Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Pilgrim Club, a new organization to bring Englishmen and Americans together, has been launched in London. The inability of King Edward to leave his couch causes uneasiness in Dindon and talk of a possible second postponement of the coronation. The law at Lorenzo Marques requires former British prisoners returning to South Africa to have at least SIOO before they are allowed to land. Earthquakes have occurred daily nt Bunder-Abbas, Persia, since July 9. The inhabitants are camping on the beach and there is great suffering on account of the abnormal heat. Other towns in the

vicinity were damaged and the old forfr ress of Ormuz was destroyed. The losa of life is believed to have been small. The com beetle has done immense damage to the crops in many districts in the government of Kherson, Russia, and in a large area of Bessarabia. Two hundred thousand acres have been ravaged. All the planters of the larger West Indian Islands are talking of annexation to the United States, owing to their dissatisfaction over the small amount of money contributed by the imperial government to help the sugar industry. One hundred and twenty-four cases of cholera have been reported in Cairo, Egypt. The drinking fountains have been closed. The epidemic is of almost virulent character. Many of the natives are attacked in the street and die in a few minutes. Cholera, which had been diminishing for a week, suddenly increased to seven-ty-eight cases in Manila Saturday, the largest since the outbreak. The removal .<f the quarantine on fruits and vegetables possibly accounts for the renewed outbreak. President Loubet of France signed a decree submitted by the Premier, M. Combes, ordering the forcible closure of twenty-six congregationalist schools in Paris and in the department of the Seine which have refused to disperse voluntarily. Decrees closing forcibly similar schools In other departments will be signed so soon as the prefects’ reports are received. A serious situation is prevailing in the Catholic country around Brest on account of the closing of the unauthorized schools. The countryside has taken up arms and is determined to resist any attempt at the forcible execution of the orders of the Premier. Placards have been posted in the townships urging resistance to the police. In the British House of Lords Lord Burghelere, Liberal, asked Lord Onslow, Under Secretary for the Colonial Office, it he could inform the House regarding the alarming statements that Canadian land was being bought up by Americans, of whom 200,000 were said to have emigrated to Canada this year. The Under Secretary said he thought Lord Burghelere’s figures were incorrect. In 1901 the number of Americans who emigrated to Canada was 17,987, while to the most recent date this year the number was 24.100. The Under Secretary also said that in Western Canada land was being taken up with unexampled rapidity, not only by Americans, but by Englishmen and other Europeans, which bid fair to make the Canadian wheat fields an important factor in the wheat supply of the world.