Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Plie Rev. William Farrar, dean of Westminster, author and former chaplain of Queen Victoria, djed in London, aged 72. The London police believe that Geoige Chapman, convicted of murder last Thursday, is the notorious “Jack the Ripper.” _ In a London interview “Buffalo Bill” admits that gold has been discovered on one of bis American properties and that he is a multimillionaire. San Domingo, the capital of the Republic of San Domingo, has been captured by the revolutionists after severe fighting, in which many were killed. The Madrid newspapers .again are talking of a marriage between King Alfonso XIII and Princess Louise Francoise, daughter of the Countess of Paris. The London home office officially announces that Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who in 1881) was convicted of poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, -will be released in IDOL The Dutch bark Amicitia, from New York with petroleum, burned at La Itoque. Several lives are .reported to have been lost on board the vessel, which had 700 barrels of oil on board. The town of Surigao, in the Island of Mindanao, has been captured by the ladrones, and troops have been hurried to the place. Constabulary Inspector < larke and several others were killed. The Venezuelan congress voted unanimously not to accept President Castro’s resignation. He declared retirement was planned to remove pretexts for hostility to present government or “connivance with foreigners.” Peace lias been signed between the t ruguayan government and the rebels. The government has sent complaint to Brazil against the invasion of Uruguayan territory by Brazil .forces in the Rio Grande province who joined Uruguayan rebels. The Peruvian government has granted to a local syndicate the concession for an electric overhead trolley railroad with double tracks between Lima and Callao, the principal seaport in Peru. Work on the railroad will be begun within six months and it is to be concluded in two years. The London Times' correspondent at Tangier says that the Sultan of Morocco is disbanding his irregular troops and lias announced officially that the rebellion is ended, but, adds the correspondent, the situation is inexplicable, as the pretender, Buhalara, has not been captured. The correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle at Geneva learns on reliable authority that the former Crown Princess of Saxony is lying seriously ill in her mother’s chateau at landau, on an island in Lake Constance, from the effects of an attempt to commit suicide by taking poison.