Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The correspondent of the London Times has been expelled from Havana. British authorities at Kingston, Jamaica, are buying every ton of coal they can secure. A revolution has broken out in Porto Rico and rioting is reported all through the island. The • Whitwick colliery, in Leicestershire, England, is on fire. It is believed that forty-one lives have been lost. The peace negotiations between Nicaragua and Costa Rica have failed. War is probable. The two armies are facing each other near the frontier, scarcely half a mile apart. The Nicaraguan officers and troops, it is reported, are anxious that President Zelaya should lead them. Business is at a Complete standstill. The United States torpedo boat Somers, purchased for the American Government iu Germany, which has twice bad to make port while on her voyage to the United States, collided with the masonry at the entrance of the dock at Falmouth. England, in which she was being placed for repairs, defects in her machinery having made her leak in several places. As a result of the accident the stem of the Somers was smashed.