Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Baron Steck von Sternberg, the German ambassador to the United States has developed a cancerous growth on the cheek. The Canton and FalMian branch of the Canton 4 and Hankow Railway was opened in the presence of Chinese and foreign officials. According to an official statement the Bulgarians killed during the disturbances in European Turkey from April 15 to the present time total 15,000. Many new sayings of Jesus addressed to St, Thomas have been dug up by members of the Egypt Exploration Society near Cairo. The manuscripts show many variations from the accepted text. Colombia’s first expedition against the republic of Panama was abandoned the other day. The gunboat Bogota, loaded with soldiers, ran out of Buena Ventura, headed for the isthmus and went back again. A fire in the mail car of the St. Pe-tersburg-MosCow mail train in Russia is reported to hnve destroyed valuables estimated at $3,500,000. The postofflee authorities attribute the outbreak to spontaneous combustion. .. It is reported at Tien-tsin that Russian troops marching toward Shan-Hai-Kwan encountered a force of imperial Chinese troops and that fighting ensued, the Russians, it is asserted, pretending that the imperial force wns a band of Chinese robbers. The finance minister of Peru lias presented to Congress a project for a State monopoly of the sale of tobacco, in the meantime imposing an extra duty on raw foreign tobacco of $2 per quintal and $2.50 per quintal on manufactured tobacco from Jan. 1. The reoccupation of Mukden has so aroused China that the continued dispatch of Russian troops to the far East is now said to be directed against her. When the Japanese dispute was at its height 250,000 troops were ordered to the far East, and they are being sent Two men boarded a railway train as it was ascending a steep grade between Petersburg and Nylstroom, South Africa, overpowered the guard, looted the treasure car of $50,000, and made their escape. The moneys had been consigned to the Standard Bank at Pretoria.