Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Herr Krupp has given 1,500,000 marks to workingmen’s charities. London Daily News has been purchased by a syndicate of Radicals. Thirty-two Poles of Warsaw have been sent to Siberia on charges of treason. Manchuria has become a Russian protectorate under a new agreement with China. Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin has left Holland in anger over opposition to his marriage to Queen Wilhelmina. The reports of an outbreak of the plague at Vladivostok are confirmed. There have been nineteen cases, of which fifteen were fatal. It is reported that robbers recently attacked the customs station at Kumchuk, in the West River country of China, and obtained loot valued at SB,OOO. Gen. Viljoen is conducting a campaign of mine destruction in the north of Cape Colony. He has destroyed with dynamite British property valued at $250,000. In the course of a serious affray near Ishtib originating in an attempt to arrest a number of Bulgarians suspected of being emissaries of the Macedonian committee, eight Turkish soldiers were killed.