Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Edward VII. was crowned King of the British Empire at Westminster Abbey in London. A great fire at Port au Prince, Hayti, burned sixty houses, causing damage estimated at $200,000. English investors in American railroad securities are taking out policies on ,T. P. Morgan’s life, fearing he will be killed. Russia is losing influence in Corea; defiance of latter in appointing Kato, a Japanese, as court councilor over Czar's protest is now explained by JapaneseBritish alliance. The semi-annual report of the Deutsche Genossfschaft bank at Berlin, emphasizes the existing industrial depression. The report shows that the bank lost $867,500 in industrial enterprises. The Brussels Petit Bleu announces the sudden death of General Lucas Meyer of heart disease. General Meyer was attacked several times with this illness during the war in South Africa. Osborne House, the favorite palace of Queen Victoria, has been presented to the British nation by King Edward as a gift in memory of his coronation, to be converted into a sanitarium for ailing officers. The governor of the Island of Guam reports through the Navy Department at Washington that the people of Guam desire to make a good showing at the St. Louis world's fair. The governor is with them and will do all he can to have the island creditably represented at the fair. The Paris Matin declares that the crown prince of Germany, after an escapade at Bonn, where he is attending the university, had a violent interview with Emperor William. It is said he expressed to his father his desire to renounce his rank and claim to the throne. He is 20 years old.