Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Colorado beetle has been found in a potato patch at Tilbury, England, Consul General Ho Yow may succeed Minister Wu Ting Fang, if latter Is transferred to Ixmdon. British ship Cromartyshire, which s.ta'x the Botirgoyne, caught fire at sea and was abandoned. Captain drowned. Dr. Krruse, former Mayor of Johannes-

burg. South Africa, has been arrested in London, charged with being a Boer spy. The new Danish ministry has decided to accept the United States’ offer of 16,(MM),000 kroner for the Danish West Indies. The will of the late Empress Frederick was opened the other day in the presence of her relatives and the legal advisers. She loaves 1,000,000 murks (£2SO,(XX)) to each of her six children, including Emperor William. A plot to assassinate Emperor Francis Joseph is believed to have been thwarted by the arrest at Debreczin, in Hungary, of an anarchist. The prisoner gave the name of Johann Nagy, and refused all further information about himself. He is an Austrian. Official statistics show that the wheat crop in France will be short again this year. The consumption, amounting to 830,000,000 bushels, usually is amply supplied from the home product. Last year's crop was short 30,000,000. This year the forecast is for a still smaller yield.