Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Circumstantial reports have been received that Boris Harafoff, the Macedonian leader, was killed in a skirmish at Pruva, near Fiorina. The schooner Tlione, with a cargo of codfish, from Fogo for Oporto, was sunk off the Grand Banks in a gale. One man of the new was swept overboard and lost. Russia bids China to choose between accepting her demauds or seeing the CzaFs troops permanently occupy Manchuria. The prospects of peace in the far East are considered more hopeful. A dispatch from Odessa says news has reached there from Khorassan that 250 lives have been lost in an earthquake at Turshiz, Persia. , Thirteen villages Mere destroyed and 5,000 persons are now homeless China has signed a treaty giving Russia a monopoly of Manchurian trade and mining rights, thereby violating the agreement with America to open certain ports to the commerce of tlie world. Manchuria is also made practically a Russian possession. Russians in the far East are savage at America for concluding her recent treaty xvith China, and declare the St. Petersburg government will never allow Mukden to be opened ns a treaty port. Russian monopoly rights are said to be infringed by tl|e agreement.