Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

W. K. Vanderbilt is confined to hie bed in a l’aris hotel suffering from injuries received in the explosion of his automobile. President Loubet of France is making an official visit in England. He was most enthusiastically welcomed at Dover and in Loudon. The Porte denies that Turkish troops are being concentrated along the Bulgarian frontier, but reports from Sofia confirm the earlier dispatches. In .the Colombian Senate vigorous objections to the Hay-Herran canal treaty were made because it does not bear the signature of President Maroquin. King Peter has appealed to the Czar and Emperor of Austria not to punish the murderers of lying Alexander as he intends to banish them on military pensions. The Irish international automobile race wag won by Jenatzy of German team, who drove 8(18 miles and 7(15 yards in 0 hours 3(1 minutes and 0 seconds; only two machines smashed; none killed; American cars too light. The regulation of the Treasury Department in regard to the admission of Chinese who are to exhibit at the St. Louis fair has raised a storm of protest, and many leading Chinamen declare that the empire will not be represented. The president of Bolivia has left Riverialta on his return to Bolivia, after having agreed with the commander-in-chief of the Brazilian forces in Acre on the place that Gen. Aroyas shall occupy .until the authorities have settled the Acre dispute. /