Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Col. Schneider, the former Ausiriu military attache at Paris, whose name has lirt a prominently connected with the treason of former Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French army, is dead. The Perurian Government. by nniejic movement of troops, is trying to surround Durand, the head of tfie revolution. In the meantime bodies of the revolutionists are surrendering under Government guaranties. Anti-Semitie riots broke out at lialleoehau, Moravia. Jewish houses were stoned. stores were pillaged, a house was burned and the gendarme charged the rioters, killed three persons and injured several others. The military finally restored order. The London Times complains of the lax observance of neutrality on the part of some of the States of the Failed States in permitting the sympathetic recruiting and enlisting of men openly and ostentatiously for service against England in Sonth Africa. Ike firm of Mitsal * Co. of Japoi is considering n plan to establish a new transpacific steamship line. The firm lo mid to hove contracted for 100.000 hales of cotton, to he delivered before next March, and may provide steamers of its

own to carry part of this American pun-. The, Venezuela crisis is virtually over. Gen. Andrade, the president, has accepted the conditions proposed by the insurgent commander. Gen. Cipriano Castro, and will go abroad, the presidency devolving upon the vice-president. Geni Castro will enter Caracas peacefully, thus avoiding bloodshed and a dictatorship!. At a meeting cf the supreme council of India C. M. Riraz said the famine-affect-ed areas comprised 100.000 miles of British territory and 250,000 miles of the territory of native states, each section containing upward of 15,000,000 of people. The situation in the central provinces, and particularly in Berar, Guzerat, North Deccan, southeast and central Punjab. Baroda. Indore and Rajputana, was distinctly grave. Mr. Rivas thought the extreme Emit of high prices, however. had been reached and that the food supplies from Burmah and Bengal would prove sufficient.