Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Czar of Russia has issued a rescript exonerating Finance Minister De Witte from recent charges. Li Hung Chang has been appointed acting viceroy of Canton. It is believed this is preparatory to his degradation in compliance with the French demands. The death is announced at St. Petersburg of Chevalier Anton de Kontski, the famous pianist, aged 82 years. He was the author of the celebrated work, “The ‘Awaiting of the Lion.” At Amalfi, Italy, an enormous rock, upon which stood the Cappuceini Hotel, slid bodily into the sea. carrying with it the hotel, the old Capuchin monastery below, the Hotel Santa Caterina and several vilLs. Many people were buried in the debris. Forty school children were drowned at Frelinghem, Belgium, near the French frontier. The children of the districj had been given permission to play on the frozen River Lys. The ice broke suddenly and the children disappeared. A few were rescued, but the majority were drowned. S An additional indication of the secret understanding which has recently been arrived at lietween Chinn and Japan is seen in the honors lately conferred on Yano Fuinio, who has resigned his post as Japanese minister at Pekin in order, it is said, to take the post of foreign adviser to the imperial Chinese Government. Oscar 8. Straus, United States minister to Turkey, has left Constantinople for a visit to this country. The yellow Ware pottery manufacturers have advanced their selling price lists 5 per cent, to take effect immediately. The R. Greene Manufacturing Company of London, Ont., wholesale dealers in-clothing, has assigned. Direct liabilities SIIO,OOO, indirect liabilities SIOO,(MM), assets $75,000. Maj. Gen. Wood, Governor of Cuba, has- accepted the resignation of the members of the Insular Cabinet. The members will remain in charge of their offices, however, until their successors have been named.

At Montreal, Que., Ferdinand Lemieux, local manager of the defunct Ville Marie Bank, was found guilty of sending to the Government false statements as to the bank's condition, and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. One of the most peculiar accidents ever recorded in Ontario happened recently. Theodore Heath, a young Cathcart man, while eating his dinner swallowed his false teeth. Three physicians were called, and decided upon an operation. Heath was cut open and the teeth removed, but he died from the shock. A new departure in the policy of the Department of the Interior at Washington is emphasized by unequivocal refusals which have met ail frccent requests for loans of Indians for exhibition purposes and Secretary Hitchcock and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones have determined to stop the abuses of the privilege. The Ontario Government held a sale of 398 square miles of timber limits in the district of Algoma, Nipissiug and Rainy river districts, at Toronto the other day. It was attended by all the leading American lumbermen in Michigan, who bought freely, notwithstanding the fact that the terms of sale prohibited the export of sawings, the expectation being that the scarcity of lumber and increased demand in the United States would necessitate a larger demand of manufactured stuff from Canada. The prices of the limits showed a good advance.