Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

De Wet has invaded the Transvaal men. CoJP? Bojii de Castellane is suffering from appendicitis. French government has promised to give American coal a fair trail. M. Ilcnri de Verninao, vice-president of the French Senate, is dead, aged 60. German budget report for next fiscal year will reveal a deficit of nearly 80,000,000 marks. Holders of the* notes given by Prince Henry, husband of Queen Wilhelmina, have thrown them on the open market. Many young girls, from 15 to 18 years of age, have been stabbed in the breasts by a red-headed man at night in public places in Moscow, Russia. The Dublin police seized William O’Brien’s weekly paper, the Irish People. It is reported that the seizure was made on account of reflections upon King Edward. The English House of Commons, by a vote of 307 to 58, voted the civil list for the King, the sum being fixed at $2,350,000 annually. The opposition was made up almost entirely of the Irish members. It is reported from Tikvesh, a vilayet of Balonica, that the Turkish police in that district are acting with great brutality toward the unfortunate inhabitants. Many Bulgarian residents In the Tikvesh district have been arrested and cruelly tortured.