The Penn's Grove record., 1899-10-27
Foreign.

President Steyn, Of the Orange Free
State, has Issued a proclamation annexing
Bechuanaland and Grlqualand West to the
Free State.
Russia is reported to be working to Sc.
cure a naval station oil the Pacific between
Yladivostock and Laio Tung.
The Anglo-Egyptian expedition has been
ordered to return to Omdurnan, the Khal.
ifa having fed from his position at Teb-el-
Biz.
There wa rioting at Wsetin, Moravia,
between the Germans and Czechs. The
~gendarmes fired on the rioters, killing two
and %wounding seventeen.
Forty-three Government and naval OF.
fclals have been arrested In Russia fol
misappropriating funds. Several OF those
accused ave committed suicide.
The Public Prosecutor at Paris has
abandoned the charges In the Royalist
conspiracy eases against NM. Monisourt,
Parseral and Girard, but upholds those
against NM. Buffet, Guerin, Deroulede
Count ebrau- Ponteves, and eleven others
q Michael Davitt, Nationalist member fol
South Mayo. announced In the House oil
Commons, London, that he Intended tt
resign as a protest against the war.
The Steele OF Paris states that NJ. Cam.
bon, the French Ambassador to the United
ohhtCo, VIZ nut 6O I stcuhay as was OK
pected, but will return to Washington.
The London County Council has adopted
the conduit system OF electric straet cars
on the projected large extensions. This lie
the first time an English corporation has
adopted this method, overhead wires being
in use throughout the United Kingdom.
The Indian mail train collided with a
freight train near S~ehoerboek, a suburb Of
Brussels, Belgium. three saloon carriages
being demolished, Eighteen passengers
were injured, but none fatally.
The New South Wales Assembly has de
cided to dispatch a contingent Of troops tc
the Transvaal.
A Socialist paper in Berlin says the Kai
ser's recent speech on the need of a strong
fleet is the fore-runner OF u naval bill.
Sir Alfred Miner, the Governor OF Cape
Colony, has issued a proclamation prohib-
iting the importation Of all dangerous ex
plosives.
Anti.semitic riots broke out at Halles
chau, MOravia. Jewish houses were stoned
and stores pillaged. The gendarmes
charged the rioters, killing three persons
mi injuring several others. The military
finally restored order,
1t was on tally announced at Ottawa
Ont, that the Imperial authorities have
granted permission for trained nurses ape
surgeons - DC sent from Canada for tht
Coielial troops. This announcement Il
halted with satisfaction.
Mrs. Stockwell. the widow OF Charles
Stockwell, who was Vice President OF TIT
fanny & Co., New York City. was robbed o
s75,0 900 In valuables and money at the Ho
tel Savoy, London.
The district elections 10 the City of Santt
Domingo resulted in favor of General Juar
Isidro Jimenes for President. Senior Horaeit
Vasquez for vice-President, and Senores
Rafael Abreu and r.. Castillo for Congress
Inthe Storthing, at Ch~ristiana, Norway
the Leftists have adopted an electoral pro
gramme, which includes compulsory arbi
tration and a system OF insurance against
i%ncaPacity to earn a livelihood.
A liberal revolution has started In In,
departments OF Santander and Toluna
Colombia. Martial law has been estab
lished all over the Republic.