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

FOREIGN.

The Cuban Senate has authorized an Increase in import duties on boots and shoes, coal, lumber and provisions. Manila reports have indicated a renewal of attacks on American outpogtn in Mindanao by the unsubdued Moros. The British Medical Journal states that no.second operation Is to be perforated on King Edward and that his recovery is complete. In a sanguinary battle near Uskub, European Turkey, between Turkish Infantry and Bulgarian Macedonian revolt*tionists, the latter were cut to pieces. The Spanish people have been much alarmed by the recent eccentricities of their young King. Reports sgy hs is whimsical, irritable and dissipated. It is feared that his mind is unbalanced. Alarmed at the number of Germans who go to foreign countries and renounce their allegiance to the mother country, citizens of Baden recently appealed to the German people to support a national school, the aim of which is to be “the infusion of German character and rfvilIzatiotn, no that the same will remain uninfluenced by the habits and customs existing In other countries in which these young men may locate.” Col. Gerald C. Kit son, who made a study of West Point Academy while military attache to the British embassy in the United States, has been appointed governor and commandant of the Sandhurst Military College in England. The State Department has received from Berlin a summary of recent statistics of the economic and Industrial conditions of Germany. In 1900 the total population was 55,587,000; total emigration, 22,809; 1,071 strikes last year, of which 200 were successful; Increase in coal and iron production, decrease in beet, increase in Imports and exports.