Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

EMizzia Tewfik, a Turkish state councilor aud distinguished writer, has been exiled to Asia Minor for writing an article displeasing to the Sultan. Several cases of plague have been reported at Cawnpore recently. A body of rioters attacked the segregation camp and severai persons were killed. Amid pomp and pageantry that would have been magnificent for the empire, the French republic formally inaugurated its third exposition at Paris on Saturday. A landslip has occurred at Klappai, Bohemia, causing a hili to move. Fifty-two houses built on the hill have fallen in, and it is apparent that the rest of the village will follow. In the chamber of deputies at Brussels the premier, M.. de Smet de Naier, read a communication from King Leopold, ip which his majesty presented to the nation the whole of his real estate. The Paris Petit Journal declares that a plot to assassinate President Loubet has been discovered at Nice. Three Italians are implicated in the plot, and one of them, the paper asserts r .has already started for Paris to do the deed. As the result of the wreck of a fishing boat on the north Cornish coast of England three fishermen and eight lifeboat men were drowned. The lifeboat went to the rescue of the imperiled fishermen and was upset in the attempt to save their lives. A Chinaman, arrested and beaten at Wuchang, claims he is the Emperor, according to news brought by the steamer Rio Jun Marti. He claims he escaped from the castle, where the empress dowager had him prisoner, and has since traveled incognito. The prisoner had documents bearing the seal of the court. An investigation is being made.