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

IN GENERAL

The steamship Empress of China, which hns arrived at Victoria, B. C„ from China nnd Japan, reports having passed through a typhoon on the Chinese coast, blit suffered no dumnge. A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico, snys that a terrible wreck took place cn the Mexican Central nenr BermcjUlo. Many ihtsoiis are said to have been killed and the injured list is long. Three persons were killed, three mortally wouuded, and several others seriously iujured in a political riot which occurred In llumacuo, Porto Rico. Hundreds of shots were fired during the disturbances. The Navy Department has received tho official report on the explosion aboard the submarine torpedo boat Holland. The explosion resulted in the blowing of the only man on board, 11. K. Holland, through the hatchway, but no terioua damage of any kind was done.