Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A boat containing eight Spanish artillery officers was run down by a steamer at Gijon, Spain, and five of the officers were drowned.

Volcano Tacnna, in Guatemala, destroyed town of Itatalhulen and killed 1,000 persons. Mount I’elee again in violent eruption. Emigration from Copenhagen to the United States is assuming increasing proportions. The emigrants are mostly young Swedes who are leaving for America partly because of the more stringent military service regulations. The Birmingham Post, organ of Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, says that owing to liis age and infirmities the British government lias waived its claim for the acknowledgment by Mr. Kruger of British sovereignty over the Transvaal. The village of Cambulata, in a mountain pass of the L’ruch range, Russia, hus been destroyed by a landslide. A large rent suddenly appeared in the mountain, which shortly afterward toppled over on the village and the neighboring farms. The inhabitants escaped. Sixty arrests have been made in Pretoria ns the result of the discovery of an extensive plot to blow up the government buildings and Lord Kitchener's residence and to spike the guns in the artillery barracks. The parties concerned in this plot were lawyers, chemists and Boer and Dutch prisoners on parole.