Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Thousands of natives of Herschel Island and along tlie arctic coast are dying from measles. Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitcb, uncle of the Czar, has been dismissed from the Russian army. St. Petersburg advices report cholera is decreasing in tlie Amur districts and in all other infected districts. The statue of Joint Bright, which has just been placed in the English House of Commons, is the gift of Andrew Carnegie. The Japanese cabinet has. adopted the proposed scheme for naval expansion. It involves an annual expenditure of SB,250,000 for ten years. The Spanish steamer Enero was tun down and sunk by the British steamer St. Regulus off Dungeness and twentytwo of the crew were drowned. Several former Boer commandants and Britisli officers have offered their services and those of 1,000 men, half of whom are British and Itnlf Boer soldiers, for service in Comaliland. China hns yielded to England and will punish ail concerned in the murder of the missionaries, Bruce and Lewis. Tlie cap-, tain of the native troops who refused to protect the Englishmen is to be behended. The town of St. Pierre, Miquelon, has been devastated by lire, which swept the main part of the town. It has not been learned how the fire originated. The financial loss will probably reach $500,000. The Berlin Tageblatt prints a dispatch from St. Petersburg saying that Finance Minister Witte during his far cas.ern inspection trip dismissed for irregularities 200 officials employed under the finance ministry. The auxiliary screw steamer Scotia has left the Clyde for the antarctic regions with members of the Scottisli National Antarctic Association on board under the leadership of Wiiliam S. Bruce of Edinburgh. The volcano Kilauea is again showing signs of activity. Reports received from the Island of Hawaii were to the effect that there were four fountains of lava in the pit of Halmeatunauti, and many people hurried to the scene. \V. Iv. Vanderbilt of New York was condemned by default to two days’ imprisonment and the payment of a fine of 10 francs for speeding liis automobile in Paris recently. He will have to appeal to the Supreme Court to have his sentence remitted or submit to arrest when he returns to France.