Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

George Douglas Brown, the author of the “House of the Greeu Shutters," died suddenly in London. Leading merchants and planters of Jamaica and Trinidad, tired of British rule, head agitation for annexation to the Unit•«d States. The Bolivian government has submitted proposals to Congress for the adoption of a gold standard at the rate of 20 pence for each sucre, the payment' of customs duties in gold at the same rate and for the abolition of the export duty on silver. The betrothal ceremony of Prince Nicholas of Greece and the Grand Duehese Helen occurred at the great palace at Tsarskoye Selo. Russia. The marriage service was held uftorward in the palace church, the metropolitan of St. Petersburg officiating. It is estimated that seventy persons were drowned in Algoa Bay, South Africa, during the storm which swept ever Port Elizabeth. Among the wrecked vessels is the British ship Inc-heapc Rock. Captain Ferguson, which arrived at Algoa Bay Aug. 2 from Portland, Ore, Part of her crew was saved. More than 200 residents of Martinique are known to have been killed by. Mount Peiee's latest destructive, but most beautiful series of eruptions. The village of Morue Rouge, near the volenno, was wiped out. The village of Le Carbct, devastated when St. Pierre was overwhelmed, was swept by a tidal wave. A Singapore telegram to the China Mall says that a collision occurred in the Straits of Malacca between the Dutch mail steamer Prinz Alexander and the British steamer Ban 11 in Guin. The Prinz Alexander sank and the first officer and the first engineer nnd nineteen passengers aud members of the crew were drowned.