Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Danish minister at Paris denies that King Christian is to abdicate. Russian newspapers have been ordered to cease criticising the French army. Ten persons were killed and many were injured ns the result of an explosion in a hat factory at Denton, near Manchester, England. The police of Nice, France, have arrested Victor Nakadchldes, a Russian, on the charge of plotting to take the life of the Czar during the latter’s approaching visit. The Loudon Daily Telegraph publishes the following from its Copenhagen correspondent: “The King of Sweden is better and will resume the''reins qf government.” t An official report current In diplomatic circles in Pektn says that the Chinese

plenipotentiaries have signed the join* note, thus concluding the preliminary stage of the negotiations, .. After a night of terrible suspense al! of the passengers and crew of the French steamer Russie, from Oran. Algeria, which stranded near Faraman, Bouches du Rhone, during a violent storm, have been safely landed. Gen. Kitchener sends new* of a serious simultaneous attack by the Boers on the British positions between points sixty miles apart, along the lines of the Pretoria and Lourenzo Marquez railway. The losses on both sides were heavy. According to reports the Boers were beaten off after prolonged fighting. The annual popular fete of Toshi-No-Ichi, in the Kanda district of Tokyo, Japan, was the scene of a terrible accident recently. Great crowds attended the festival, and when the affair was at its height a heavy rain began falling. A rush was made for shelter, and a panic ensued in which twenty persons wer* crushed to death aud 312 injured.