Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, an honorary secretary and director of the Imperial Institute and former president of several scientific bodies, is dead iu London. During the maneuvers near Tivoli, Italy, a military balloon burst and sixteen soldiers were badly injured in consequence. Two of the men were fatallyhurt. The explosion of the balloon is attributed to intense heat. The gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot, which was in the service of the Firminist party, has been sunk at the entrance of the harbor of Gonaivgs, Hayti, by the German gunboat Panther. The crew of the Crete-a-Pierrot left her before she went down. A Boxer proclamation has been posted at Canton, China, inciting the slaughter of foreigners. It is as-cribed to the commencement of work on the Canton-Han-kow Railroad and to the collection of funds for the payment of the foreign indemnity. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has ordered that the Italian armored cruiser Carlo Alberto, on board of which wireless experiments have been proceeding for some time, be placed at the further disposal of William Marconi for experiments between Europe and America. A dispatch from Tangier, Morocco, says the Berbers again have attacked Mekiues, a town thirty-five miles from Fez, with the result that Mohammed, brother of Sultan, Mnley Abdul-Aziz of Morocco, and pretender to his throne, has been released. Mohammed was imprisoned in Mckines. The White Star line has ordered another steamer of Harland & Wolff of Belfast, which is to be twenty feet longer and a few feet wider than the same company’s steamer Cedric, now the largest liner in the world. The Cedric is 700 feet long, has a capacity of 18,400 tens and accommodation for 3,000 passengers.