Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

China is said to have granted Italy a concession at San Mun Bay. Memorial of Commodore Perry’s landing in Japan was unveiled at Kurihama. Young wife of William S. Wedge, nn American, was drowned at Stratford-on-Avon. It is reported King Edward will sell much old furniture and brie-a-brac from the'royal palaces. , Lord Kitchener indorses the charge that British wounded at Vlukfontein were murdered by the Boers. Miss Hamilton, an American, has been given the degree of Ph. D. cum laude by University of Heidellierg. A eublegram from Rivn, Italy, announces the death of Mrs. Brown, wife of Justice Brown of the United States Supreme Court. Captain Mayo of the Germun steamer Tanis, from Hamburg for Montevideo, cables that his vessel ran ashore at Punta Mogotes and is a total loss. Her passengers and crew are proceeding to Montevideo A fire at the West India docks in London, destroyed a number of huge sheds and their contents. The amount of the damage dene is estimated at £250,000. Sugar and timber warehouses were involved in the conflagration. The custom house was damaged, but the vessels in the docks were removed in safety. The Cologne Gazette publishes a dispatch from Seoul, Corea, saying that bloody conflicts, extending over a period of ten dnys, have occurred on the island of Quelpart between Roman Catholic missionaries and their pupils and the populace of the islaud. Fifteen of the natives anil about 300 of the .mission pupils are reported to have been killed during the encounters.