Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

llorr Krupp, the (Jennan gun maker, is building a large mill for the manufacture of American car wheels and axles. The commercial treaty -between the United States and Italy has been approved by the Italian chamber of deputies. A watchman heard two men plotting to burn the grand palace of the ChampsEly sees iu Paris, and gave information which led to the frustration of the plot. The King of Corea has let a eoutract fur $1,000,000 to a San Francisco man for moving the cemetery'fifteen miles because astrologers told him the dead queen's spirit was unable to rest. M\ Lnsies, a French deputy, was wounded in the arm in a duel with M. Ovruult ltichnrd. a newspaper man, near Paris. The ntluir was an outgrowth of recent disturbances iu the chandler. At the conclusion of the fireworks display at the' Place de la Concorde, Pans,

In honor of the national holiday, a panic occurred. Women fainted by score*, and many children were trodden under foot. Bushmen from Capo Oxford, according to a letter received from Sydney, were killed and eaten by cannibals oh the coast of New Britain. The German Govern*ment is taking steps to punish the cannibals. Ferdinand W. Peck, United States commissioner general to the Paris exposition, has decided to make a general reduction in the salaries of the employes of the commlKßidn, and notices to this effect,, have been sent to nearly all on the salary list. -