Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Brilliant comet nenr Aldebaran is reported from Australia and Capo Town. Ministers at Pekin say that by July 1 the indemnity claims will amount to $325,000,000. Editor Stead says, Concerning the canal treaty, that Great Britain will have to fight or eat humble pie. French authorities have discovered a plot to sell plans of guns to Krupp; several arrests have been made. Army transport Kilpatrick is detained in quarantine at Honolulu with two eases of small-pox ou board. London hears that horses bought In America for use in South Africa have been infected with glanders by emissaries of the Boers. Seventeen miners were killed and seven were injured by an explosion of fire damp in the Grand Buiseon coal .mine at Hornu, Belgium. As a result of American activity in Ilocos, P. L, 115 officers aud 2,150 bolomen have surrendered and sworn allegiance to the United States at Narvacan. i Fifty persons were killed and three times as many more or less seriously injured by an explosion and subsequent tire in the Greisheim elcctro-chemicai works, located near Frankfort, Germany. The Empress Dowager, fearing that her authority is waning and wishing to hamper the future actions of the Emperor, has appointed a board of six regents to manage the affairs of the empire. About 20,000 persons are reported to have died of famine iwhe Russian provinces of Kherson nnd Bessarabia since February, and the famine cannot fail to reach a stage of even greater severity before the crops of 1901 mature. The international detachment of 800 men under Colonel Radford which left Shan-Hai-Kwan, China, to punish the force es “Boxers” and robbers that recently attacked the Indian troops, killing Major Browning, met tire enemy in force, killing fifty. •