Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Lord Kimberley, the English Liberal statesman, who had been ill for some time, is dead. The will of Cecil Rhodes leaves milllions for free scholarship at Oxford University. Every State and Territory in America is given a scholarship, tenable for three years, and provision is made for German students. In a dispatch from Pekin, in which the advantages secured by China in the revised Manchurian treaty are indicated, the correspondent says that China submitted this convention to Great Britain, Japan and the United States and that all three powers expressed approval of it. High diplomatic circles in London are discussing plans, believed to be far advanced, for a visit by the Prince of Wales to the United States. The Prince's visit will be in acceptance of an invitation to the dedication of the magnificent new home of the New York Chamber of Commerce. The struggle of the ero-vds which gathered at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, Scotland, to witness the last International Association football contest between teams from England and Scotland caused the collapse of a portidn of one of the spectators’ terraces, resulting in the death of 22 persons and the Injury of 250 others. Two cases of cholera have occurred in the Bulibid prison at Manila. Consequently all the prisoners there have been discharged and will be taken to a detention camp, which will be quarantined. The total number of cases of cholera reported here was 140 and there have been 115 deaths from the disease. It is officially announced that the Persian government, with the consent of Russia, is about to issue n new gold loan of 10,000,000 rubles, with interest at 5 per cent, guaranteed by nil the Persian customs with the exception of the customs of the Persian gulf and the ports of the Province of Farsistan. The Vali of Adrianople, European Turkey, telegraphs that a band of Bulgarians with the object of provoking retaliation, recently killed and mutilated three Mussulman peasants and a boy, near KirkKi liaseh, and then sought refuge in Bulgaria, hoping to be pursued and anticipating that a conflict would ensue with the frontier guard.