Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Verdi, the Italian composer, is dead at Milan. His best-known works are “11 Trovatore,” “La Traviata” and “Aida.” , An operation was performed on Mr. Kruger's eyes at Utrecht by Profs. ler and Dhreymans. The operation was perfectly successful. Lord mayors of Irish cities were elected as follows: Dublin, Timothy Charles Harrington, M. I’.; Cork, Aiderman Fitzgerald; Limerick, John Daly. Most of the German papers say there is no reason to doubt the amicable disposition of Albert Edward toward Germany and of the continuance of hearty relations between the two countries. At the Old Bailey in London Julian T. B. Arnold, sou of Sir Edwin Arnold, who was ordered extradited from San Francisco in October last, charged with misappropriating trust funds, was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. While the Queen Regent and her children were boating in the royal park on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, a shot wus fired from the bank and penetrated the gunwale of the-boat. The park was searched, but the assailant was not discovered. The remains of a young man of refined features, which have been in the morgue in Paris for two weeks, when they were found floating in the Seine, have been identified as those of Thomas L. Harris, an artist well known in the American colony. His father is supposed to be Henry Harris of Kansas City. He had not lived with his parents for some time, an aunt having adopted him. He was only able to make a precarious living by the brush and debts began to annoy him.