Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The boiler of a torped< boat exploded at St. Petersburg, killing six persons. Rioters in Aberdeen broke up two peace meetings which Cronwrigbt Schreiner was to address. Two Chinese murderers of Missionary Brooks have paid the death penalty by proxy, having hired substitutes. Buddhists of Japan have contributed 500,000 yen for the reception of Buddha’s bqnes, which are to be sent from Siam to Tokyo. British troops are announced to have arrived at Mafeking and compelled the Boers to raise the siege. London is wild with joy. It has been officially announced in London that Hutton’s mounted infantry surprised and captured Commandant Botha and twenty-three others thirty miles northwest of Kroonstad. The strike disturbances In Berlin were mostly confined to the Roseyholerthor district. Two policemen were severely injured and two workmen have died from wounds inflicted with sabers. Fifty others were injured and 103 arrests were made. News has been received of a victory by the Colombian Government troops over the insurgents In a battle in the Vetaa district, which lasted seventy hours. Gens. Leal and Herrera were among the killed, who are said to have been very numerous, the slaughter being described as “horribltT’butehery.” The anti-forelgn movement in China, headed by the “Boxers,’’ has attained alarming proportions. There has been a serious anti-Christian outbreak near Pao-Ting-Fu, province of Pe-Chi-Li. Seventy-three native Christians were murdered, including women and children. Many were buined alive.