Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

President Kruger has seven sons and fifty grandsons in the Transvaal army. Florence Marryat (Mrs. Frances Lean), the well-known authoress, died in London. There has been a bloody battle between the Boers and British at Ladysmith. Gen. White reports 100 British killed. Franzeska von Kap’ffessenther, the Berlin novelist, committed suicide. Financial troubles are supposed to have been the cause. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Natal, and the governor general has called out the rifle associations for the defense of Pietermaritzburg. The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin says that Great Britain has offered Germany the Gilbert Islands and the British section of the Solomon Islands if Germany will renounce her claims In Samoa. The Berliner Tageblatt declares that the German Government intends to double the strength of the navy. The reason given is the great increase of the navy lu America, which is evidently destined to become a great sea power. Reliable dispatches announce that the production of cocoa in the regions of La-

mar and Huenta, Department of Ayacuebo, Peru, will’ be very small, owing to the damage done to the plants by insect#. Price# for cocoa are now double those prevailing last year. The German ship Erik Rickmers, Captain Wurthmann, Bankkok for Bremen, struck Scilly Recks in a thick fog and foundered. All on beard were saved. She was a steel vessel of 1,952 tons, hailing from Bremerbaven. The French bark Paramo, Captain Jeannot, from Trinidad for London, went ashore at Scilly and filled with water. Her crew has been landed. She is an iron vessel of 325 tons.