Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

All tbe South Germany sugar refineries hare united iu a syndicate. Miss Laura Ilaygood, Methodist. missionary, Is dead at Shanghai, China; Nationalists of France have elected Paul Kruger department councilor of Pas de Calais. , Queen Victoria made the lord mayors of Dublin and Belfast baronets of tbe same rank with the Lord Mayor of Lon-* don. .The Nlcnyigua Government has dnttlly canceled the concession to the Maritime Canal Compnu/ to construct a ship canal across Nicaragua. James XI. Barrie, tbe novelist, has accepted the invitation of a committee to conteet tbe vacancy in the represent alien

in the house of commons of Edinburgh an.d St. Andrews universities. -A serious explosion occurred at the Begbie works at Pretoria, used by the Government as an arsenal. Teu workmen were killed and thirty-two were injured.The cause of the explosion is unknown. An accident within the exposition grounds in Baris caused the death of nine persons and injured forty. A temporary bridge, although closed to traffic, collapsed, burying scores under the broken timbers and heaps of debris.