Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Chinese emperor sold 100 offices, in spite of his pledges to seek desirable men for positions of trust. The Empress of Germany was thrown from her horse while riding at Grunewald and her right fore arm was fractured. A dispnteh from Carupano, Venezuela, announces that Herr Meager, the German consul there, has accidentally killed himself. The British House of Lords has passed the prevention of corruption bill, which makes it a penal offense to offer or accept gifts or bribes with the view of influencing business. It is rumored in Danish parliamentary circles that the Danish commission which is now sitting in the West Indies, has sent home most pessimistic views regarding the economic future of the islands if they remain in the possession >f Denmark. Two companies of Macabebe scouts signally defeated the main body of San Miguel’s force near Manila. It is believed San Miguel was killed. Lieut. Reese was seriously wounded. The scoute lost three men killed and had eleven wounded. A serious engagement took place between the Dominican government troops and the revolutionary forces at Juan Calvo, near the town of Bajabon. The losses on the government side were twen-ty-seven killed and forty-three wounded, while the revolutionaries lost five killed and eleven wounded. Two Englishmen, Stair and Wilson, inveigled Kingston Smith, the American nrtist, into Geoffrey-Marie street, Paris, under the pretense of showing him a valuable painting. Confederates of the men gagged and bound Smith, and nfter robbing him of his jewelry and SOOO in cash made their escape. It is reported from Belgrade that one" of the bands formed by the Macedonian leader Sarafoff, consisting of forty men, lias been annihilated, twenty-nine of the insurgents being killed at Vladimirov and the remainder at Podareshe. At Itaslowzi, near Serres, thirteen revolutionary Macedonians have been killed by a Turkish force.