Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Two thousand persons perished in an earthquake at the town of Melazgherd, in Asiatic Turkey. The Paris papers contain long stories of the remarkable case of a young woman living near St. Quentin,'France, who, after living in a trance for twenty years, awoke. From a most authentic anil semi-offi-cial source front Bogota, the capital, it has been learned that the Colombian congress is almost certain to reject the Panama canal treaty in its present form. Advices from Liberia announce that Arthur Barclay was recently elected president of that republic. He was formerly secretary-treasurer of this little independent nation on the west coast of Africa. Two Americans, William Stevens of New York and John Meyers of Chicago, have been expelled from Muehlhauscn, Thuringia, as Mormons. The expulsions occurred iu accordance with the decision to expel Mormon missionaries. The Peruvian elections were concluded peacefully. The result* so far as known indicate the election of Manuel Candanio as president and that Lino Alareo and Serapio Calderon are elected first and second vice presidents respectively. Lady Henry Somerset, president of the National British Women’s Temperance Association, and president of the World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union, has resigned from the former office and will, for the present at least, do no more work.