Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Opening of the French Soudan to European traffic is announced. Henrik Ibsen is suffering from paralysis and can scarcely walk or talk. Kaiser has barred reporters from all functions where he intends to speak. Kail Eukeljon, Norwegian spy of the Filipino junta, has been arrested at Manila. Three British warships have been ordered to Saloniea in connection with the Turkish postoffiee dispute. The volcano of Keloet, Java, is in eruption. The lava is threatening the Blitar coffee plantations and has endangered Kedinli. The district is in total darkness. In an explosion at the Universal colliery at SengPnhyde, near Monmouth, England, seventy miners were killed. A relief party which descended into the pit came up two hours later prostrated by after-damp. The Khedive, doubtless acting on the advice of Lord Cromer, the British diplomatic agent, has pardoned Arabi Pasha, the leader of the Egyptian rebellion iu 1882, and Mustapha Fehmy, bis second in command, who were sentenced to banishment for life. Capt. Frederick J. Barrows, late depot quartermaster of the department of southern Luzon, sentenced to five years; Capt. James C. Reed, late depot commissary at Manila, to three yenrs, and Lieut. Frederick Boyer, late depot commissary at Calamba, to one year’s imprisonment. have been incarcerated in Bilibid prison at Manila. A bottle which was picked up at Granton, England, contained a message saying that the steamer Croft, with all hands, was sinking in mid-Atlantic. The British steamer Croft of the Arrow line, laden with grain and general merchandise, sailed from New York Jan. 25, 1899, for iSeith and Dundee, with a crew of twenty-five men and was never again heard of. King Victor Emmanuel, returning from a walk in Rome, entered the elevator to reach his apartments on the second story of the palace, and an inexperienced servant set the indicator for the third story. Arriving at the second story, the King was on the point of stepping out as the elevator continued to ascend, but his majesty jumped back in the nick of time and thus escaped being crushed.