Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Count Galli, formerly prominent in the consular service of Italy, died at Dinard. Geu. Ramon Ulloa, commander of the Colombian gunboat Boca, died at Buena Ventura. It is said that an Italian steamship compauy will establish a service to the Chilian coast. . William Bonny, who accompanied Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, in 1887 in the expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha, la dead at London. Fifty thousand Londoners at the peace

demonstration- in Trafalgar square to a man yelled for war, and it took a hundred mounted police and a battalion of foot to prevent u foretaste of actual hostilities. Rear Admiral Montejo, who commanded the Spanish naval forces in the battle of Manila bay, and who has been on trial before the Supreme Court at Madrid, has been condemned to retirement without the right of promotion. Dreyfus has published the following declaration in a Paris paper: “The Government of the republic has given me my But liberty is nothing to me without honor. From to-day I shall continue to seek reparation for the frightful judicial error of which I remain the victim.”. The decision by the Spanish cabinet that the interest on the Cuban bonds must be paid by the Cuban Government is a virtual' announcement that Spain will not pay the interest, and that the bonds are valueless. The United States refuses to recognize any responsibility in the matter. Consul General James Gs Stowe, at Cape Town, reports that the Government of the South African Republic is taking action toward an increase of duties on such articles as blankets, boots aud shoes, leather, harness, hats and caps, paraffine oil, etc. The increase is from 714 per cent ad valorem to 10 per cent.