Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, the painter, is dead iu Paris. He was born in Paris in 1845. The village of Ramon, adjacent to the Oldenburg estate, in the government of Poltava, Russia, has been partially destroyed by fire. Lord Pauncefote of Preston, British ambassador to the United States and dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington, died at the British embassy there Saturday morning. The city of Quezaltenango, In the eastern portion of Guatemala, with a population of 25,000, has been entirely obliterated by an earthquake, according to private information. The cities of Amatitlan, Solola, Nahuala, Santa Lucia nnd San Juan also have been badly damaged. Count Matsukata, the former prime minister of Japan, with other high Japanese officials now on the Atlantic coast, came to the United States for the purpose of negotiating a loan of $100,000,000 with which to build ships and railways and carry on mining enterprises in Japan. The terrible drouth from which, as a climax to seven dry years, Australia is now suffering, has cost, by an official estimate, in stock since 1899 £15,000,000 ($75,000,000). Unemployed men are drifting into the cities by the thousands and there the State governments are providing them with relief.