Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Two severe earthquakes wore felt at Fortunn, sixteen miles from Murcia, capital of the province of that name, in Spain. Edhem Pasha, the Turkish military governor of Crete, hits been recalled and Cheika has been appointed to succeed him. A late dispatch from Shanghai says it is semiottieiqlly announced there that the Emperor of China committed suicide on Sept. 21. • - Turkish advices from Van say fighting has occurred at Alashgorb between the Turks and a number of Armenians from Russia. About fifty Armenians were killed. The British Government has privately advised the colonial ministry of the appointment of Lieut. Col. Sir Henry McCallum of the Royal Engineers to the governorship of Newfoundland. Sir John V. Moore, an alderman of the city of Jmndon and senior partner of Moore Brothers, leather merchants, has been elected lord mayor of London, England, to succeed Horatio David Davies, the incumbent of that office. A dispatch received* at Madrid from the Visayas Islands says the Tegales have landed in the Autiqna province and have been completely defeated by the Spanish column after a sharp fight in which nine-ty-four of the insurgeuts were killed. The house and furniture at Paris of Emile Zola arc abont to be sold to satisfy a judgment of 30,000 franca obtained against him by three handwriting experts who recently won a libel auit growing out of the Dreyfus case against the author. The rebels have attacked the Government offices ou the island of Formosa and set tire to a building in which tliey were located. however, ou the approach of the troops, and the utter attackcd the rebels in that district, burning a number of villages. A man hna been arrested at Orttva, ..a- ’*■. . . •

I charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate the King of Roumania. The police received timely warning and the attempt was frustrated. A phial of poison, a dagger and several other weapons were found in the man’s possession. 'j'he British steamer Iliilcruig, Captain Gibson, from Fernnndina, via Norfolk, for Hamburg, has been in collision with the Dutch steamer De Reuyter, bound from Cronstndt for Dordreicht. The collision occurred near Helvoet. The Hilleraig proceeded and the extent of damage to her is as yet unknown, but De Reuyter was badly damaged. . A terrific storm swept over Japan recently. The wind did great damage to shipping. Rivers soon became torrents, flooding many sections. A summary of the loss of fife and property follows: Deaths, 250; houses swept, 164; houses overthrown, 1,195; partially wrecked, 11,4(50; houses inundated, 15,597; river banks broken, 78. The latest advices frojp Japan bring news of the death of Rev. Thaddeus S. K. Freeman, chaplain of the United States steamship Baltimore, at Nagasaki. From ail accounts Freeman committed suicide while in a condition of mental depression consequent upon his failing health. He jumped overboard from the Zealandia and was drowned before any assistance could be rendered him.