Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Cholera is sweeping the India famine camps. The military auti-Republican party has Control of the Paris council. A Hanover paper announces the discovery of an English, French and Russian alliance against Germany. Another extensive Russian purchase of land in Corea has been disclosed at Port Chin Nan, on the west coast. Martial law has l>een proclaimed in the provinces of Barcelona and Valencia, Spain, on account of the anti-tax demonstrations. The British Government is trying to force the Jewish Colonisation Association to pay death duties on the $40,000,000 left it by Baron Hirsch. After four years* negotiations the United Presbyterian Church synod of Scotland has unanimously resolved in favor of a union with the Free Church. News has reached Berlin that the antiforeign society known as the Big Knife is spreading among the population of the Hhan-Tung and is favored by the Chines* officials. A peasant named Mencci, In a fit or insanity, murdered hi* entire family, consisting of nine persons, at Rome, Italy.

The murderer injured several men wh« attempted to interfere with him. , ' . A valuable painting of the Madonna, by Carlo Dolci, the painter of “Ecce Homo,” which hung in Cardinal Vaughn’s residence at Westminster, Eng’ land, was stolen on a recent night. There was a brilliant gathering at’ the formal opening of the American pavilion on the Paris exposition grounds. Nearly all the leading Americans now in Paris were present and took part in the exercises. Cable dispatches from Tokio announce thiit Yoshihito Harunomiya. the heir apparent to the Mikado of Japan, has been united in marriage with Princess Sada, a pretty little daughter of the great house of Fujiwara. The publication of the will of the late John Ruskin shows that his personal estate was only £IO,OOO, all that was left of his father’s bequest of £200,000. In a codicil Ruskin revoked the bequest of his art treasures to the Bodleian library of Oxford, and the treasure will remain at Bra nt wood. Advices received from Samoa announce that the American flag has been hoisted over the island -of Tutuila, amid great native rejoicing, and that the chiefs have made a formal cession of the island to* the United States. The inhabitants of Manna, it is also announced, request the formal hoisting of the American flag over that island, which will likewise be ceded. Siberian exile, so long a blot on Russia, is finally to be abolished, by order of the Czar. A bill for the abolition of deportation to Siberia was introduced into the council and passed unanimously. The worst side of deportation to Siberia—exile without trial—is to be abolished altogether, and the transportation of criminals in mass will cease, while the construction of central prisons for their temporary reception will be hurried forward.