Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Lord Pauncefote has tendered his resignation as ambassador to Washington and asked immediate acceptance. A college building collapsed at Lerida, Spain. Many pupils were buried in the ruins. The director and five children perished. A bomb was discovered in apartment of train occupied by Emperor Francis Joseph shortly before his departure from Vienna for Budapest. King Alexander has accepted the resignations of the Servian cabinet. M. l’assies, formerly a Radical, has been intrusted with the formation of a new ministry.

Gabriel Lopez aud sfte?n other anarchists arrested at Madrid confessed a plot to kill King Alfonso at coronation. Nine dynamite cartridges were found in their possession. Earthquakes are reported from the southern part of Portugal, but no fatalities occurred. The disturbances are supposed to be connected with the upheavals iu the West Indies.

A destructive hurricane has swept over the province of Sciude, British India, and many lives were lost. Forty miles of the Scinde Railroad were washed away and bridges, houses and embankments disappeared. The lower part of Lisbon, Portugal, has been partly destroyed by fire. The municipal petroleum stores nre burned nnd the garrison has turned out to assist in checking the fire. The losses are incalculable.

Aufonso XIII., attaining his majority, has become King of Spain in fact as well as in name. When he had taken his oath to uphold the constitution, his mother, the queen regent, kissed his extended hand in token of allegiance. A riot occurred at Kingston, Jamaica, between soldiers aud civilians, in which twenty of the populace were wounded. Parties of soldiers from the West Indian colored regiment made a sortie from the camp and attacked people in the street* with razors lashed to sticks. The civilians ttsed nail-studded clubs. Numbers on both sides were injured.