Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Job n Oliver, an English ironmaster, drew $1,000,000 in the State lottery at Madrid, Spain, and distributed it among his employes. Viceroy Curzon, with a brilliant pageant, opened the durbar at Delhi to celebrate the accession to the throne of King Edward VII. Fire in a coal mine at Bachmnt, Ekutorinoslav province, Russia, imprisoned 1(H) miners. Twenty have been rescued, but it is feared the others are dead. Andijan, in Russian Turkestan, Las been again shaken by ail earthquake. The number of victims now readies 4,800. Shocks have occurred at Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Bagneret-de-Lu-clion, France. The allied powers have practically agreed to accept The Hague tribunal for arbitration of the Venezuelan dispute. Details of arrangement are not crude public. Negotiations on that line, nnd for cessation of hostilities are still in progress. * \ Germany demands $340,000 cash payment from President Castro before consenting to arbitration; announcement is likely to delay' settlement indefinitely. The French Parliament will discuss alleged disregard of Hague peace treaty by allies. News wns brought by the steamer Tartar of a disaster in tile Malacca straits, ns a result of which sixty lives were lost. The steamer Bunsang was in collision with the steamer Kinngynn in the straits nnd the Kinngynn was sunk, sixty sailors nnd passengers being missing.