Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Lord Methuen defeated the Boers in a battle at llaurtbeesfontein. Sugar refiners of France are beginning tiie formation of a big trust. TVo first-class cruisers for the British navy were launched on the Clyde. There Is an Arab uprising iu Yemen, Arabia, ngainst Turkish authority. Don Carlos, Spanish pretender, is said to hnva abdicated in favor of his son, Don Jaime. , Gen. Dewet has been driven from Cape

Colony. His guns have been captured, his force* have been broken and disorganised, and he himself compelled to fly across the Orange river. Earl Roberts is likely to lie made lord warden of the Cinque ports and constuble of Dover Castle. Uganda natives paid much of the taxes to Great Britain in elephants, zebras, snakes and monkeys. Acting President Sehalkburger of the Transvaal is said to have joined the ranks of the peace advocates. . Twenty-eight bodies of members of a self-immolating sect bays been dug up by Russian officials at Terashol. A shocking accident occurred at the Second hospital attached to the medical school of the Tokyo University, Japan, The building was entirely destroyed by fire and twenty-one of the patients were burned to death. Twenty-one persons were injured, while at the time of the last mail there were a few persons missing.