Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is stated that the Kaiser has uo intention of visiting the Paris exposition. The London war office announces that Gen. Cronje hsis surrendered his whole force unconditionally. Reports from Honolulu say tlie bubonic plague is spreading to the other islands in the Hawaiian group. It is decided that the Shah of Persia will visit England as the guest of the Queen in July or August. Charles Piazzi Smyth, professor of astronomy in Edinburgh University and author of numerous scientific and astronomical works, is dead at the age of $1 years. A number of members of the British parliament have formed what they call an “Atlantic Union” to promote closer relations between the influential classes of Great Britain and the United States. A mob of Mussulmans wounded the son of the British' vice consul, Abala, at Sidon, Syria, and surrounded the consul*

ate. Troops were dispatched and the consul general went to the scene of the disturbance. In Brussels the increasing scarcity of coal is hampering industrial production. Stocks are exhausted and the myjes cannot fill orders. Many hotel, restaurant and bakers’ ovens have been shut for want of fuel. Mail advices tell how thirty-one of thir-ty-seven girls met death in a fire at Kojima Shinjo’s weaving factory at Ko meijimura, Japan. Six of them escaped through a hole in the robs. The others were cremated in their prison house. As the result of a fire that broke out at St. Ouen, a suburb of Paris, in a collection of alcohol and oil stores, a series of explosions occurred, spreading the flames until n block of six immense'warehouses was ablaze. One hundred and fifty people, including some firemen, were more or less injured.