Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — FROM FOREIGN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN

The Roumanian Senate agreed ro a resolution for the naturalization of the Jews. The French Senate voted that Franco should participate in the St. Louis exposition of 1904. Returns of the referendum vote, taken in the province of Ontario, show a victory for the Prohibitionists. The federal council of the Swiss confederation elected M. Deutchcr president and M. Ferrer vice-president. A new Conservative ministry, headed by Senor Silvela, lias taken the place of the Liberal ministry of Senor Sagasta. Vitas Admiral Cervera, who commanded the Spanish fleet at Santiago, hns been appointed chief of staff of the Spanish navy. , Thirteen anarchists were arrested near Spezia, Italy, while in the act of taking an oath witli poignards to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel. The members of the Humbert family, arrested at Madrid for their vast swindling operations nt I’nris, were brought back to the latter capital and placed in prison pending their trial. The French Chamber of Deputies ratified nn additional monetary convention between France, Italy. Belgium nnd Switzerland, authorizing each country to issue additional silver coins to the value of $2,500,000. A new sugar bill wns adopted by the French Chaiuber of Deputies which reduces the tax on refined sugar to 25 frnnes per 220 pounds, ns compensation for the abolition of the sugar bounties under the Brussels convention. To England’s statement that if the Russian government did not adhere to the Brussels convention a retaliatory duty would lie imposed on Russian sugar, Russia replied thnt such action- would be a dangerous precedent for relations between friendly nations. ’ Russia offered to submit this'nnd nil other similar question* to Tho Hague arbitration court.