Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett died in London, the result of an operation for appendicitis. The Duke of Abruzzi may be sent as special commissioner from Italy to the St. Louis exposition. A wall of the Smithfield flax mills, in Belfast, Ireland, collapsed, burying the operatives, who included many women. Twenty-two persons were drowned in the sinking of the Norwegian bark Arab Steed, London for Christiania, in the North Sea. The explosion of the boiler of a spinning mill near Manresa destro.ved half the village of Puente de Vilumara, Spain. It is estimated that sixty persons were killed and 100 injured. Colombian insurgents surprised the government forces in the harbor of Panama, burned and sunk the Lautaro, killed Gen. Alban and many of his followers and scattered the survivors. A Belgrade correspondent telegraphs that King Alexander of Servia has requested the metropolitan of the Greek Church to arrange a divorce for him from Queen Draga. Gen. Laza, a lawyer named Markich and three other residents df Belgrade are named as corespondents. At the opening of Parliament by King Edward public interest was centered in the two leading issues of the nation—the Boer war and the Irish question. The King's speech from the throne defended the conduct of the war, and despite reports of cruelties by the British soldiers praised their treatment of the Boers.