Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Eight new warships will be added to the German navy this year. Municipality of Berlin has bought an electric tram system for 10,000,000 marks. Anti-Jesuit riots in Spain have spread to A’aleuciu, where the Jesuit college was attacked. The Boer attack on the Boksbnrg mines resulted in damages amounting to £300,000. King Edward has conferred the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order on Count von Metteruich. Italian Senate has passed a law making the house in which A’erdl was born a national monument. When King Edward VII. was proclaimed in Cork many Irishmen cheered for Kruger and De AVet. A dispatch from Cairo says severe fighting is reported in Abyssinia. The casualties are said to number 7,000. Duke Henry, who is to marry Queen Wilbolminn, made his state entry into The Hague and’ was received with enthusiasm. The French torpedo boat No. 24 sank w'ithiu a mile of the harbor at Havre as the result of a boiler explosion. All the crew were lost with the exception of two. The funeral of England’s dead queen, A’ictoria, was held with great pomp and ceremony at Windsor, and her remains now repose in the royal mausoleum at Frogmore. Tommy Atkins, one of the best 2-year-ohls on the American turf last season and second only to Commando in the stable of James It. nud F, P. Keene, is dead iu England.