Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Rain has improved the crop outlook in western India, and the fears of a famine have been removed. European nations are considering; projects to boycott the Paris exposition liecause of the verdict in the Dreyfus case. At Rennes, France, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was declared guilty of treason by the court martial and was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. President Kruger of the,Transvaal Republic cablaa to a New York newspaper; I

“We are determined to defend to the uttermost that freedom and self-government for which our people have shed blood in every part of South Africa.” Agents for a company of Spanish capitalists announce that arrangements have been completed for the building of a modern railroad line in Luzon that will connect Manila with all the important towns along the west coast of the island as far north as Lacag. The great Siberian Railway is to be rebuilt even before it is competed, according to a report forwarded to the State Department by Mr. Hagerman, second secretary of the embassy at St. Petersburg. The reason is the enormous increase in the business. The steamer Antarctic, which left Helsingborg, Sweden, on May 25 last, with au expedition under Prof. A. G. Nathorst, was spoken off The Skayv, the northern extremity of Jutland, Denmark, on her return from her search along the northeast coast of Greenland for Prof. Andree. She reported that she had found no trace of the missing aeronaut.