Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Dr. Leopold Schenck, who announced the discovery of a means of influencing the sex of offspring, has been forced to retire from the Vienna University. The German minister at London has been instructed to demand ample reparation for the seizures of German ships at Delagoa Bay and the indignity offered to the German flag. The Great Western Line mail steamer -Ibex- atruck.. on . Black Rock, off, St. Sampson’s, Island of Guernsey, and sunk. All the passengers were saved, but one sailor was drowned. Dimitri Grigorowitch, the author and creator of stories of Russian peasant life and one of the uios' eminent representatives of modern Russian literature, died in St. Petersburg, aged 76. A landslip destroyed 500 yards of the Beftegarde tunnel, near Geneva, Swltxeriand. A train passing through the tun-

nel was caught iu the avalanche and many passengers are reported to have been wounded. News has reached Canton, China, that a battle occurred between natives near Wang Chauin and the French forces stationed there. It is said that the Chinese routed the French and pursued them for some distance. The French loss was thirty killed. The Chinese losses are not stated.

The Hamburg-American Line steamer Patria, which caught tire in the English channel Nov. 15. while on her way from New Y’ork to Hamburg, and was abandoned, going ashore ou the Kentish coast, was raised the other day. She subsequently foundered, however, and two persons were drowned. The Journal de St. Petersburg, the organ of the Russian foreign office, expresses the gratification of the Russian Government that all the powers have signed the acts of the peace .conference at The Hague within the stipulated time, and expresses the opinion also that ratifications will speedily follow.