Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Oont Paul goes to Holland obviously to recuperate bis falling health. German Socialist congress adopted a resolution advocating free trade. Olga Nethersole was fined £2 in Scotland for allowing her two dogs to go unmuzzled. AguifiQldo has written to Buencamino declining to consider any peace proposals or compromise. Grand maneuvers of the French army concluded with a review of 97,000 men by President Loubet. Sir E. M. Satow, British minister to Japan, aud Sir Claude Macdonald, minister to China, are to exchange pdkts. Massacre of 5,000 Chinese by Ilussiana

on the Amur river in Manchuria b reported by a Russian correspondent. The Kurutu and Tabual Islands have been formally annexed to France by the Governor of Tahiti at the request of the natives. President Loubet of France gave’ a dinner to the mayors of French municipalities. Twenty thousand guests were in attendance. Fgcnch ministry has consented to arbitrate the qnarrel with the exposition concession ures, to save the mayor’s fete from failure. Captain D. D. Mitchell nnd eleven men were killed and twenty-six men wounded in a fight with Filipiuos on Laguna de Bay. An explosion occurred at the Frisch mine ut Dux, Bohemia. Thirty-five persons were killed and fifteen injured. Five persons are missing. Stores of wool and cotton valued at 4,000,000 frdnes were destroyed by fire at Roubaix, France. The enormous warehouse of the Mngnsins Generaux was burned. Military commanders of the powers find the holding of Pekin useless ns u means to bring the dowager to terms, and are- preparing to evacuate the city before winter. Marshal Arsenio Martinez de Campos is dead at Znranz, near San Sebastiun, Spain. For thirty years, ns soldier and statesman, Marshal Campos Ims been the mainstay nnd preserver of the Castilian government. About two-thirds of the American troops now at Pekin have been ordered to retire and return to the Philippines. A legation guard of one regiment, one battery, and a squadron of cavalry—about 1.850 men—will be left at Pekin under the direct control of Minister Conger.