Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1898 — SUCCESSOR OF THE MAHDI. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SUCCESSOR OF THE MAHDI.

Soudanese Potentate Against Whom the Egyptian Army Is Marching. The Khalifa Abdullah, the Soudanese potentate, against whom the Egyptian nr my is now marching, and against whom England will send more troops, is the successor of the Muhdi, whose name was upon everybody’s lips a few years ago. The present rules assumed all the power and authority attaching to the position of his predecessor, but lie never proclaimed himself Muhdi or prophet. Abdullah’s rule has been as tyrannical and rapacious as

that- of the Mahdi, but the Soudanese have been by no means as patient with him as they were with his predecessor. Many of the tribes, weary of Abdullah’s cruel rule, have revolted and become independent. but the Khalifa has sufficient friends left to make him a powerful enemy, and to the invading expedition all it can do to reconquer the territory in question.

THE KHALIFA ABDULLAH.