Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

Lord Milner, who has been the British high commissioner in South Africa during the war, has assumed office at Pretoria as governor of the Transvaal. Gov. Gen. Curzon of India reports that there have been heavy rains in many of the famine districts and a decrease in the number of persons receiving government aid. An American missionary in China reports that a Methodist chapel has been destroyed and ten Chinese Converts killed by Boxers in Sze-Chuen, the middle province of the western frontier of China, The Boxer movement in that region i» reported to be spreading rapidly. Charles M. Pepper, St. Louis World’s Fair commissioner to Cuba, who has returned to this country, after a four months’ stay in the island, reports that the industrial conditions in Cuba are bad and growing worse. He says the sugar plantations are doing almost nothing towards next year’s crop and many people are out of work. The Russian government has withdrawn from further participation in the foreign government of Tlen-tsin, the chief city of Pe-chi-Li province, thus throwing the onus for the new condition* for resumption of Chinese control of that city upon other nations. A government statement recently issued give* the total number of deaths from the plague In India from 1890 to March, 1902. as 852,000. With deaths not reported it is estimated that the number would reach 1,000,600. In the firat month* of 1902 the death* have increased enormously.