Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Admiral William Ward of the British navy is dead, aged 71. Ambassador C-lroate Iras asked Grept Britain to suppress tlie Filipino junta in Hongkong. Sir Arthur Sullivan, the famous composer, died very suddenly in Loudon of heart failure. i Several hundred inmates of the Manchester workhouse are suffering from arsenical poisoning. Two companies of the Twenty-fifth infantry captured thirty insurgent Filipinos, with arms and supplies. Paul Kruger, president of the Boer republic, was enthusiastically received by the people of France upon his arrival at Marseilles on Thursday. The betrothal of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte to Grand Duchess Helen, daughter of the Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia, is officially announced. It cannot fail to strengthen the Bonapartist cause in France.