Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Bishop. Haffner, successor of the Socialist Bishop Ketteler of Mainz, died,. aged 71 years. The Russian chess player, Schiffers, who taught Tschigoriu, has become insane at St. Petersburg. The landing stage of the Waesland railroad ferryboat, on the left hank of the Scheldt. Belgium, broke in ttyo on the arrival of the first train. Many persons fell into the water and fifteen or twenty of them were, drowned. The whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, which aTrrived at San Francisco from Japanese the story of the by the Russian gunboarAleLT °t£

- —— schooner, which carried a crew, of titt» ty-one men, wax caught poaching on Booaian sealing preserves. The Berlin Tageblatt bean from Petersburg that the constriction of the projected Russian railway in Penis la assured. M. Schanski, the engineer, is organizing a body of engineers and sorvey<ors to carry out the preliminary work. French capitalists are furnishing the money for building the line. T. Katayama, architect in chief of the imperial household of Japan, la at Tacoma, Wash., en route home. He has been in the East for the last two months letting contracts for material and equipment to be used in the erection of n grand palace for the Crown Prince of Japan. He says the materials alone for the palace will cost $500,000.