Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Sudanese mutiny has lieen suppressed entirely. Paris hotels have raised their rates from $3 to $9 a duy. Andrew Coats, famous threadmaker, is dead in London, aged 85. Henri Rochefort was mobbed and pelted with rotten apples in Bordeaux. Berlin authorities deny that Germany has any designs against Macao harbor, M. Varicle of Paris will attempt to go from Vancouver to Dawson by balloon. Brazil has declared Argentine and Portuguese ports free of the bubonic plague. English wall-paper makers have completed the organization of their $30,000,000 trust. Paul Hervien and Emile Faquet have been elected members of the French Academy. Au imperial edict. Just issued, commands Li Hung Chang to desecrate and

destroy tbe tombs of tbe ancestors of the Chinese reformer Kang Ju Wei, and offers 100,000 taels for ,the capture Kang Yu W’ei, dead or alive. A French expedition has decisively defeated Rabah, the “Africa.n Napoleon” of the Sudan. Tbe Caechs have adopted a plan by which they hope to force the dismissal of the reichsratb. Out of a total of fifty-one cases of suspected bubonic plague reported in Manila forty-two proved genuine and thirty-two deaths resulted, half of them being Chinamen. The health department census shows the population of Manila is about 190,000, including 31,000 Chinese.