Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Sir George While 1* to be made governor of Gibraltar. French troops have occupied Igli. near the Morocco frontier. A new cable la to be laid between Ireland and the Faro Islands. Kir Henry Stanley will not seek re-

election to parliament, hi* health being po<fr. Three persons were killed and many injured by a railway collision near Chaville, France. . t. A plot has been discovered to blow up one of the electric lighting plants of the Puris exposition. According to London advices negotiations for the sale of the Danish West Indies have been broken off. Bribery in tho granting of concessions at the Paris exposition has been revealed and Director General Picard is said to be implicated. With impressive ceremonies the crown prince of Germany took the oath and received the congratulations of many foreign rulers. There are persistent rumors that Aguinaldo has been killed by the Igorattes. There is no proof that he has been alive since Maj. March pursued him into the Benquet mountains. . Gen. Pantelon Garcia, the highest insurgent officer except Aguinaldo, was captured by Lieut. E. V. Smith of Gen. Funston’s staff in the town of Jaen, three miles northeast of San Isidro, province of New Ecija. Consul General Holloway at St. Petersburg reports to the State Department that Russian trade last year showed a decrease of $68,134,500 as compared with the preceding year. This is attributed to the reduction of export trade in consequence of the bad harvests. Telegrams received from Gen. Young report that Aguinaldo has rejoined the rebel general, Tino, in the north, and that they have reassembled a considerable force in the mountains. Gen. Young desires to strike them before the rains and asks for re-enforcements from Manila.