Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A great battle has been fought in the Yemen division of Arabia. The Turkish troops stormed and captured the insurgent position at Shanel. About 4,000 insurgents and 2,000 Turks were killed or wounded. William Lapeer, a soldier of the South Dakota volunteers, was the victim of a queer revenge on the part of a rich Filipino with whom he had quarreled. The native had the blood of a leper injected into Lapeer's arm. Zola has been sentenced at Paris to pay a fine of 100 francs and 500 francs damages for accusing M. Judet, a writer of Le Petit Journal, of using forged documents in attacking M. Zola's father. M. Judet claimed 10,000 francs damages. Emperor Nicholas, according to a dispatch to the London Daily News from Odessa, is planning to meet Emperor Francis Joseph, Emperor William and President Faure early in the spring to impress upon them his disarmament proposals. Miss Stewart, a Boston girl who ried Count Rosemont de Rouge Aix and deserted him a few minutes after the ceremony, when she discovered that he

had only married her because her father bad agreed to pay" bis debts, baa been found in Vienna, where she was employed as a gov'erness. Hong Kong mail advices say the raising of large bodies of troops in China is taken to indicate that the empress dowager and her advisers are preparing some important movement next spring at the latest. So far, according to reliable statistics. there are some 130,000 men in and around Peking and Tien-Tsin. An imperial irade has been issued at Constantinople ordering the purchase of 102 Krupp field guns and 30,000 shrapnel shells. This is undoubtedly the outcome of the act of Emperor William on his return from' the Orient in presenting the Sultan of Turkey with a perfect model of the most modern Krupp field gun introduced into the German army.