Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Mrs. Horace Porter, wife of the American ambassador at Paris, died suddenly of congestion. One thousand men are reported to have been killed or wounded in a battle between Bulgarians and Turkish troops iu the Okhreidn district. '£■ Kloshowski, alias Chapman, the Southwark, England, saloonkeeper who murdered with poisou three women who lived with him as his wives in different parts of London, was hanged in Wandsworth jail. Official advices from Monastir says the Bulgarian inhabitants of thirty villages in the Okhrida district, numbering 3,000 men and supported by the bishop and a number of revolutionary bands, have risen against tiie Turks. Holland is threatened with famine because of the railroad strike. Food shipments by land and water are practically stopped, and sympathetic walkout of bakers ordered. Shipowners have declared a general lockout. It has been discovered that several pictures in the royal apartments at Windsor Castle, London, have been • slashed with a knife. The authorities, while not denying tile fact, refuse to give any information on the subject. Three dynamite bombs were exploded at the Villabijan Church in Madrid. Considerable damage was done, but no < ne was injured. Slight student disturbances continue at Saragossa, where the prefecture and Jesuit college were stoned. Two Moro sultans, one being the datto of North Lanao. P. 1., recently requested that they be furnished with American flags. They were supplied by the military authorities, and the Moros arc now floating them over their settlements. Consul General McWade at Canton, Chinn, cables the State Department in Washington that the famine is increasing in the Kwang-Si province; that starving parents are selling their children for small sums of money in ‘order that they may buy food.