Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The plague outbreak at Glasgow has been checked. Serious loss of live stock has resulted from the floods in Argentina. Russia is trying to negotiate loans in New York and Paris for $150,000,000. French army officers have been severely punished for having ostracized Captain Coblentz, a Jew. Bulgaria has demanded that persecution and expulsion of Bulgarians from Roumania shall cease. Captain Shields and fifty-one ’men of the Twenty-ninth infantry, captured by Filipinos on the island of Marinduque, have beeu rescued. The Emperor and Empress of Germany took part in the laying of the foundation stone of the imperial museum at Saalburg, ou the site of ! the old Roman fortress. As the resulCof monetary disturbances abroad Austria wishes to float a large Joan in the United States. It is reported tiat this loan will be in the neighborhood of $29,900,000. pispatches from Costa Rica tell of the almost total destruction by fire of Port Liipon, the principal port of the republic. The business section of the city was entirely wiped out. More than $2,000,090 worth of property was burned up. Arriving steamers bring news of terrible ravages by a typhoon in Formosa and Southern China. Thousands of persons were killed. Numerous towns were destroyed. Nineteen hundred houses Mere washed away or inundated at 'l'aipeh, Formosa, and many lives lost.