Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

United States warship has arrived at Tmtgicr, Morocco, t»r sojtjwzrt the--claim for indemnity for the murder of Marcos Essaglu. The Japanese liner Futaini Marti, hound from AtiAtt-all.t to Manila, with supplies for the American Government, went ashore on the Island of Mindanao mid is a total wreck. The crew was saved. An outbreak of Chinese is reported at Amoy. American and British missions were pillaged and burned and a Japanese temple destroyed by the mob. Marines from Japanese warships were landed in order to protect officials and property. Pretoria advices state Lieut. Cordtia, formerly of the Boer army, was shot by a squad of British soldiers in the public square. t'ordua was found guilty of conspiracy to kidnap Lord Roberts and assassinate the British officers in the Transvaal capital and was sentenced to death liy a military court. Letters found among the papers of Gen. Ricart, who was recently assaulted at Manila, reveal that a plot had been formed to capture the city. Several dates, running from January to June, were set for tire execution of the attack, but the conspirators were forced to countermand the orders for eavh instance. Margaret Mituiehan. a nun, committed, suicide by jumping from the French liner T,’ Aquit.cq, I,i< h she was a ipassetiger, when the ship was L2l>o miles east of Sandy Hook. Miss Minnehiin had been a nun, but her love for a young man caused her to leave the convent, mid she felt she h.-’d disgraced her family.