Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

France hits secured a new coaling port on the Persian gulf. Citizens of Linrnge. France, objected to a hospital for consumptives and stoned it until it wos ordered closed. The allies have entered Pekin without fighting, the legations are relieved and the foreigners itfe liberated. Arehhishop Ireland made an eloquent address before the Pope on tin- fidelity of American Catholics to the holy see. Lord Roberts, it is reported, has been appointed to succeed Lord Wolseley us commander in chief of the British nrmy. A telegram from Ostend states that an attack similar iu all points to that mode by the anarchist Raison in Paris on Aug. 2 has la-en made on the Shall of Persia Twenty persons were killed and injured in a railway smash-up itenr Plevna. Bulgaria. Among the killed is M. Petroff, brother of the former minister of war. 8h- Henry Simpson, veterinary surgeon to the Queen and former president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeon*, bus been found drowned in Buckinghamshire. A youth nhont 20 yean old was arrested at Leipsic who admits having conspired to kill King Albert of Saxony. He

says he was appointed by lot to perform the deed, but that his courage failed him. In the second serious accident which has happened since Ute Paris exposition opened, thirty persons were injured. Two persons were killed. At a fete a bridge was overcrowded and its railing gave way. Gen, De Wet is reported to have captured 4,000 British and seven guns, crippling the forces of Kitchener and Buller. He joined Delarey, then turned on his pursuers and completely outmaueuvered them. Diamonds, considered by London deal era superior to those from South Africa ana valued at from 25 to 50 per cent higher than those found in that region, have iu'i'n discovered at the diggings up the'Mazartini river in British Guiana.