Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Cervcra has been made a vice admiral by the Queen Regent of Spain. Finns not occupying land will be given 2,000,000 marks by order of the Czar. Boers in bathing and shot seven of them. One of Prince Tuan’s proteges has started a rebellion iu the province of Kansu. The Manchester Evening Mail says Gen. Botha has formally surrendered to Gen. Kitchener. Sultan of Turkey has ordered 50,000 troops to put drfwn a threatened revolution iu Maredonia. Hunger has driven the peasant* t>f southern Italy to rioting and troops are protecting Ravenna. De Wet and Steyn, with 1,500 men, have crossed the Grunge river and escaped from their pursuers. Bodies of Verdi nnd his second wife were buried iu the chapel crypt of the Musicians’ Home at Milan. . . .. A band of seventy armed insurgents entered the town of Snog in the province of South Ilocos, Luzon, where they killed one native and abducted five. At midnight they attacked the town of Santa Maria, burning fifty houses. The insurgents were repulsed by the Americans, who had one man wounded.