Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

British campaign in Ashanti lias ended. Typhoon caused great loss Of life and property at Tonrauoe, Indo-China, King Victor had a narrow escape from death while viewing the flood of the Tiber at Rome. Moetisted's oleomargarine factory at Aarhus, Denmark, lias been destroyed by tire. Loss 1.000,000 kronen. One thousand more bolomen have surrendered to Captain Green of the Thirtythird infantry at Vignn, Island of Luzon. Official information of a positive char-

acter ha* confirmed the report* that Uroguay is about to sever friendly relation* with, Brazil. The Manchester Guardian says It understands Queen [ Victoria has decided to confer a dukedom on Lord Roberts and that Parliament will be asked to vote him £IOO,OOO. A special dispateh from Naples says the steamer St. Marie, trading between Naples and Marseilles, has been wrecked, and that forty-five of her passengers and a part of her crew have been lost. The United States auxiliary cruiser Yosemite parted her cables off the harbor of San Luis d’Apra, Island of Guam, drifted sixty miles, struck a reef and was wrecked. Five of the crew were drowned. Details of the explosion of a powder magazine recently iu Nanking have been received. Fifty thousand cans of powder were exploded by a flash of lightning and thirty men were killed and fifty injured. ' The population of Russia was estimated at about 75,000,000 in 1861, the yefir of the-emancipation of the serfs. l*t is now calculated to be over 136,000,000, according to a statement just published by tiie ministry of finance. Oscar Wilde, the English author andplaywright, once received with honor in the highest society circles of Great Britain aud the continent and noted the world over for Ills brilliant, if erotic, works, died iu Faris in poverty and obscurity and under an assumed name. Despite the strict censorship the news has leaked out and has been officially confirmed that one ot the most alarming English reverses of the war has occurred by the surrender of the De Wetsdorp garrison, with the capture of 400 British troops and of two guns which were not even disabled. Announcement of the nature of Emperor William’s decree regarding the reform of the higher schools has aroused the widest interest in German educational circle*. The principal feature recommended Is the making of lessons in the English language compulsory in certain elassta, dethroning French.