Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

De Bradsky, the neronauf, nnd Morin, a companion, were killed by falling from a dirigible balloon near Paris. The Danish minister of marine, Rear Admiral Joehnke, fell on the steps of the Rigsdag and fractured his thigh. King Christian of Denmark has gazetted Anton Ueguer, tlie American violoncellist, a knight of the Dnnebrog order. Andrew Carnegie's gifts of $75,000 to Belfast and $35,000 to Limerick for the establishment of libraries have been accepted. The Rultnu of Ilaeolod, Mindanao, has rejected tlie friendly overtures of Gen. Sumner, commander of tlie American forces in Mindanao, in a defiant letter, in which he invites war. The troops of the Venezuelan government have been repulsed while reattainpting again to occupy Coro, capital of the Rtate of Balcon, and sustained ueuvy losses. A schooner with sixty men on board w T as sunk. Investigation into the affairs of the Rt. Wenceslaus loan bnnk at Prague, in ihe funds of which a shortage of $500,000 was discovered, shows the amount stolen to be $1,000,000 and that the peculations had been carried on for twenty years. The Italian Boards of Trade and Art and the press associations, led by Rignor Luzzatti, former minister of the treasury, have initiated a strong movement in favor of the official participation of the government in the St. Louis exposition. General Zontcheff, president of the Macedonian committee, has again escnjied from prison and has gone to Macedonia. The Macedonian committee asserts that the insurrection is growing daily. It claims that the rebels have destroyed several villages. Counterfeit American silver dollars are being made in China and circulated in Manila. The suspicion is held that some of tliis money Was shipped from Ran Francisco. The dollars are of silver and of standard weight. 'Wlby have been detected through the improper stamping of the word “Liberty” on the goddess. “An extraordinary rumor is current here,” says the Paris correspondent of the London Standard, “that private negotiations are proceeding between Russia and Turkey which if successful will result in an agreement opening the Dardanelles to Russian warships.” The passage is now closed to warships of all nations.