Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is asserted that tlie Emperor of China has become a .Christian. Insurgents of Iloilo are swearing allegiance to the United States at the rate of 1,000 a day. England is said to be negotiating for Salvora Island, off the northwest coast of Spain, for a coaling station. London Italian burned a pin-studded wax elfigy of President McKinley on the doorsteps of the United States embassy to avenge the death of a brother in New Orleans. Three thousand tons of steel plates and angles for shipbuilding from the works of the Carnegie company reached the Clyde by the steamer Dunstau, from Philadelphia. Lord Kitchener reports that after aevere fightiug at Nooitgcdaeht Gen. Clements’ forces were compelled to retire by Commandant Delarey, with a force of 2.500 men. Four British officers were killed. . The falling overboard of a man from a passenger boat on the West river, near Ho Ivau, China, led to a rush of some 400 passengers to the side of the vessel, which caused her to sink, more than 200 persons being drowned. The brother of Prof. Andree, the missing Arctic explorer who attempted to reach the north pole in a balloon, resides at Gotherberg, from which place it is announced that, hoping for Andree’s return from the polar regions, he has deferred opening the latter’s testament for twelve months.