Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Danish schooner laden with naphtha exploded in the Kattegat, seven men being killed. Cassel Grain-drying Company failed aa a result of the suspension of the Leipziger Bank. Korea is said to have requested the withdrawal of Japanese officials from that country. Socialists and ministerialists had a riotous quarrel in the Belgian chamber of representatives. Joseph Chamberlain announces the title of King Edward Is to be changed, and London believes this means he is to become "British Emperor.” (Jen. Lord Kitchener reports that the Boers Wrecked a ti'aiu at North Nabroomspruit. Nineteen persons were killed, including four natives. After cabling to Krueger, Gens. De Wet, Botha and others have notified all Boers that nothing short of independence will satisfy the Transvaal President. Prince von Hohenlohe-Schillingfuerst, formerly Chancellor of the German Empire, died at Rogatz, in Switzerland, of senile debility. He was 82 years old. Cantou advices by the steamer Braemer give details of the loss of 306 lives by a landslide and flood, occurring at Lung Keng in China. The landslide was caused by a tremendous earthquake which unsettled land and sea.