Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Official cholera statistics show a total up to date of 25.664 eases and 18.040 deaths in the Philippines. The actual number of cases and deaths is greatly in excess of the official reports. News has reached Barcelona, Spain, of a fearful cyclone at Felanit, on the Island of Majorca. Enormous damage is reported to have been done. Houses have been destroyed and lives have been lost. Officers of the steamer Dahome report a severe eruption of Mount Pelee, on the Island of Martinique. The eruption was followed by total darkness five miles away from the volcano. It was twenty minutes before it again became light. Admiral You Diedrichs has resigned his post as chief of staff of the German navy. He has been succeeded by Vice Admiral Buechsel. Emperor William in accepting Admiral Von Diedrich's resignation referred in highly flattering terms to his services. Replying to a correspondent who asked Field Marshal Lord Wolseley of England if the report was correct that he had described the American army as “the best in the world,” the field marshal .writes that he believes the quotation accurately describes that army. The American auxiliary yacht L’towana, owned by Allison V. Armour of New York, won the Earl of Crawford's Coronation cup in the sailing race which started from the Nab lightship at Cowes, Isle of Wight, to Cherbourg .and back, around the Eddystone lighthouse.