Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Doodica, one of the Hindu twins separated In Paris by a surgeon, is dead. A census of the unemployed in Berlin, taken Feb. 2, indicates that there are 75,(XX) persons totally without employment and about 40,000 partially unemployed. William Waldorf Astor, as a preliminary to going in for horse racing, has registered his colors under the London Jockey Club rules. They are light blue with pink sash and cap. Santos-Duinont, the aeronaut, met with s disaster at Monaco, and had a narrow escape from death. His airship is a tattered wreck, while his motor lies at the bottom of the bay of Monaco. "Laurie” Marks, the bookmaker wanted in connection with the Liverpool bank frauds, and said to have jumped from a steamer in the English channel, is believed to be alive at Springfield, Mass. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company in London from Lahore says that, under the new regime of nonintervention, the plague is ravaging the Punjab and a thousand deaths are occurring daily. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to a London news agency announces that the large town of Shumaku, Transcaucasia, has been destroyed by an earthquake. No details of the disaster have been received. The discussion itt the English Parliament of the Auglo-Japancse alliance convinced diplomats generally that the agreement is a triple instead of a dual alliance, the United States being the third, but silent, party. In the lower house of the Prussian diet the bill announced by the minister of commerce, Herr Moeller, Feb. 8, was introduced, placing 58,000,000 marks nt the disposal of the Prussian government for the purchase of mining property in the district of Dortmund, Westphalia. Details which nre slowly arriving from Shamnkn, Truns-Caucasiu, show that 2,000 persons, mostly women and childreh, perished ns a result of the earthquake last week and that 4,000 houses were destroyed. Thirty-four villages cf the country surrounding Shainaka also suffered.

The Constantinople correspondent of the Echo de Purls says that a plot against the Sultan has been discovered and that two of the Sultan's aids have been arrested, and it is reported that a number of courtiers are implicated in the plot. The object of the conspirators was either to kill the Sultan or imprison und dethrone him.