Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

New South Walt**’ wheat yield will be double that of lu»t year. A special dispatch from Vieuua reiterates the report that the Ituaaiam bad occupied Herat. 4 M. ffcoderolf, * fouff* Rbssilb** claims to hav* inveuted a flying machine having • maximum speed of 108 miles an hour. Thomas Ifenry Ismay, founder fad

chairman of the board of director* of the Whit# Star Line Steamship Company, died at Liverpool. He was born Jan. 7, 1837. Gen. Wingate, with an Egyptian force, attacked the force of Ahmed Fedil at Afrinadil. Fedil’s force, numbering 2,500, was routed and 400 dervishes were killed. Advices from Tien-Tsin say that the negotiations of the American syndicate regarding the Hankow-Cauton railway have been brought to a successful conclusion. The Novoe Vreniya says that Count Mouravieff, the minister of foreign affairs, has suggested a revision of the treaty of commerce between Russia and the United States, which was concluded in 1832. At the expense of the government of China, the bodies of 65 Chinese buried in the ’cemeteries of Chicago will be exhumed and shipped to China, to be buried in sacred soil. According to Chinese religion, all who arc buried in foreign lands are doomed to eternal torment.