Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Calumet Club, composed of Americans, lias found quarters in Piccadilly, London. The Krupp family has stopped the libel suit begun against the socialistic paper Yorwaerts for articles printed about the late Herr Krupp. Employes in the government mint in Japan will be examined with X rays when their dny’s labor is over to see if -they have swallowed any coins. British and German fleet bombarded forts at Puerto Cnbello for forty-five minutes, silencing their guns. The town was not shelled nnd it is not known that anyone wat injured. Rt. Rev. Monslgnore Chase of St. Peter’s Church, Laredo, .Texas, will be appointed by Pope Leo to the archbishopric of ManilA or one of the vacant dioceses in the Philippines. Monsignore Chase is a convert. As Leopold, the King of the Belgians, was leaving the royal train at the station at Lnken two shots were fired at him, although neither took effect. It is not known whether the shots were fired by an assassin or by poachers. Advices from Bnrranquilla confirm the report of the total wreck of the steamer Bogota in the Magdalena river recently, near El Banco, Colombia. She had on board n large force of government soldiers, many of whom were drowned. The details of the disaster have been suppressed. Minister Powell has formally demanded of the Dominican government at San Domingo the withdrawal of the decree changing the port dues, and that, failing to comply with it, the Dominican government shall pny the Clyde line $300,000 due to that company, und rvbr.gnize certain other rights claimed by the United States Minister for the company.