Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Lisbon was shaken the other night by a violent earthquake. Twenty men were killed by the explosion of an English boiler in the Santa Rita cotton factory in Canete, Peru. The factory was insured in native companies. The coronation of Pope Pius X. drew an immense throng to St. Peter’s in Rome, a similar splendid spectacle not having been witnessed in fifty-seven years. Fire and panic on underground electric railway in Paris caused the death of probably 100 persons and injury to dozens. Eighty-two bodies were taken out within a few hours. The strike riots at Cracow, Austrian Poland, have resulted according to a Cracow newspaper, in sixty deaths since Aug. 5 thrqugh contlicts between the strikers and the troops. Russia demands that Turkey punish the murderer of consul nt Monastir and all military or civil officials in any way responsible for the crime. Macedonian committee has appealed to powers to intervene. A special messenger from Monastir reports that the Bulgarian insurgents have dynamited the konak (governor’s palace), in the town of Krushevo, twenty-three miles north of Monastir. Fifty Turks were killed. An engagement Bear Sorovitch between Turkish troops and Macedonian insurgents closely resembled a battle. Four battalions of Turkish soldiers, supported by several batteries of artillery, attacked 1,700 insurgents, most of whom were Bulgarians and well armed. The Bulgarians, although outnumbered nearly four to one, fought desperately and were only defeated after many had been killed and wounded on both sides.