Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Gen. Reyes, in behalf of Colombia, demands that former conditions on the isthmus be restored and his country allowed to put down the rebellion alone. Howard Smith of Bolivar was killed and his daughter fatally injured by a Canton and New Philadelphia iuterurban car near Strasburg. They were driving across the track. Russia is watching keenly the unusual war preparation being made by China. Belief is spreading that hostilities in the Orient may embroil not only Great Britain, but France also. Repetition of the massacre of Jews in Kiscliiueff, it is feared, will take place on the Russian Christmas day, Jan. 7. Incendiary leaflets and post cards are being circulated aud the governor offers little hope. Ladrones recently looted the municipal treasury at Bosoboso, in Luzon, I*. I. They captured the presldente and cut the tendons of his heels. The constabulary pursued the hand and recovered part of the stolen funds. Twelve persons have been killed at the village of Resina, near Genoa, Italy, by an explosion of dyunmite while they were preparing bombs to fire off in a celebration. The police forbade the use of dynamite, hut the villagers had eluded their vigilance. The two and a half ton yacht Iviaroa, which the owner, named Buckridge, attempted to sail from New Zealand jto London by way of Cape Horn, returned to New Zealand with the body of the owner aboard, he having been kilted by a fall from the mast while 1,000 miles from land.