Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Snow and hail have done great damage to grain and fruit crops of France. A buoy bearing a message from Andree, who is trying to reach the north pol<* by balloon, has been picked up on the Norway const. It bears date of July 7 and states that all is going well with the party. * A meeting of the strikers at Cardiff, Wales, confirmed the action of their committee in agreeing to n resumption of work, the company having acceded to the demands of the strikers. About 59,090 colliers went to work. Anna Gould Castellano's appeal to her brother George for financial aid is said to have been so touching that Edwin used his influence with the result that George put up enough money to stop the sale of thy Casti-lliinc’s castle. That Charles Stewart Pnrnell is alive and, that he is now fighting Great Britain under (lie pseudonym of Christian De Wet Is the astonishing belief current in Ireland. t For uiauy years those who place faith in this theory have dc/.ied the great Irish leadpr is dead. A ruling against picketing during strikes was made by Justice Farwell of the High Court of Justice'in Ixmdon. who enjoined General Secretary Bsll of

the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and Organizing Secretary Holmes from watching and besetting the Great Western Railroad stations. As a result of the tension between the Roumanian and Bulgarian governments, due to jhe demand of the.former for the suppression of the Macedonian revolu-. tionary committee, a frontier conflict took place between Roumanian and Bulgarian peasants'iit Verciorovat Two Bulgarians were killed and many of both parties were woqnded.