Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The remount scandal in England draws attention to the fact that British agents have purchased 77,101 American horses and mules for service in South Africa at an approximate cost of $3,100,000. Mrs. Genevra Johnstone Bishop, the oratorio singer of Chicago, who arrived in Honolulu on the Sierra to sing solos in "The Messiah,” met with an accident two days after arriving there, breaking her arm in two places. Colombia, through consul general at Paris, has served notice on Panama Company that canal concession cannot be transferred to America without certain modifications. The move blocks temporarily at least sale to the United States. It is persistently reported that the Chilian and Argentine governments are secretly planning a direct settlement es the boundary controversy, in which Col. Sir Thomas 11. Holdich is acting as the expert for King Edward, the arbitrator. While Gov. Fiores of the province of Rizal, P. 1., was chasing Felizardo and his band of ladrones over the bills of Cavite province Felizardo, at the head of twenty-five men armed with rifles, entered the town of Cainta, in Morong province, and captured the presidents of Cainta, Seuor Antpil, and a majority of the police of the town. Cabling from I’ekin, the correspondent of the London Tinies says he has learned that the German agreement for the acquisition of a mining monopoly in ShanTung province is upon the eve of settlement and that it will confer great political advantages. The agreement will practically close a large part of ShanTung province to British and American industrial enterprise. Central Arabia is at present a hotbed of revolt and intertribal wars. Of the rebels Abdul Aziz Ben Teysul, a lineal descendant of the once powerful Wahabi Ameers, is showing the greatest strength. Abdul's army now numbers 4,000 and wherever he goes he terrorizes the country and gains one victory after another. His latest success was the capture of the city of El Riad, in central Arabia,