Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Robert Buchanan, British novelist nnd poet, is paralyzed and probably dying. “Johanna," Barnum At Bailey'* famous gorilla, died of pneumonia at Nureuiburg, Germany. One man was killed nnd more than thirty persons wore injured in a rear-end collision near the Place de la Concorde station on the Metropolitan Underground Railway in Paris. Sato, hitherto first secretary of the Japanese legation In Berlin, has been appointed Japanese minister te Mexico. Ha

was formerly attached to the Japanese legation in Washington. The will of the late Marquis of Bute has been admitted to probate. Among other charitable bequests the sum of £IOO,OOO ($500,000) is distributed among various Homan Catholic causes. Spanish cabinet has resigned as a protest against Weylcr’s appointment as captain general of Madrid, and the Queen Regent has asked Azcarrnga, Weylcr’s supporter, to form a new ministry. Aeowdiug to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Express, fifty persons were killed nnd many others terribly scalded by a boiler explosion on board the steamer Eugenia, running between Tomsk and Barnaul. Seybohl & Dickstod of Sheffield, England, the largest manufacturers of crucible steel ip Great Britain, are preparing for the removal of their plant to the United States. An option has been taken cm a site near Wheeling, W, Va. The Sebastopol correspondent of the Loudon Daily Telegraph sends details of a recent plot against the life of Emperor Nicholas. It appears that before the Czar and Czai'ina began their journey to the Crimea a student at Moscow University was arrested for digging in a suspicious manner in the vicinity of a railway tunnel near Sebastopol. The police after the arrest f,oupd « large quantity of explosives deposited where they would have inevitably wrecked the tunnel when the imperial train was passing.