Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Pope is reported displeased at the way cardinals conducted the Philippine negotiations with Gov. Taft. Great Britain has proposed to the powers to relieve Chinn of eight indemnity installments, aggregating $90,000,000. The Vatican will withdraw friars from the Philippines, as asked by the United States. Other Spanish priests will replace them. A French doctor who inoculated himself with bovine tuberculosis claims tumors have resulted, thus disproving Dr. Koch’s theory. John W. Mackay, “bonanza mining king,” died at his London house after tn illness of five days. Heart failure was the immediate cause of death. The steamship Primus, of Hamburg, with 185 passengers on board, was cut in two and sunk by the tug Hansa on the River Elbe. About fifty persons were drowned. A typhoon swept Southern Luzon and sank the United States customs steamer Shearwater; nineteen members of her crew, including three Americans, were drowned. Au official notification was issued in London Friday morning that by the King's command the coronation of King Edward and Queen Alexandra will take place Aug. 9. Count Matsukata, former minister of finance of Japan, sees danger of a setback for United States, and believes Americans are doing too much business on borrowed capital. Secretary Taung of the Chinese legation to the United States, who has arrived from Europe, said the neW minister is a clever man, and that honors await Minister Wu iu China. Two hundred nnd nineteen Leyte bolomen surrendered and took the oath of allegiance to the American government. Two bands of ladrones were surrendered by constabulary and the majority killed. An unwritten agreement is said to exist between A. J. Balfour, the new premier of Great Britain, and Colonial Secretary Chamberlain that no appointments shall be made without the consent of Chamberlain. The St. Petersburg Novoc Vreniya publishes a dispatch from Seoul, Corea, which says that two American missionaries have been stoned and beaten on the line of the Seoul-Pusan Railroad by Japanese laborers. D. G. Longworth of Cairo, now in England, says that the Egyptian sphinx Is rapidly decaying. It will not now. he says, be able long to withstand the altering climate of Egypt due to the irrigation of recent years. The final summary of the Irish census returns have been presented to Parliament. It shows that during a hulf-cen-

tury over 3,000,000 persons have emigrated from Ireland, and that 80 per cent of these emigrants have gone to the United States. A severe earthquake shock was experienced at Bunder Abbas, Persia. All the chief buildings suffered. The governor’s house partly collapsed and the custom house was destroyed. The whole population was panic-stricken and flocked to the sea beach for safety, but only one fatality was reported. At Kieff, European Russia, fifteen persons were drowned by a sudden inrush of water into the basements of various houses in the lower portions of the town. A torrential rainstorm, accompanied by violent wind and hail, broke over Kieff and turned the streets into veritable torrents, flooding cellars and drowning their occupants before they were able to escape. Official dispatches received at St. Petersburg/ announce the serious spread of cholera in Manchuria, accompanied by great mortality. As an instance, it is cited that out of 643 cases at Inku 477 died. Up to July 4, at Kharbin. there had been 575 cases and 322 deaths up to July 10. At a score of other places affected cholera stations have been established, and the passengers on all trains are inspected by sanitary officers.