Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Part of the Navy Department building was destroyed by fire at Buenos Ayres. The loss is estimated at about SBOO,OOO. Former German Ambassador von Hollebeu is reported charged with usiug his office to advertise a brand of wine by securing its use at the christening of the Kaiser’s yacht Meteor. It is reported from Fez that the Sultan’s troops have suffered a repulse with great slaughter at the hands of the Hiaina Knblye tribe, which is friendly to the pretender, Bu Hainara. Official Russian reports represent that a serious deficiency in winter grain is highly probable in most of European Russia, crops beiug almost entirely destroyed in sixteen provinces and poor in others. Russian newspapers claim that a man in the hospital at Tomsk is 200 jears (Jd. They say this statement is supported by documents. The man has been a widower for 123 years. He is bedridden, but mentally sound. The Dominion Line steamer Vancouver, for Boston from Mediterranean ports, was run down and badly injured by the Spanish steamer Ixia, while leaving Ponta Del Gorda, principal port of the Azores. The extent of the damage is not stated. One hundred ladroncs attacked the town of Nanjan, island of Mindora, P. I. Constabulary repulsed them after a scattering fight of several hours, during which one ladrone was killed and one wounded. Twenty women and children in the town were injured. A carter’s wife named Engels, in Kardorf, Germany, has just given birth to her thirtieth child. All are alive except five. The eldest is 35. It is the biggest family in Germany, and Engels has had to enlarge his house throe times. He is 65 years old and his wife is 55.