Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Famine Threatens Jerusalem. [ARTICLE]

Famine Threatens Jerusalem.

"Death and famine threaten the Holy City," says the Jerusalem correspondent of the Standard in a communication, "on account of the scanty water supply, due to the Insufficient rains of last winter. The Sultan has granted permission to the municipality to bring water from the pools of Solomon through iron pipes Into the city along the line of Solomon’s stone aqueduct. The new works were begun today on telegraphic orders from the Sultan. They will be finished in two months."