Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Thirty-nine deaths from the plague have caused u panic at Honolulu. The Boers are reported to be dissatisfied at the length of the campaign. Italy’s commercial interests may prevent a renewal of the triple alliance. Afghanistan’s ameer Has ordered the destruction of the road between Herat and Kutschk. The Austrian Government has forbidden the City Council of Eger to erect a monument to Bismarck. The French correctional tribunal has ordered the dissolution of the community of Assumptionist Fathers. The Prince Regent of Bavaria has conferred the Order of St. Michael, firstclass, on Dr. Nansen, the explorer. According to a special dispatch from Shanghai it is reported there that Emperor Kwang Su has committed suicide. French elections resulted in favor of the Republicans. Only three Nationalists were elected in ninety-nine senatorial districts. The Dowager Duchess of SchleswigHolstein, mother of Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany, who had been suffering from pleurisy, is dead. The North China Daily News publishes an edict by Emperor Kwangsu, appointing as emperor in his place Putsing, the 9-year-old son of Prince Tuano. While the United States gunboat Wheeling, now in Hong Kong harbor, was saluting in honor of the German emperor’s birthday, a gun burst, killing Gunners Campbell and Nelson and seriously wounding Lieut. Beatty and Gunners Conroy and Bite.