Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1901 — FOREIGN, [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN,

Allies have agreed to evacuate Pekin Aug. 14. Dnke of Connaught was installed grand master of British Free Masons. Civil rule has been withdrawn from Cebu and Bohol and the province of Batangas, Luzon. Gen. Cavero, a Carlist leader, was killed and many persons wounded in religious riots at Saragossa, Spain. Mrs. Kruger, wife of tKe former President of the Transvaal republic, who is now in Europe, died after a short illness. Representatives of the powers at Pekin have agreed upon a plan for the payment of the 450,000,000 taels of indemnity and China has aecOfted it. Earl Russell, arraigned at the bar of the House of Lords in London for trial on the charge of bigamy, pleaded guilty after lengthy- arguments against thd jurisdiction of the court. George Herrick, formerly of New York, one of the oldest members of the American colony in London, was found dead in bed. He had lived in the English metropolis for twenty years.