Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A severe earthquake is reported to have occurred at Enzelli, Province of Cbilan, Persia. Amid great enthusiasm King Tetor took the oath before tlie skupstchina at Belgrade. Sobsequently be held a review of the troops. Emperor William, speaking at a dinner at Kiel, said Germany and the United States are too closely knit by ties of blood to admit of antagonism. The United States cruiser Chicago’s sailing cutter and the San Francisco’s launch won in a competition with the boats of the German navy off Kiel. , Emperor William inspected the flagship Kearsarge at Kiel, and was impressed with the efficiency of the men and neatness of the big war vessel. In the wreck of the Bilbao train which overturned at Nejerilla River, Spain, according to official information, from thirty to one hundred persons were killed and sixty others seriously injured. The visit of the Russian war minister, Gen. Ivuropatkin, to Japan has had a satisfactory effect on the relations between Russia and Japan, according to the Japanese newspapers, and bus paved the way for a rapprochement. The famine in Kwang-Si, China, is growing worse, the starving population being estimated at 200,000. Deaths occur daily. The British authorities in Hongkong, aided by public subscription, have been sending aid for two months. The Irish land bill has passed the danger point. The concessions made by the government satisfied the nationalists, and amid cheers of all parties clause 3 of the bill was adopted by the English House of Commons just before midnight the other night. United States Minister Thompson at Betropolis, Brazil, reports to the State Department that the government has embarked upon a scheme for vast harbor works at Ilio de Janeiro, involving the building of two and a quarter males of stone dock. The cost of this great work will be $12,000,000, to be raised through a loan placed by the Rothschilds. A dispatch from Brussels say* the Congo mail has brought news of the murder of an American named Thornton and his native escort. Thornton was an employe of the Congo Free State. He- was ascending a tributary of the Arruwimi river, when his party was attacked by rebels, and after a fierce fight the American and all tlie members of his escort w£re killed.