Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The German Emperor, in addressing the departing American generals, said that of all Americans he admires President Roosevelt, Seth Lbw and Ambassador White most. The London Evening News says a syndicate with a capital of $50,000,000 is being organized by the “coal Combine,” which proposes to purchase the Fife and Clyde companies’ mines. Twenty-five villages have been swept away and 6,000 persons have been rendered homeless by floods due to the overflowing of rivers in the southern part of the presidency of Bengal. M. Pelletan, French minister of marine, defied England and Germany in a speech at Bizerta, Tunis. Preparation was urged for “holy war” against country’s enemies. Italy was also offended by speech. Charlotte Matilda Pancoast, widow of Dr. William H. Pancoast of Philadelphia and daughter of the late James Robb, founder of the First National Bank of Louisiana, is dead in Paris from heart disease. She was a native of New Orleans.

The audience at one of the theaters at Malaga, Spain, was thrown into an uproar by a gendarme, who drew his revolver and fired indiscriminately. Seven persons were kitted outright and nine were injured. The gendarme was shot by the police, as be refused to surrender. A dispatch from Liverpool says J. Pierpont Morgan has purchased from J. R. Ellerman, chairman of the Leyland line of steamers, five steamers engaged in trade between Antwerp and Montreal. It is understood, the dispatch says, that the vessels acquired by Mr. Morgan will be managed by the Leyland line.