Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1902 — FROM FOREIGG LANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGG LANDS

An exact census recently completed in the Chinese empire gives the population of that country as 420,000,000. Gen. Jesse M. Lee reports from the Philippines that the ladroncs are again on the warpath in tlie province of Leyte. At the engine trial of the British armored cruiser Drake a speed of 24.10 knots Mas developed, proving her to Ik* the fastest war vessel in the world. Returns from tlie recent elections iu Japan indicate that for the first time Marquis Ito, leader of tlie friends of tlie constitution, has a majority in the lower house of the Legislature. The recent elections in Copenhagen resulted in the defeat of the old Conservative majority which hindered the ratification of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The sale is now assured. American naval forces have continued to police the railroad across tlie Isthmus of Panama, threatened by Gen. llerrara’s victorious revolutionary army, while Colombia is making strenuous efforts to re-enforce Gen. Soiaznr. Five hundred Porto Ricans, who emigrated to Hilo, Hawaii, in 1901, have sent an appeal to Ban Juan asking relief from cruelties of Hawaiian sugar planters. Overseers are accused of whipping them and sending them to prison w hen ill. After Inspecting the Canndian-Atuori-rnn frontier on behalf of the British war office. Col. Ferrers Townsliend report'd that the British fortifications are inefficient, while the American forts are well equipped. Tlie iKNldon Express stales tlint there is hut one cartridge and shell factory in the dominion, nnd that in case of war between Great Britain and tlie United States the Yunkees could easily march over the border and seize Canada. The French ministry lias just published n statement showing that French investments in Russia are nearly n billion and a half mid In Spain over half a billion. out of a total foreign Investment of six billions. This constitutes n powerful tic between France, Spain and Russia. I’ixley Ka Isakn Heme, a royal Zulu, from the Natal, South Africa, has entered Columbia University, New York,. for a seven years’ course, four in the regular college course and three in the medical school, after which he will return to Africa prepared to educate and uplift bis people.