Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

There has been a big fire in the heart of Cape Town and several large business houses have been destroyed. The loss is very great. New all-British cable, connecting Great Britain with Canada, Australia and New jZealand, expected to be in operation early in November. Edmond Bruwaert, French consul general at New York, is to be minister to Cuba. His probable successor is Henri Merou, at present French consul general at Chicago. Gen. Cronje, the Boer commander, who with bis army was captured by Lord Roberts at Paardeberg, Orange Free State, in February’, 1900, has taken the etfth of allegiance to King Edward at St. Helena. The American yacht Uncle Sam, owned by Francis R. Riggs of New York, won the first of the international special class races at Kiel, the Stars and Stripes crossing the line eight minutes ahead of all other flags. The steamer Bertha reached Seattle from Valdez and westward points. Mount Redoubt, which has been in an incipient stage of eruption since early spring, was not visible, owing to fog. Mount Wraiigel is in eruption. Capt. Andrews and a crew of twelve seamen of the British bark Ossuna, who were rescued while clinging to their capsized vessel in midocean, reached Philadelphia on the British steamer Beaconlight. One member of the crew was drowned. Emperor William’s American-built schooner yacht Meteor, with the Emperor himself on board and steering most of the time, finished seven minutes and twentytwo seconds ahead of the Cicely in the large schooner race held at Kiel in connection with the regatta. A gunpowder magazine at the encampment at Carabanohel, five miles from Madrid, exploded. Two men were killed and fourteen were injured. The shock was felt for miles. Scores of houses were damaged, the doors of the royal palace were thrown open by the force of the explosion and many windows were smashed. The treaty providing for the prolongation of the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (the dreibundi was sigped in Berlin by the imperial chancellor. Count von Buelow; the Austrian ambassador, L. von Szogyeny-Ma-rich, and the Italian ambassador, Count Lanza di Busca. The alliance was renewed in its original form. The Kosinos liner Aly dos. from Hamburg. carried into Valparaiso the crew of the wrecked Kosmos liner Sakkaraii. The Sakkarah ran into an island about 800 miles southwest of Valparaiso, and jammed herself hard and fast on the rocks. All hands were saved and the ship's papers and $2,500,000 in gold were taken ashore, but the ship and cargo were a total loss.