Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is officially announced that the triple alliance in Europe will be renewed in its old form. The London Financial News says it is stated the loan of $5,000,000 to be raised by Corea will be financed in the United States instead of Japan. Oriental advices say that Japan was visited by a cyclone recently. It destroyed seventeen fishing villages, killing forty persons and injuring hundreds of others. General strikes involving tens of thousands of men and affecting many industries are started all over Belgium. Troops to the number of 35,000 are called into service. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in budget statement in the English House of Commons, proposed revival of’ancient duties on grain and flour because of heavy w’ar cost. Britain’s balance sheet for the year shows deficit of £58,000,000. Emperor William has undergone a surgical operation on the face, a fact that became known when he canceled an engagement for himself and the-Empress to dine at the Austrian embassy. It is said the operation is not serious. At the close of the celebration of a grand mass the tower of the cathedral of Cienta, in Madrid, collapsed and destroyed three adjoining houses and part of the doisters. Two bodies and a number of injured persons have been recovered from the ruins. The Italian authorities continue to collect “conscience money” for the Vatican as a result of their efforts to run down the miscreants who robbed the pontiff of 8,000,000 francs. The latest parcel of stolen property returned consisted of SBO,OOO in American government bonds. The French Minister of the Colonies, M. Dechais, has received the report of a revolt in French Congo. On March 4 a large body of natives came down the banks of the Sangha river. They looted all the factories, massacring all the officials, European and native, at the Keleinpa. M. Cazeneuve, director of the Sangha River Company, was killed and the factory, containing goods worth $30,000, was pillaged.