Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Prof. Leopold Schenk, author of “Determination of Sex,” died at Schwanberg, Styria. Capt. Newman and son Edward arrived at Falmouth, England, in thirty-eight foot kerosene launch, after perilous voyage across Atlantic. The Earl of Dudley has been sworn in at Dublin as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (in succession to Earl Cadogan), resigned, in the council chamber of the castle. Members of the religious orders expelled from France, especially sisters, are applying to the Y’atican authorities for permission to settle in the United States. Canada has been suggested as a better field. In a dispatch from Hongkong a correspondent says there have been terrible floods in Kwang Si province, in which a thousand persons were drowned. Several houses collapsed at Hongkong and twenty persons were drowned. The little Japanese island of Torishima was overwhelmed by a volcanic eruption and all the inhabitants, numbering 150 persons, were undoubtedly killed. The island is covered with volcanic debris and all the houses have disappeared. One of the most disastrous fires which have ever occurred in YY’est Kootenay has been raging about Y’niir. Many square miles of timber have been burned and a number of mine buildings wiped out. YY’agon roads and bridges have also been destroyed. Cholera continues to spread in Manchuria and isolated cases have been reported in Siberia outside of Blagovestchensk, where it has a firm hold. At last reports there had been 274 eases and 179 deaths at Blngovestchensk and 445 cases ahd 285 deaths at Port Arthur. As the result of a storm which swept over Cape Town the British bark Highlands, Captain Smith, from New York for East London, and the British bark Brutus, Captain Dallachie, from London for Table Bay, have been wrecked off that coast. Chief Officer Bourke of the Highlands says that the bark sank almost instantly and that twenty-three of her crew were drowned.