Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The tribunal of commerce in Paris declared the “Cuis'se Geuerale des Families” to be insolvent. The liabilities are said to be 40,000,000 francs. Sir Liau Chen Tung, secretary of the Chinese embassy to the coronation of King Edward, has been appointed Chinese minister to the United States. Sir Michael Hicks-Bcach, chancellor of the exchequer, has resigned from British cabinet, and other changes are likely. Balfour has assumed office of premier. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy was given royal welcome at St. Petersburg, being met at the station by the Czar, members of the imperial high officials. x. Thirty persons were drowned by the sinking of a small passenger steamer on the Luge river, near Probroa-Schenskaia, Russia. The disaster was caused by overcrowding. Confirming the announcement already made, the Exchange Telegraph Company says that' Sir Thomas Lipton announced at Southampton his determination to again compete for the America’s cup. According to a bulletin issued by the Russian ministry of agriculture, the condition of winter grains in European Russia was not great changed during the month. Generally speaking, good harvests are expected. The Campanile (detached bell tower) of St. Mark's Church, Venice, Italy, ninety-eight meters high, collapsed and fell into the piazza with a great crash. It is now a heap of ruins. It is feared there was some loss of life. While making its way through the narrow and tortuous harbor of Christiana, Norway, the United States battleship Illinois, the flagship of Rear Admiral Arent S. Crowninshield, ran ashore on a rock bottom and several holes were punched in its bottom. Later the Illinois was released and made the rest of its wuy into the harbor. The settlement of the annexed territories in South Africa is not being accomplished without considerable friction. This is especially noticeable in the bitter hatred and persecution on the part of the Boers who stayed in the field to the end of the war against the Boers who served as British grouts. It is said that some of these national scoifts have been shot or beaten.