Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

An armed clash between Nicaragua and Costa Rica seems inevitable at this time. A Spanish bank iuTorto Rico has suspended payment, and affairs there border on a panic. A dreadful state of affairs prevails in Porto Rico. In the interior of the island people are perishing of starvation, and smallpox is epidemic and fatal. The suspension of the firm of Sherwood, Thompson & Co., cotton brokers, was announced in Liverpool. Sherwood, Thompson & Co. operated throughout the Southern States under the firm name of John Sherwood & Co. The firm had few outstanding obligations in the United States.