Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The. Chinese ambassador la London, whose wife died some time ago, cabled for another, who'hus arrived. The Russian government announces that it will give Japan a free hand to apply military force in China. An official dispatch from Nikolsky, Russia, says that fifty persous were killed by an explosion of stores of powder at Mukden. Emperor Kwnng-Su of China committed suicide by taking poison under compulsion of Prince Tuan. The empress dowager also took poison and is insane from the effects of the drug. The Paris Aurore learns from a good source that a young attache of the Unjted States embassy disappeared several days ago. The police are making an active search for the young man, who, it is feared, has been murdered. 1 A report has been received from Shanghai that 5,000 native Catholic converts in Pekin have been massacred by the Boxers after the foreigners were murdered. The city is described as an inferno and the streets as running with blood. The assize court in Brussels returned a verdict of guilty of attempt to kill the Prince of Wales, against Jean Baptiste Sipido, who tired at the prince on April 4, as the train bearing his royal highness was leaving the northern station in that city for Copenhagen. The court considered that Sipido acted without discerainent and released him. Meert, Penehot and Meire, the instigators of the attack upon the prince, were acquitted on the ground that they considered. the plot a joke.