Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — FROM FOREING LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREING LANDS.

Joseph Chamberlain, British colonial secretary, has decided to make a personal tour of investigation in South Africa to examine the problems presented by the new settlement of the country. The women of New South Wnl-’s have been granted the full franchise on exactly the same terms ns men. This is the third of the Australian States to confer this right, and it is expected that ) >Ctoria will soon follow. Since the Boer appeal to the world for assistance, a total of $318,890 has been received at Cnpe Town. Most of this sum has been spent on the war prisoners, but $27,975 lins been invested at 4 per cent for the widows and orphans. According to recent advices Turkish troops are being rushed forward to crush tin* growing Macedonian uprising. The rebels have threatened the railroad from Constantinople to Salonika, and were victorious near the River Strnuin. Fenring n repetition of the Boxer outrages of 1900, Rear Admiral Evans has sailed on the Helena for lehnng, to protect the missionaries in the province of Sze (’hunn. lehnng is situated 1,400 miles inland on the Yang-tae-Kinng river. A story is being persistently circulated in London parliamentary circles to the effect that Salisbury's resignation of the premiership wns the direct result of the King's refusal to approve certain of Salisbury's nominations for coronation honors. A peerage for W. W. Astor was among the honor* Edward declined to grunt. The consignment of unusual quantities of nrms and ammunition to Ireland has caused the chief constable of Birmingham to warn local manufacturers of the necessity of observing the peace preservation net, which forbids such consignment to any person without ii license. Tlie Grand Duke I’nul Alexandrovitch, uncle yf the Czar of Russia, has been dismissed from the Russian army, mid, It ia said, banished from the Court for ten yean. He will settle nt Cannes, France. His recent marriage to the Baroness I’istolkoff is said to be th* mo tiv* of the Usar'i action.