Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

H. Rider Haggard, the novelist, has gone to the Atlin gold fields. Aguinaldo is reported to have refused $5,000 « year said to have been offered by the Schurman commission, to be paid while the Tagalos remained peaceful. Hostile foreign criticism of the Dreyfus verdict has angered the French people, and the Paris press takes up tha threats to boycott the exposition and plalilty tells the world its absence will be weleome. Advices from Kalisch, in Russian Poland, say that thirty-two persons were crushed to death in a panic la a syua- -

gogue there, caused by the upsetting of B lamp. | The victims were all women and children. Many others were injured. .-Great Britain and Portugal, It Is reported, are about to sign a convention by which the latter teases to the former certain territory and stations in Portuguese East Africa. Germany, it is said, has also secured similar advantages from Portugal. Emperor Nicholas has signed a ukase decreeing that when the middle Europe canal aud the Siberian railway are completed in 1901 all ' important Russian ports on the Pacific, Baltic and the Black sea shall be closed "forever to any butt Russian ships. Dr. Edward Bedloe of Philadelphia, United States consul at Canton, has been cleared of the charges preferred against him by the Chinese Government and, it is said, will be either restored to his post in Canton or clothed with au office in the consular service equally as important. Walter Wellman underwent a surgical operation at London for straightening his right leg, which was seriously injured during bis recent arctic trip. Another operation is necessary, but the attending surgeons say they expect to save the leg, and that Mr. Wellman will be able to return to America in a few weeks.