Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The minister of the treasury at Bogota has announced at a secret session of the House of Representatives that the national revenues are 30,000,000 pesos in paper currency less than the expenses. News has been received in Manila that a band of ladrones surprised the town of Iriga, In the province of Ambos Camarinea, Luzon, and killed the wife and an uncle of the presidente and three volunteers. A communication from United States Minister Beaupre at Bogota indicates that the present session of the Colombian congress is not expected to make any further progress with the canal legislation. Emperor William sank to his hips in a bog during his receut deer-stalking at Rominten. The foresters in attendance pulled him out of the mire and he continued to hunt without changing his clothes till evening. After nearly three months of detective work the thief who stole SII,OOO worth of jewels from Mrs. Samuel Parker at Honolulu baa been identified in Benjamin Gallagher, a coachman in the employ of the Parkers. All of the stoleu jewels save one have been recovered. Official information from both Tokio and St. Petersburg is to the effect that drafts of the Russo-Japanese convention have been approved by the Czar and Count Lamsdorff, the Russian foreign minister. Only alight alterations in these drafts are needed to effect a settlement of all difficulties by amicable compromise.