Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

During his visit to the Kaiser, the Czar was informed for the first time of the true details of the Ivishineff massacre. Na Tunk, formerly a boxer, lias been appointed superintendent of the board of foreign affairs in China to succeed Wang Wen Sliao. Emperor William will send his yacht Meteor TB t\ie United States iu the spring to take part in the ocean yacht race for the Emperor’s cup. Sudden news that Emperor William of Germany has been operated on for a polypus in the throat caused the greatest excitement in European capitals. The German Consul at Cape Town telegraphs that the Bondelzwafts tribesmen have invaded Cape Colony and have had an encounter with the Cape police. A serious combat has taken place on the Brazilian frontier between Uruguayan police and Brazilians. Several persons were killed and a number wounded. After a search lasting almost two years the wreck of the British worship Condor, which was lost with 114 men on board, has been found sunk in Barkley Sound. Minister of Finance Rosano committed suicide in Naples. Italy, by shooting. Since the formation of the new cabinet the Socialists had charged him with ruption. During a meeting of a scientific society iu the Athenaeum at Mula, in the province of Murcia, Spain, the building collapsed, killing seven and injuring twenty, some fatally. H. E. Huntington and E. H. Harriman are interested with Edwin Hawley, T. F. Oakes, Frederick Eldridge and other New Vork men in a syndicate to secure important railway concessions in China. A dispatch from Vienna says a rumor is ciinent there that the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany have signed a convention for a defensive alliance in the far East should Great Britain support Japan. The volcano of Malaspina, in Negros, Philippines, is inn state of violent eruption. Malaspina is the loftiest summit of the central mountain chain of the Island of Negros, being 8,192 feet high. It has never been entirely quiescent. Some time ago Gen. Davis, commanding the division of the Philippines, recommended a reduction of the garrison in those islands and the Secretary of War authorized the chief of staff to determine what reduction should be made. Lieut Gen. Young has decided that the garrison iu the Philippines for the present should remain at four regiments of cavalry and nine of infantry.