Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The steamer City of Monticello, belong ing to the Yarmouth Steamship Company, foundered in the Hay of I-'undy with appalling loss of life. Of the crew and passengers sixty-three persons are reported to have perished. The steam collier C’ity of Vienna, from Swansea for Rotterdam, sunk in the English channel after collision with un unknown vessel.- The sole survivor of the collier, n German fireman, spent twenty-seven hours on the keel of the ca paired vessel. An order in council empowering the governor to expel any person from Gibraltar he judgi* undesirable has been promulgated. British and other residents not employed in her mnjesty’s service are required to register at the police office ent must take out permits. The Japanese steamer Yumaguchi

collided with the French transport Caracano in the inland sea of Japan, Jbe transport tryiug to cross her bow*. The French vessel foundered. All aboard the vessel were rescued, except three midshipmen, who were drowned. The preliminary official report of the Russian crops received in London materially conflicts with the rumors of the alleged failure of the Russian cereals whieh have been circulating for some weeks. According to the report referred to the wheat crop is 45,150,000 quarters; rye, 97,250,000 quarters; oats, 82,000,000 quarters, and barley, 25,750,000 quarters. This is the best wheat crop since 1890. Gen. Linevitcb, the coinmtfnder of tlie Russian troops at Tien-tsin, has officially notified the (foreign consuls through the Russian consul that the land on the riverside opposite the British and German settlements has been annexed to Russia by right. of conquest. Unless all foreign owners of property immediately deposit documents proving their ownership no claims will be entertained. Much railroad property, ns well as the east arsenal, is included in the territory annexed by Russia. The consuls will protest agaiast the annexation.