Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

In an interview in Honolulu Gov. Dole stated that he would not resign his office, but would retire at the end of his term, which expires in May next. Gov. Dole is anxious to resume the practice of law. Bulgaria has appealed to the powers to prevent the devastation of the country by Turkey, plainly stating that unless the atrocities are stopped, the nation will be forced to adopt stern defensive measures. A dispatch to the Berlin Tageblatt from Constantinople reports that the Russian monastery at Jerusalem has been sacked by a Mohammedan mob and that all of the monks there were murdered. A special dispatch from the Bulgarian frontier reports that another Servian military plot has been discovered at Kraguyevats, fifty-nine miles from Belgrade. Several officers have been arrested. The British foreign office is said to have made representations at Washington anent the recent seizure of two or three islands off the northeast coast of British North Borneo by the United States gunboat Quiros. The schooner Fielding rescued seven men and one woman from tlie bottom of an overturned ship near Port an Prince, after they had clung to the slippery bottom for four days. Nine of theiT companions were drowned. The Colombian Senate has approved the bill authorizing tlie government to negotiate a new Panama canal treaty witli the United States on its first reading. Senator Perez y Soto announces that he will oppose it in the subsequent debates. It lias been decided that the portrait of tlie Empress Dowager of China, being painted by Miss Kate Augusta Carl, an American artist, shall be exhibited at the St. Louis exposition. It is contrary to Chiueoe traditions to have likenesses of the semi-sacred rulers made. Customs ’lnspector Thomas P. Coates and Lieut. Osborne, constabulary supply officer, both stationed at San Ferdino, P. 1., who were arrested recently on a charge of misappropriating government funds, have been tried and convicted of the crime at Manila. Lieut. Osborne has been sentenced to ten years and Inspector Coates to eight years’ imprisonment. Dean Tompkins, treasurer of the province of La Union, has also been convicted of forgery, but sentence has been reserved. The minimum .penalty for the crime is imprisonment for twelve years.