Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Russia is accused of fomenting the recent anti-foreign outbreak in Chinn, Manchuria and Mongolia being given as the price of her Support of the dowager empress. The Boers ambushed a party of the Scots Grays near Bronkhorstspruit, about forty miles east of Pretoria on the railroad. The British casualties were six men killed and ten wounded. Pandia Ralli, the well-known magazine contributor who went to the Philippines as a volunteer and who recently was seeking his fortune in the coal fields of the islands, was murdered near Mavitoc, P. I. The British steamer Alfonso and the Spanish steamer Vilelva, both loaded with coal, collided off Aveiro, Portugal. Both vessels sunk. Eighteen men of the Alfonso and one man belonging to the Vilelva were drowned. The fact has developed that the injury sustained by Prof. Rudolph Virchow in slipping as he was alighting from a street ear in Berlin, was a fracture of the thigh bone. The professor is doing well, c6nsidering the nature of his injury. A dispatch from Kiev. European Russia, says a bomb was exploded under the balcony of the palace of the Grand Duke Constantine. A great panic followed; but nobody was injured. Nihilist students are suspected of committing the outrage. Unknown French bark collided with and sunk the Pacific coast steamer Walla Walla off Cape Mendocino and of the 144 persons on board twenty-seven are believed to have perished. The Frenchmen made no effort to assist the drowning passengers. The British admiralty has invited the Clyde shipyards to tender bids for the construction of two battleships, each of 10,500 tons, five armored first-class cruisers and two protected cruisers. The officials ask for promptness. Work on twenty warships in course of construction may be expedited. Lieut. Charles D. Rhodes of the Sixth cnvalry, accompanied by two orderlies, when within six miles of Manila, came across twenty armed insurgents in a cuartel, or barracks. The insurgents shouted “Americanos” and Lieut. Rhodes feigned a retreat. Then seeing that the insurgents were off their guard he took the cuartel in a flank and drove out the insurgents, capturing arms and ammunition. Rhodes then burned the barracks down and proceeded to Manila.