Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Alfred Moeely of London, known as a writer on economic subjects, has entered his two sons as freshmen In Yale University in preference to sending them to Oxford or Cambridge. Gov. Taft has decided to build a canal from Lake Taal, Luzon, to the sea at the expense of $200,000 out of the congressional relief fund. This will give Batangas province an outlet for its products. The Turkish government has ordered the immediate mobilisation of sixty-four battalions of the army reserve, half the force to report at Salonica and the remainder to operate with Andrianople as the base. Advices have been received from Bogota to the effect that Congress has passed a law authorizing the President to conclude a canal treaty with the United States on a certain basis, without .the approval of Congress. J. B. Greenhut, who has just returned from an investigation of the atrocities at Kischincff, says the massacre was deliberately planned by the Russian government in order to discourage socialist agitation and the movement for a constitutional government British correspondent at Beirut says the pressure of American warships alone prevented a massacre. Six , hundred Turks have been slain in battle at Kostendi, near Sofia, and many others, died at Kresna Pass. Fresh warnings have been given by the powers to Turkey and Bulgaria. The Gazette of the British island of St. Kitts says: “The moment for the helping hand of the government to be extended cannot be much longer delayed if the laboring population of the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis are to be kept from starvation. An appalling condition of poverty exists.”