Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Marie Henriette, Queen of the Belgians, died of heart disease at Spa, after a long illness. The Montreal express over the Grand Trunk Railroad killed at a crossing near West Pownal. Me., Abel Bowie, aged 71; his sister, Rebecca Bowie, aged 64, and Addie Bowie, his daughter, aged 37. The cable steamer Colonia has ItMid.ul the land end of the Pacific cable at Barnfield creek, near Victoria, B. C., and has started on her long trip to Fanning !■!- and, paying out the cable as she proceeds. A petition signed by 1,083 persons of various classes on the island of St. Croix has been sent to the Danish minister of

finance praying him to use his influence tb expedite the transfer of the Danish West Indies to the United States Edmund Jellinek, an official in the cashier’s department of the Lenderbank, disappeared from Vienna. It was discovered that he had defrauded the bank of $315,000 by falsifying checks. The money was spent by Jellinek in speculation. The discussion of Andrew Carnegie's offer of $150,000 to the borough of Marylebone for public libraries in that part of London has brought out some opposition to the idea, and the acceptance of ■ Mr. Carnegie’s gift has not yet been decided upon. The force commanded by Capt. John Pershing of the Fifteenth infantry, operating against the Moros in the Island of Mindanao, has met with slight resistance in the Macin country, and had captured seven forts, killed twenty-five, and wounded twenty Moros. Much interest has been aroused in India by the announcement that the crown prince of Germany, Frederick William, is likely to accompany the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, who are to represent King Edward and Queen Alexandra at the coronation durbar. A Bombay parsee, Nowrojee Manockjie Wadia, has announced His intention of devoting his fortune of nearly $5,000,000 to charity. He will give his property in trust for the benefit of persons in any country deprived of their means of subsistence by sudden calamities. A mew journal, the Rand Daily Mail, appeared in Johannesburg for the first time and announced that a loan of SIOO,000,000, irrespective of the war debt of $500,000,000, will be raised for public works and become an immediate charge on the revenues of Great Britain’s new South African colonies.

Officials at Port of Spain, Trinidad, have been told that the British government has raised the British flag on the Island of Patos, which is near Trinidad, notwithstanding the protest of the Venezuelan government. Sovereignty over the Island of Patos has been in dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela for a long time. In a dispatch from St. Petersburg a correspondent reports an attempt to derail the train upon which the Czar traveled from Kursk. Rails were removed on the two routes which bhe Czar might travel. In one instance the plot was discovered, and in the other a train was wrecked. The Czar reached St. Petersburg safely. The London Daily Mail says the government has decided that the new South African colonies are to be required to pay $500,000,000 toward the cost of the South African wa?. The colonies are, however, to be allowed ample time in which to make this payment. It will not be collected until the extension of trade and expansion of revenue permit. Consequently the loan will not be floated for two or three years. The Sydney flyer of the Intercolonial Railway, on board of which were Lieut, and Mrs. Peary on their way to New Y’ork, collided with a local train at New Glasgow, N. S. The engines of both trains were wrecked and one of the local cars •overturned. None of the passengers on the express was injured, but all were given a bad shaking up. Lieut. Peary and his wife were able to proceed after two hours’ delay. Thomns Law of the milling firm of Alexander & Law Brothers and Miss Sherwin, a social favorite, shot two prairie chickens on the farm of L. Rowe, twelve miles from Brandon, Manitoba. This so enraged Rowe that he fired twice at the hunters, shooting Miss Sherwin in the stomach and Law in the knee. Rowe ran home and swallowed the contents of a bottle of gopher poison, dying in a few minutes.