Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Bubonic plague is gradually increasing in Asia Minor. Gen. De Wet has crossed the Vaal river and joined the commandos in the TransVaa). British ship Moel Try van foundered Dear Cherbourg, eleven of the crew drowning. Officer in Swedish ariiiy has invented an air torpedo with a range of nearly four miles. Czar of Russia has ordered 12,000 winter garments to be distributed among Fekin paupers. Samuel Lewis, London’s noted usurer, left an estate of $20,000,000, of which he willed $4,750,000 to charity. Premier Barton says the Australian commonwealth will own the railroads and have a protective tariff. Baron de Rothschild and Count de Li(bersae fought their long-expected duel, with rapiers, and the latter was badly wounded in the arm. The British steamer Kaisari, which sailed from Rangoon for Reunion, has been wrecked at Reunion. Twenty-five of the persons on board the vessel, including the captain, lost their lives.