Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Journal des Debats announces the Paris exposition will not be ready for Ihe opening in April. King Christian and Frcmier Hotring oppose the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Reports of troubleshot ween Servia and Bulgaria are said t<r%e without foundation, the two nations being at peace. The Shipping London, announces the completion of a deal where* by the Leyland Line absorbs the Atlantic Transport Company. The British expedition sent into Burma h to avenge the murder of Messrs. Kiddie and Sutherland, British commis-

sionera, baa killed sixty of the villager* and burned 2,000 booses. Fire broke out in the famous cannon factory at Le Creusot, France, whence the Boers obtained their powerful “long toms.” Two enormous buildings containing gun material and electrical stores, including a number of artillery models, were destroyed. The losses are estimated at between 800,000 and 1.000,000 francs. The government of Alsace-Lorraine has declined to grant the petition of the vine growers of the Reichsiand that they be permitted to import American grapevine* in order to renew their mined vineyards. Baron Zorn von Bulach, secretary of state for agriculture, declared on the floor of the landtag that the American vines brought -into the country are worse blights than phylloxera.