Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Mayor of St. Petersburg and the Lord Mayor of Loudou are to dine with 20,(MM) mayors of France. Portugal has given permission to Kruger to depart for Europe, and Holland has offered to send a warship for him. In Paris jewelry to the value of $2,500 has been returned through the confessional to a French countess, whose name is concealed. Prince Henry of Hesse is dead at Munich, his death removing the only inale relative iu the line of succession to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. A search of the anarchist arrested in Spain revealed newspaper clippings showing that the rede are closely watching President Loubet of France. • Kruger has formally resigned the posi-

tion which he held as president of the South African republic, thus severing his official couuectiou 'with the Transvaal. I Army officers in the Philippines are discussing the advisability of Turing native troops to replace tbe volunteers which will be mustered out of service June 30, Captain Charles McQuestion of the Fourth United States Infantry, now in the Philippines, while insane shot down several of his men and was in turn killed in 'self-defense by a soldier. Caetano Longo, on returning from the United States to Pastona, Italy, killed his wife and two men ifi a fit of jealousy. Having committed the triple crime, he ran amuck, killing five others and wounded two fatally. Then he committed suicide. The Japanese have arrested the assassin of Baron von Ketteler, the late German minister to China. The assassin, who has been handed over to the Germans by the Japanese, has confessed his guilt. He was arrested for trying to sell to a Japanese officer a watch with initials which he admitted taking from the body of Baron von Ketteler. He afterward admitted the crime, saying that the imperial government ordered the commission of the act.