Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Lord Salisbury, former British premier, died at Hatfield House, England. Investigation shows that the supposed case of cholera upon the transport Sherman at Manila was merely an attack of severe cramps. Three Bulgarian villages near Tcherkeskoi, vilayet of Adrianople, are reported to have been attacked by Circassians and their inhabitants massacred. The wedding of Mias Gsace Greenway Brown of Baltimore to Honore Palmer of Chicago took place in London, about a score of friends being present It ia reported in London that a British column of thirty whites and 500 natives defeated a superior force of rebellious natives at Burini, Nigeria, and killed 700. Hundreds of Bulgarians were slain by Turks in the destruction of three villages. Fighting is in progress at fifteen places in the villayet of Adrianople. Massacre by Turks is reported. The French steamer Amira) Gueydon, 3,013 tons, which sailed from Marseilles July 15 for Colombo, has not since been rejjorted and lias been given up for lost. There were fifty-seven persons on board the vessel. The fisherman’s ring belonging to the late Pope Leo, which was supposed to have been lost on the day of his death, lias been found on his writing table. Cardinal Oregiia examined the ring and, according to custom, has broken it up. "v. M. and Mme. Humbert were sentenced in Paris to five years’ solitary confinement each. The woman in court asserted that “Crawford” and his millions exist and gives the man’s real name as Regnier, a notorious figure in the war of 18T0. Congress has formally proclaimed the election of President Candemo and Second Vice-President Caldoron, says a dispatch from Lima, Peru. A uew election for first vice-president has been ordered, Senor Alarco, cho.-en for that office, having died. What is believed to have been a plot for the assassination of King Alfonso has; been broken up at Huesca, Spain. Two bombs were found ill a box at the station at that place addressed to a well-known anarchist. King Alfonso is about to make a visit to Huesca, and it is believed the bombs were intended for an attempt to kiil the sovereign. A schooner reports that the Cayman islands were devastated by a hurricane. Many houses at Georgetown, a village near the west end of Grand Cayman Island, were demolished. The vessels in the harbor were driven out to sea. Two subrequently returned, but the others have not been heard of. All the trees and crops were destroyed and a famine is imminent.