Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — FOREIGN, [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN,

Young King Alfonso of Spain attended hl* first bull fight. Foxhall Keene has given to charity $13,250, half of the Oaks stakes. Royalists of Paris had planned a coup d'etat, to be headed by Col. VillebolaMareull, who was killed in South Africa. Dr. San Yet Sen. reformer, has gone to China to start a revolution to overthrow the Empress Dowager and the mandarin*. An explosion in a cartridge factory situated In the suburb of Les Moullneaux, near Paris, has resulted In the loss of fifteen lives and the Injuring of about twanty person*. The victim* were horribly mutilated. Eddie Guerin of Chicago, world-famous a* a bank sneak, Highwayman and robber, ha* been arrested in Paris, France,

and his identity established by thg Pinkerton agency of Chicago. His latest crime was the robbery of the Express Company’s Paris office. The village of Nanders, Tyrol, wat swept by a flood nnd twenty-eight of its inhabitants are missing. A dam which protected the village from the high level of a lake outside the place was burst by a storm .and the water rushed down, sweeping sixteen houses before it. A Are at the Galleys Island shipyards, St. Petersburg, consumed the slips, the cruiser Witjas and other vessels, the government and other buildings there and a large stock of timber. According to the Novoe Vremya, twelve persons lost their lives in the flames. The damage done amounts to 10,000,000 rubles.