Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Prince Peter Karageorgeviteh was unanimously elected King of Servia at a joint session of the senate and Skupshtina. Prinee Peter was informed of the election at Geneva and he at once telegraphed his acceptance. It is reported that the village of Enidge, in the district of Adrianople, Consisting of 500 houses, was attacked by basbi bazouks and the entire population, with the exception of 200 men, massacred. The village was pillaged and the loot carried off to neighboring Turkish villages. King Alexander of Servia and Queen Draga were assassinated at midnight in the royal palace at Belgrade by emissaries of the Servian army, and Prince Karageorgeviteh was proclaimed king.*' With the king and queen were murdered the premier, cabinet ministers and other officials.

Three men, three boys and a woman were killed and a number of persons injured as tbe result of a fire at a whisky distillery in Glasgow, Scotland. Thousands of casks of spirits exploded, blowing down a wall of an adjoining flour mill. The victims were buried beneath the debris. In Geneva, Switzerland, at the convention of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Uniqn Lpdy Henry Somerset was re-electbd president of the organization and Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Portland, Me., was re-elected vicepresident at large. Mrs. C)ara Parrish Wright of Paris, 111., was elected supertendeut of the young woman’s branch. The terms of the American commercial treaty with China have been fettled except the clause providing for the opening of two Manchurian ports. The treaty abolishes all interior trade barriers in the shape of internal taxation of goods in transit in China or Manchuria except the duties collected by the native custom honses at the treaty ports under foreign customs management.