Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Six hundred lives have been lost by the flooding of a copper mine at Besshi, Japanese island of Shikoku. A dispatch from Madrid says the number of Spanish monks now held as prisoners in the Philippine Islands is estimated at 399. A dispatch from Constantinople says that the Turkish cruiser Ismir has been wrecked in Besika bay, between the coast of Asia Minor and the north end of the Isle of Tenedos. Several well-known war correspondents representing English newspapers at Rennes have received instructions to hold themselves in readiness to start for the Transvaal on twenty-four hours’ notice. President Figuereo of Santo Domingo has resigned. The ministers will continue at the head of their various departments until a provisional government has been formed, after which the elections for president and vice-president will take place. Owing to the spirit of opposition and evasion shown by the Chinese foreign office in the negotiations now progressing between China and Jtaly, the Italian squadron In Chinese waters will be immediately re-enforced by two torpedo boat destroyers.