Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — FROM FOR EIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOR EIGN LANDS.

The 18,000 persons in the Boer camps In November have been reduced to 7,600. The Czar granted amnesty to fiftyeight students banished to Siberia for rioting at the festival of St. Nicholas. It was officially announced In St. Petersburg that Russia and Austria had agreed to maintain the status quo In Macedonia and the Balkans. The United States minister to Corea has demanded of that government the payment of $1,($0,000 due to the builders of the electm railway. The British consul at Ilan-kow, China, reports that Tung-Fuh-Siang, the Chinese rebel, with 10,000 warriors, is dominating the provinces of Ivan Su and Shen-Sl, and that serious trouble is expected. Tho Sultan of Turkey has absolutely prohibited football, baseball, polo, etc., in Constantinople. The Sultan is said to fear that the crowd of spectators may become a mob and the mob a revolutionary army. King Leopold has concluded negotiaaons with China for the cession of a eca of territory similar to the other Buropenn settlements. Belgium has accepted this arrangement as a compensation for claims arising from the Boxer outbreak. Advices from central provinces of Russia givo harrowing accounts of starvation among the peasants. Men too poor to buy food sell their wives and children at auction. Bark of trees, roots, herbs and the flesh of diseased animtiU are used a* foods. Advices from Bolivia announce th* defeat of th* revolutionists at Bahia and Nazareth, on Acre river, and the consequent frustration of the Insurgents' plan to establish an independent republic of the territory comprised in the AngloAmerican syndicate’s concession. Premier Zarnardelll of Italy has approved a plan to spend $200,000 n year on the education of Neapolitans anil Sicilians Intending to emigrate to the United States In order to prevent their rejection by tho American authorities. A bill lutroduced In the Belgian Senate by the government aimlug to raise the levol of public morality by Increased stringency in dealing with Improper or obscene public utterances has absorbed the attention of all parties. They agree as to Its worth, but find difficulty In de« fining the classes of discourse which lerould come under the provision.