Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Pope has entered on the twentyfifth year of his pontificate. Information was received at the American consulate at Salonieh that Miss Ellen M. Stone and her companion, Mrs. Tsilka, have been released and arrived at the village of Strumnitza at 3 o’clock Sunday morning in good health. It is freely stated in London that Gen. Louis Botha, the chief Boer commandant, had managed to get direct communication with Lord Milner aud had offered to surrender on certain conditions, the chief being that he shall not be bauished from South Africa. Gen. De Wet, with 400 followers, broke back northward through the blockhouse line, ten miles west of Lindley, Orange River eolouy. The blockhouses opened fire on the Boers, two of whom were killed. The remainder got away to their old ground near Reitz. Spain is in the throes of a revolution, having for its storm center Barcelona, where bloody riots are of daily occurrence. Government fears civil war everywhere, and the destinies of the nation are in the hands of Gen. Weyler, who commands the army forces. A detachment of the Scots Greys (Second Dragoons), one of Great Britain’s crack dragoon regiments, has been cut up by the Boers at Klipdam. Maj. C. W. M. Feilden and Capt. E. Ussber were severely wounded, two men were killed, six wounded and forty-six captured.

At the annual meeting of the Wilsons and Union Tube Company in Glasgow the chairman said no dividend could be declared because of the unparalleled slump ip prices, due to American competition and the dissolution of the combination of tubemakers. The directors decided to close the works at Govan. What is believed to have been the largest existing band of insurgents in Batangas province, Luzon, has surrendered to Lieut. Charles D. Rhodes of the Sixth cavalry at Banan. Maj. Amoranto, two captains, six lieutenants and ninety-eight Filipino soldiers gave themselves up, and also surrendered five revolvers, sixty-six rifles and two thousand rounds of ammunition.