Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The striking engineers of the Greenock district, Scotland, resolved to resume Work. The projected naval program of Japan proposes the expenditure of $5,150,000 a year for ten years. Ritsria announces that all Maucliuria is now open to foreign travel and passports are no longer, necessary. Mwanga, the former king of Uganda, is dead. Ilis death was caused by rupture of ail aneurism, or soft, pulsating tumor. A syndicate of American firm?, with a capital of $500,000, is erecting a factory at Osnabrueck, Prussia, tor the manufacture of photographic paper*. Telegrams from Liverpool say the displacement of the new twenty-five-knot Cunard line steamers will be 32,000 tons and it will have 63,000 horse power. France, Austria and Russia have warned the Sultan of Turkey that they will not tolerate stern measures against Bulgaria oil account of the Salonica outrages. In honor'of C. A. Conant, financial expert, the people of the Philippines have given the name of “Conants” to the new silver pesos that are being coined by the United Rtates. The Portuguese government Is negotiating with London financiers for a loan of £3.000,000. The money will be used mainly in the consolidation of the public debt of Portugal. New Cliwang, Manchuria, and Liao river forts have been reoccupied by Russians; heavy guns are brought by squadron and provisions orde'red; vigorous opposition by United States eeems likely. It is reported in Panama that the Panama Canal Company lias offered the Colombian government $12,000,000-of the $40,000,000 the company receives from the United States government for the property. Dispatches from Monastir state that Turkish soldiers and bashi bazouks have joined the Mussulman populace in the neighborhood and are killing Christians in cold blood. Houses are deserted and all shops are closed. The Italian b'arkentine Vera Cruz bound from Cape De Verde Islands to New Bedford, Mass., is stranded at Oeracoke Inlet, near Hatteras. More than •100 Portuguese immigrants have been landed by the Portsmouth life-saving crew. Captain Pershing’s column has defeated the Sultan of Ampnruguno’s strong force of Moros in the Taraca country, on the east shore of Lake Lanao, Island of Mindanao. The Americans captured ten forts. One hundred and fifteen Moros were killed.