Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

In Russia the meteoric displays caused a panic in many places. It was believed that the end of the world had come. There are rumors that in some villages Russian parents murdered their children to save them from an expected worse fate. A special cable from Panama, Colombia, se.ys: Official advices from Bogota report that a terrible battle between the Government forces and the revolutionists was fought near Bucara Manga, in which the Government forces were victorious. More than 1,000 rebels were killed. C. I*. Greathouse, who was consul general of the United States to Kaugawa, Japan, from 1880 to 1889, died at Seoul recently. At the time of his death Mr. Greathouse was adviser to the Coreau Government, a position he had held without Interruption during his ten years’ residence in Corea. The famine which is spread over the greater portion of Bombay district of India is daily becoming more acute. The enormous number of 951,523 men are employed on various relief works, but therft are still millions of persons destitute for whom no relief can be provided and who must inevitably starve to death unless immediate outside assistance is forthcoming.