Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Baron Russell of Killowcn, lord chief justice of England, is dead. The port of Havre is practically closed on account of the stokers' strike. The Madrid cabinet has approved the extradition convention between Spain and.the United States. The signal office of the army nt Washington has received notice that the allies have captured Yang-taun. For insulting the new Queen Of Servin. General Bcllm.irkowitch, who was oue of

the xegents during the minority of Klug Alexander, has l?ecn placed under arrest at Vienng. According to a special dispatch Barberton lias been proclaimed the new seat of the Transraul Government. General Roberts reports that Hoare’s garrison at Eland’s River probably has been captured by the Boers. The strike of Paris cabmen has resulted in a lockout and 3,500 drivers have been deprived of their vehicles. Boer plot w as discovered in Pretoria to kill all British officers and make Lord Roberts a prisoner. The ringleaders are in jail. ' General Alejandrino, n leading rebel commander, is negotiating for the surrender, of the Filipino forces central Luzon. United States Minister Thomas gave a state dinner at Stockholm Ju honor of the officers of the United States ships Lancaster and Essex. British War Correspondent A. G, Hales says tb.e imperial troops in South Africa are-being starved owing to resl tajie and wretched methods. Tlie luaritini'.' stokers’ strike at Havre, which threatened to assume large proportions, has been settled by a compromise, the men securing an increase of wages. A terrible mistake occurred at the ing of Yang-tsun. Russian artillery opened fire on tlie American troops. Before the mistake was discovered many American soldiers had been killed or wounded by the Russian shells. Many persons were injured in a panic at Rome during the passing of the funeral cortege of the late king. Thinking that an attempt was being made to assassinate Victor Emmanuel, the princes surrounded him with drawn swords. During the maneuvers of the French fleet off Cape St. Vincent a collision took place between the first-class battle-ship Brennus and tlie torpedo-boat destroyer Framee. The Framee sank immediately. Of the Framee’s crew of fifty-six men fourteen were saved. , Advices from Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, say that 200 men. women and children -have been massacred in tlie Armenian village of Spaghank, in the district of Sassun, by troops and Kurds,, under Ali Pasha, the commandant of Bitlis. He is also said to have ordered the village to be burned.