Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Formal declaration of war upon Great Britain has been made by the South African republic of, the Transvaal. Private, advices from Coustantinople state Quit .thejßuitijto has recently caused several lqflieq his ha fern to be drowned in tbrjfdtypfecuawa charges of complicity in the : conspiracies of the young Turk B«ron> Farrer of Abingef the most distinguished Stiffly authorities on trade 'nnd finance secretary of the died suddenly in hia cigh ty rfiAPyoalv >. Telegrams from Linz,, capital of upper Austria, on the Danube, report that the inhabitants of that district are in a cut' dition of terror owing to a series of “Jack-the-Ripper” murders. The fifth occurred recently. The victim was a worn* an 50 years of age. News coming from southwest Africa brings news of the massacre of Lieut. Guise, German commissioner at Rio del Key, near Old Calabar river, and also of Heirr Leemeyer, a German trader, together with a hundred native ’ soldiers and carriers, constituting an expedition formed by Lieut. Guise to quell disturbances, near the Cross river, which forms the boundary between British and German territory there.