Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Henry Seton Merriman (Hugh Stowcll Scott), the English novelist, is dead. He had been suffering from appendicitis for a week. The story comes from Skiernewice that the Czar’s niece died from poison and that an attempt was made to poison the whole Russian royal family. The visit of King Victor and Queen Helena of Italy to England ended with a banquet at Windsor Castle to eighty-’ six guests; friendship with England is believed strengthened. Troops under Gen. Leonard Wood have slain 300 Moros and wounded many others in a battle lasting five days, the Americans having been led into an ambush by treacherous natives. In Madrid an unknown man fired three times with a revolver at Senor Briestn, one of King Alfonso’s tutors. The tutor was slightly wounded. The attempt on the tutor’s life Is believed to have been the outcome of a private quarrel. A telegram has been received from the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, saying that, according to reports received at Madras, a flood in the Pnlar river destroyed half of the town of Vanizambadl, in the Salem district. Two hundred persons were drowned. Guieseppe Fratelif, head of the Mafia in Mexico, who was exiled from Italy and has participated in plots against many crowned heads in Europe, has left for England. The London authorities were warned of a plot against the life of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. Princess Alice, wife of Prince Frederick of Schoenberg-Waldenburg, has eloped with her eoachnvan. News of the elopement has just become public, although it occurred two weeks ago. The police are in pursuit, but have not learned the whereabouts of the couple. King Edward for the second time in his brief reign has been robbed by a clerk in the office of the paymaster of the household. On this occasion checks amounting to $2,500 were illegally drawn and cashed by Frank Lanham, who confessed and was committed for trial. The Lebaudy air ship, on descending at Meudon, France, struck a tree and blew up. The whole air ship was destroyed, but the occupants, a pilot and an engineer, were uninjured. M. Lebaudy was not on board. The air ship was the one that made the recent‘remarkable flight from Moisson to Paris. The Sultan of Turkey has a cancer on iiis intestines, but is in no immediate danger and can drag on a painful existence for two or three years. His aggravated condition recently brought on by extra exertions, caused him to call in a Munich doctor, who advised him to have an operation performed, but he refused.