Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Aceording to a dispatch received from Tangier, El Menetsiti, the Moorish war minister, has lost 0,000 men in a battle fought with the rebels at Amniedinna. The Turkish war minister has telegraphed to the military authorities in Salonien to prepare provisions for 50,000 troops. A similar dispatch has been sent to Adrianople. Advices from Guam announce the birth there of the first American child on the island. It is a girl aud its father is Paymaster Ryan. The christening was marked by a big celebration, in which the entire community joined. . British consular reports on the recent earthquakes in the vilayet of Vau confirm previous advices* that twenty-three villages were affected aud some destroyed. Seven hundred and eighty-five lives are known to have been lost. King Peter of Servia has been formally recognized by Russia, Italy and Austria, but latter's sovereign practically commands punishment of conspirators who killed King Alexander; there will be an outbreak if he is obeyed. News has been received in Chicago that the Czar of Russia, urged by a delegation of Jews, has relaxed the restrictions against the race prohibiting them from living in villages and within fifty miles of the frontier. Great rejoicing occasioned on receipt of tidings. The United States European squadron, Rear Admiral Cotton in comnjand, arrived at Kiel the other day. The fleet commanded by Admiral. Prince Henry of Prussia, consisting of eight battle ships nnd six cruisers, saluted the American vessels, aud the band of the German flagship played “America.” Twenty men were killed and thirteen injured by an explosion in the lyddite factory at the Woolwich arsenal in England. Several of the victims were literally blown to pieces. The buildiDg was wrecked, the roof was blown off and the interior collapsed. The explosion is attributed to the bursting of a shell. There were many pathetic scenes about the gates of the great arsenal, where thousands of relatives of employes besieged the officials for information.