Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1900 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN.
Honor Canevaro, Peruvian minister to Frunce, and twelve others were killed lu ! a railway accident near Bayonne. Mutiny in the Atlirns military prison wns quelled by troops, who killed eight m«*n and wounded several hundred. Julian T. B. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold, was at London committed for trlnl on n charge of misappropriating trust funds. The Duke of Manchester was married tn London t* Miss Helena Zimmerman, daughter of Eugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati. Owing to opposition to the marriage by the relative* of both bride and groom the wedding was quU:t. A rumor is current in Ibdne that the illncaa of the Czar U due to pois^nlug,
and it is asserted that cipher telegrams have been received at the Vatican saying that an ntterapt was made to poison both the Emperor and Empress, but that the latter was not affected. Emperor William was the object of an attempted outrage at Breslau, which, however, failed. As he was driving in. an op™ carriage to the Cuirassier barracks, accompanied by the hereditary prince of Saxe-Meiningen, a woman in the crowd hurled an nx at the carriage. The rapidity with which the vehicle was passing saved its occupants. The ax struck the carriage. The woman was immediately arrested. She is believed to be insane. The woman’s name is Selma Schnapke. She occupied a place in the front rank of the spectators, on the side furthest from the Emperor. A crowd of people who witnessed the outrage threw themselves on his majesty’s assailant, but the prompt intervention of the police saved the woman from injury.
