Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

William McKinley Osborne, United States consul general at London, is dead after lingering illness. Fifty persons were injured in an accident on the Great Eastern Railway, near Hackney Downs station, London. Ambassador White reports Emperor William of Germany as saying in reference to the Monroe doctrine: "I have no intention of acquiring even the smallest island jn the western hemisphere.” Lieut. Col. Frank D. Baldwin, who is operating against the Moros on the Island of Mindanao, telegraphs that • the capture of Sultan Pualo's fort has had a most salutary effect. The dattos are submitting. Count Zeppelin, the aeronaut, has been ruined financially by his experiments with airships. He is unable to obtain any further support ip Germany for his projects and he is breaking up the old frameworks of his airships. He has sold five tons of aluminum. More than 3,500 rebels on the island of Samar have surrendered and given up their arms to the American authorities. Chief of the capitulating forces Is Guevarro, who succeeded Gen. Lukbau last February as the commander of the entire insurgent forces of the island. Goa. Guevarro, together with forty officers, 189 men and 161 rifles, is now in custody of Gen. Frederick Dent Grant on an American gunboat at the mouth of the Gandara river, west coast of the island.