Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

The German painter, Christian Alter, who was said to lie responsible for the charges against the late Herr Krupp, bus Is-en arrested. The continued decline in the value of silver is causing Chinese officials to talk of repudiating the payment of the war indemnity in gold. Martini law was proclaimed in Argentina to enable the government to deni with a general strike which threatened to paralyze business. King Edwnrd knighted several civilians for their services during the Boer war. Among them are a politician, an author and a railroad man. The Japanese government has offered a subsidy of 500,1X10 yen a year for more than four years for the location there of a modem glass plant like those in America. It was announced nt Pekin that Bussin had decided to establish a customs service in the province of Manchuria, the duties to Is'' paid over to Chinn, however. The Italian financial budget for 100102. including the cost of the China expedition, shows a surplus of 32.<XM),(XX) iires. The estimated surplus for 1!M)208 in 1,600,000 lires. China’s foreign trade for the past year amounted to about $315,000,000, an increase of >27,500,000 in imports and $17,700,000 in exports over 1806. Last year’s exports reached >125,000,000.