Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

I’opc h«s extended the jubilee year for six months, Home being excepted. . Twelve men were drowned by the sinking of n Japanese government dredge. W. D. Coleman, president of Liberia,

has resigned,, G. W, Gibson succeeding him. Minister of War Andree accuses French nationalists of betraying awy secrets. a Pvoker has been summoned before the B.i'isa tax commission,' but has started for tiie continent. Martial law has been proclaimed in the Dutch district of Beaufort West nud Carnarvon, Cape Colony. Mail advices from Barbadoos report that incendiarism is rampant there. Thirteen cane fields and house premises were burned during one week. The steamer Rio Jun Marti brings news that the Japanese training ship Tsukishima Mailt has been lost with all hands, numbering 121, near Namadzu, Japan. Gen. Botha's forces have dealt the British another serious blow in the eastern Transvaal. An entire garrison has just been completely routed at Helvetia, with the loss of 50 killed and wounded and 250 taken prisoners. Olio of the most serious tires whieh have occurred in the east end of Loudon during the last ten years broke out- at the East India docks. Five immense sheds filled with goods, including a thousand bales of liemp and quantities of jute, were consumed. A panic occurred in the Grand Theater at Islington, London, England, in the midst of a matinee. In some manner the tinsel drapery of the scenery ignited and burst into flames and smoke. Instantly therc was a rush for the doors, and many persons were trampled and seriously hurt. Dreyfus lias written to the premier, AI. Waideck-Rousseau, classing as another falsehood the recent statement of AI. Henri Rochefort in the Intramjigeant that he (Dreyfus) had sent to Emperor William of Germany, in 1894, a letter stolen from the German embassy at Faris, aud asking for another official inquiry.