Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Russia is reported to have agreed to Loan Corea $12,000,000. News was received that Osman Digna, principal general of the late Khalifa Abdullah. has been captured. Richard D. Blackmore, the novelist, died at Teddington, England. He was born at Longworth. Berkshire, in 1825. His Highness Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander, Duke of Teck, died at White Lodge, Richmond Park, London, in his sixty-third year. The American Line steamer Paris was successfully floated out of the dock at Milfordhaven, England, where she had been undergoing temporary repairs. The death of John Ruskin at BrantEngland, from influenza and old age occurred the other day. He had tyeeu extremely feeble for many months. The Methodist church is about to begin active missionary work in the Philippines under the supervision of Bishop J. H. Thoburn. ■ The first missionaries to be~sent to Manila are Miss J. E. Wismer, Miss Mary A. Cody and Dr. Norton, of Ohio, and Miss Mostes, of Michigan. They have sailed from San Francisco, accompanied by Miss E. Anderson, who is going to do missionary work in Malasia.