Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Rufino, who spent $30,000 in his efforts to incite a rebellion in the province ol Misamis, island of Mindanao, now declares he is tired of war. He has offered to surrender with seventy-five rifles to the native constabulary. The wholesale banishment .of university students to Siberia and other penal colonies is the latest plan of the Russian government to suppress the frequent riots in the large -cities, which threaten to evolve into a revolution. The Turkish government has decided to call to the colors 90,000 irregular troops. This mobilization is ostensibly for the annual maneuvers, but in view of •the conditions in Macedonia significance is attached to the movement. Reports from To-Ming-Fu, the southernmost prefecture of the province of CheLee. show that the soldiers slaughtered 1,000 villagers. It is believed that these reports are exaggerated, but it is not doubted that there was great loss of life. About 1,500 Boers under Delarey, Liebenborg, Kemp and Wolmarans were within the area of Lord Kitchener’s latest movement, but though surprised by the rapidity displayed by the British troops, gaps in the latter’s lines enabled most of the burghers to escape. The Pekin correspondent of the London Times cables that Paul Lessar, the Russian minister to China, and Prince Ching, president of the Chinese foreign office, have agreed upon the main conditions of the Manchurian convention and that the early signing of the agreement is expected. The evacuation of three provinces is to be carried out in three successive periods of six months.