Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Business is almost suspended in Budapest owing to prevalence of influenza. The Sultan of Morocco has objected to the French occupation of the Oasis of lusalnh. Many houses were destroyed and several persons killed by a landslide at Bondeno, Italy. President Loubet will pardon Baron Christiani, who assaulted him at the race track last June. Gen. Otis has suppressed' the Manila paper, La Patriß, and imprisoned its editor for sedition. Sacred documents and archives of in-

estimable value were imperiled by a blaze in the Vatican. Officers and crew of the United States cruiser Prairie were entertained by the municipality of Rouen. ' Ras Mangascia is leading another attempt to overthrow the authority of Menelek in northern Abyssinia. A Scottish expedition is to be sent to explore the antarctic regions under the leadership of William S. Bruce. The Norwegian three-masted schooner Triton has been wrecked at Dunkirk, France, and ten of her crew drowned.„ The Sultan’s reply to the collective note of the powers protesting against increases of duties is merely a categorical statement that the increase will be made. The Brazilian minister to the court of St. James, Chevalier de Souza Correa, was found dead in bed in London. He wns an intimate associate of the Prince of Wales and was quite well the previous day.