Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Sixteen luiuers have been killed by an explosion in a coal pit at Besseges, France. The galleries of the mine collapsed, burying the bodies of the victims. The British steamer Cavier, Captain Quinton, - from Antwerp for Brasil, was sunk in collision with an nnkuown steamer. The second mate and two seamen of the Cuvier were saved. The Supreme Court of Chili has revoked the order for the extradition of Frederick T. Moore, former assistant toiler of the National Bank of Commerce of Boston, and he has been set free. President Kruger of the Transvaal republic bus appealed to Lord Salisbury, the Knglisfa premier, for a cessation of hostilities, offering at length, by cable, the terms which he ie willing to accept. The Reichstag, by a vote of I<J» to W, passed on Its second reading the commit-

tee’s proposals prohibiting the Importation of foreign meats and American meats are thus barred out of Henna ay. The Theater Francois In Paris was destroyed by fire. The lire broke out about noon, but was not discovered immediately, with the result that tlic theater was burning furiously before the. &e brigade got to work. Many art treasures trcrc destroyed. The President has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of death imposed by eoiirt martial in the ease of l’ri vate George Mflrpby, Company C, Twen tj -fourth infantry, convicted of the murder of another soldier of the same company in the Philippines. '■ Oriental advices say that permission to do general business in Japan has been refused sixty foreigu iusurancc companies, most of thorn American. Japanese officials say this results from the fact that the applications have failed to comply with the Japanese insurance laws. The Bank of the Republic at Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, has agreed to pay to the Government $50,000,000 cash in release of all obligations to the Government, amounting to $180,000,000, payable at different times and extending forward for a period of eighteen years. By this move the Government is released from all responsibility and obtains an immediate relief of the above amount.