Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

B. L. Farjepn, the novelist, died suddenly- at his residence in London, The treaty negotiated with Denmark for purchase of West Indian Islands has expired by limitation. Turkish cruiser Medjidia, first warship ever built-at Cramps’ lor Ottoman Empire, was launched. Judge John G. Long, American consul general at Cairo, died at Dunbar, Scotland, after an accidental fall. The historic fisherman's ring, the emblem of papal authority, is said to have disappeared from the Vatican. Japan decides to adopt the policy of Great Britain of waiting and watching Russia’s actions in Manchuria. It is announced that the Duke of Marlborough has been appointed under secretary of state for the British colonies. Benjamin L. Farjeon, the noted novelist and son-in-law of Joseph Jefferson, died at Hampstead, England. Thursday. The new battleship King Edward VII., tlie largest in the world, was successfully launched by the Princess of Wales at Devonport. King Edward and Queen Alexandra were given an enthn-iastic reception at Belfast; city was elaborately decorated and thronged with sightseers. In the capture of Ciudad Bolivar by the Venezuelan forces over 1,500 men wore killed or wounded on both sides. The capture was due to treachery. Investigation of the Cayagan group of islands off the coast of Borneo shows they do not belong to Great Britain, and the United States was justified in seizing them. Lord Cranborne, British foreign undcrleeretary, iu a speech in the House of Commons, alluded to the Czar as a despot and criticizes France for passing law of associations. Thirty women took refuge in a bam near Schalajika, in the* district Don, Russia, to escape from a gang of men, and were burned to deat.ih, their pursuers setting tire to the barn. A terrific cyclone has passed through the district of Tcliernigof, Russia. Three villages were destroyed in a few minutes. Churches and houses were lifted bodily and carried a long distance. The loss of life was great. Body of Pope Leo was interred in basilica of St. Peter’s with impressive ceremonies iu presence of church dignitaries and Roman aristocracy. It is estimated that. 80,000 persons viewed the body as it lay in state.