Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

At the Marlborough Club in Liverpool one of the King’s household cavalry de dared that another operation on his majesty is contemplated. Paul .Blouct (“Max O’Rell”). French lecturer and Writer, died at Paris. He never recovered from an operation in New York for appendicitis. It is reported that Queen Draga of Servia has consented to a divorce from King Alexander. She is to retire to a con vent, which will be named after her. The policy of the Russian government is to drive Jews to other lands. Editor who incited Kischineff massacres gives them one year in which to change religion or get out. The British government will call a conference of the signatories of the Berlin net,•with the view of abating the outrages committed by the government of the Congo Free State. Croats are iu revolt against Hungarian government, and city of Agram under martial law; 2,000 persons imprisoned after fights between peasants and troops; hatred between Slavs and Magyars chiefly responsible. The Paris-Madrid automobile race resulted in eight deaths within 343 miles, and the contest was declared off on Premier Combes’ and Spanish government’s orders. Marcel Renault, winner of the Paris-Vienna contest, was fatally hurt. The Sofia correspondent of the London Morning Leader telegraphs that the Macedonian committee reports that the Turks have burned the village of Banitzi, near Seres. Only forty-eight of the 500 inhabitants escaped. Many women and girls were outraged and murdered and their bodies cast into the water.