Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Dr, Max Lange, the famous German chess master, theoretician and problemist* ie dead at Leipsic. He Was «7 yean old. Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia has asked France and Russia to lend him money to pay the cost of a Enropean trip. Gen. Gat acre’s force was forced to a • f "; ' ,V ; ;V /"■ ’ . *> V s % "

retrent from before Storm burg 1$ the Boers. The British troops were led Into a trap by false Information furnished by Boer sympathisers. Thp English troopship Tyne, carrying a new crew for the special torpedo vessel Polyphemus and other men for the Mwltterrancan squadron, went ashore on Bombridge ledge. Isle of Wight. The French chamber of deputies defeated a motion for the separation of church and state after a heated debate, during which there were several hand-to-hand fights and a number of challenges for duels. During a perforaiaufc? at a theater at Murcia, capital of the province of that name, in Spain, a bomb was exploded, fire broke out and the theater was destroyed. The audience, however, got out without serious loss. The London Times prints a letter from an American citizen who left Johannesburg because he was liable to be impressed, and who had learned that the United States consul was nnable to protect him. He complains bitterly that the American flag was not respected in Pretoria, that his passport was not recognised, and that his position was practically unbearable.