a more serious phase and is giving the Government even more concern than did the Iquitos rebellion, which subsided three weeks ago.

Information from Para announces that the inhabitants of Acre, the territory claimed by Brazil and Bolivia, have proclaimed their independence and constituted a. new South American commonwealth. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the suspension of M. Vonderweiss, a millionaire of that city, has produced a depressing effect on the bourse. His capital was estimated,to have been between 50,000,000 and 60,000,000 rubles, but after his debts are paid he will scarcely have 6,000,000 rubles left.