Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Miss Lethioro, an actress who has been prominent in the London theaters' for many years, is defid. Six hundred persons attended a banquet in Berlin at which horse flesh was the principal article on the bill of fare. Goubet, the Parisian inventor of submarine torpedo boats, has developed insanity and has been placed in an asylum. Six thousand Filipinos paraded at Manila and petitioned Governor Taft to remain. He declared that the appointment to the Federal Supreme bench already has been refused, but that he How believes acceptance best. Andrew Carnegie has signalized his acceptance of the vice-presidency of the Iron and Steel Institute of London by establishing seven student scholarships of an annual value of SSOO each for the furtherance of metallurgical research. The Tangier correspondent of the London Morning Leader reports serious fighting outside of Fez. He says the Sultan has been defeated and that he escaped to tin* westward. War Minister Menebbi, one of the Sultan's strongest pillars, was killed. Private telegrams from Macedonia say alarming reports of new atrocities are being circulated daily, and that people are fleeing from the country in inert nsing numbers. Michailowsky. president of the Sofia branch of the Macedonian committee, has announced his determination to resign. <’. E. Borchgrevink. the antarctic explorer, in a lecture at Copenhagen announced that he had received an offer from America to conduct an antarctic expedition. He added that he was willing to accept it. He lielieved that exploration of the huge continent around the south pole was one of the most important problems of the century. King Alfonso had a narrow escape from being shot by q man named Feitc, who attempted to assassinate the Duke Sotomayor, grand chamberlain, while the latter was accompanying the King from services at church. The would-be assassin was overpowered by the royal guards and is being held for an investigation. Ho denies that he is an anarchist and disclaims any deside to kill the King.