Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is reported that many persons were killed in strike riots at the Cotton mills on the Neva, Russia. House of Commons adopted Secretary of War Broderick's army reform scheme by a vote of 305 to 103. Discoveries of gold in northern Manchuria have greatly excited the inhabitants of Vladivostok and the Amur valley. In a fire which destroyed the workhouse at Stafford, England, seven of the eleven aged inmates were burned to death. Sergt. Maj. Butler, who had just returned from South Africa to London, shot five of iiis children, killing four of them, llis wife and baby escaped. It is asserted in London that a Chinese loan of £00,000,000, with an international guaranty, has been practically arranged to be issued as soon as pofiticul affairs in China settle down. According to advices from Seoul, the Corean government has leased to Japan 430 acres of land to form a settlement at Ma Sau Pho. The land in question was formerly anxiously sought by Russia. Gen. MncArthur celebrated the surrender of the insurgent generals, Mascardo and Lacuna, by releasing 1,000 Filipino prisoners. Gen. Moxica, the insurgent chief on the island of Leyte, has surrendered with thofeemuunt of his command.