Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Crown Princess of Saxony and M. Giron have parted forever, and the royal romance is ended in a torrent of tears. *■ Tin* London Lancet publishes a solemn warning against the American “quick lunch” counter, which Is about to be introduced there. The historical. Hill of Tara waa sold

at auction in Dublin for $18,500. The purchaser was a woman whose name was not announced. Committee appointed in England to agitate as to food supply in case of European war reports that famine prices for bread would rule. General Uribe-Uribe, Colombian icvo lutiomiry leader, has committed suicide, and his act may have bearing on threatened revolution against Panama canal treaty. 1 ~ Louise, the former Crown Princess of Saxony, lias been placed in a sanitarium on the shores of Lake Geneva. It is reported that she is a mental wreck. M. Giron bus left her forever. Steamer Madiana, with over a hundred passengers aboard, struck a reef on the Bermuda coast and will lie a total Toss. Voyagers were landed at Hamilton after difficult rescue and hours of peril. During an engagement between insurgents under General Sail Miguel and the constabulary seven miles from Manila Inspector Harris and two of his men were killed. Tiie enemy left fifteen dead on the field. Maud Gonne. the Irish “Joan of Arc,” •will he received in the Catholic Church ut the private cam-wit of tile Carmelites at Laval, France, soon, as a preliminary ceremony to her marriage to Major John Mcßride, the leader of the Irish brigade in the Boer war. Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke,- quartermaster of the British army, testified before the war inquiry commission that 311),728 horses and 53.33!) mules and donkeys were lost in tiie Soiith African war, exclusive of 15.0(50, which were lost on the voyage to South Africa. A dispatch from Rome says reports have been received from Addis Abeba, Abyssinia,'that King Menelik lias broken off relations with M. Legarde, the resident French representative, and expelled him from the capital. M. Legarde is now quartered twenty miles from Addis Abeba. A dispatch from Tangier says the Moorish pretender, Bti Honiara, is a prisoner in the hands of,the ltiata tribesmen, who have offered to sell him to the Sultan. El N’enchhi, the Moorish Minister. of War, is~ now negotiating with the ltiata tribe and it is believed that the pretender will lie brought to Fez. The river Clyde burst its banks above Glasgow. Scotland, and inundated the industrial district of Rutherglen, whore a dozen extensive works were flooded to the depth of several feet. The damage done was very heavy. Elsewhere in Scotland traffic on tiie railroads lias been stopped, bridges swept away and houses have collapsed. Dr. F. W. Reitz, former president of the Orange River Free State, and other members of the Boer committee looking for homes in America for those 80-rs who are not willing to accept British rule in South Africa, have returned to New Orleans after a thorough examination of various tracts in Louisiana and Texas. They announce that they have selected a tract of 200,000 acres in Texas, but will not say as yet where it is.