Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

The LS.OOO persons in .the Boer camps lu November have been reiluced to 7,600. ?The 'Czar granted amnesty to' fiftv-' eight students bauished to Sibori.v. fori rioting nt the festival of St. Niehoins. Tt was officially announced in .St. Petersburg thnt Russia mid Austria had agreed to maintain the status quo in Macedonia and the' Balkans, The United Staten- minister to Corea has demanded of that government the payment of $1,590,000 tq the builders of the elecM’ic railway. ‘ \ The British consul at Han-kow, China, reports that Tung-Fuh-Siang, the'Chinese rebel, with 10,000 warriors. Is dominating the provinces of Kan Su'Jind Shen-Si, and that serioqs trouble is exz puctcd. The Sultan of Turkey lias absolutely prohibited football, baseball, is.lo, ate.. In Con'sthntiiioplV. The Sultan is said to fear that the crowd of spectators may become a mob ami the mob n revolutionary unuy.

King Loopul<| han- couclufie4 negotiations with China for the -cession .of a piece of tortfltory simHnf tn the other European aettl&uients. Belgium has accepted this arrangement aa a couipeiiHation for <4ainn» arming- from the Boxer outbreak/ J n, n •’ \ * Advice* from central i<ovincea qf Russia girt* harrowing' nccrhints 6f .start htion among, the peaqajifs. Meu ioo p.»or Ro buy food sell their wives and children at auction. Dark of 1 trees, roots, herbs and .the flesh of diseust'd animal* are' ‘used as. food*. . . 4 . Aifvtees from B/>hvin annouhcc the v defeat if the revolutionists nt Buhiannd< jNnzsreth. on Acrp river, nnd tliq.coiuioiptant frustration -of the insurgents' plan 'to eatabliah an independeift republic of: 'the feri'itory comprised In 'tlie ’ AhgloAißeriean- ryncWcate’a concession. * ’ Premier Zarnardelil of - Italy has *i»provejl n plan Jo spend g year <>n the bdii<’All<*rof Neapolitans nnd Sicilian* Intemliug to <*taigfat# to the ©alt-' 1 ed Xtalea in urdcT-10-prev*nt their rojeqtlon t»y, the American authorities. ,A bill Intn/dtK’elf in the Belgian rfch--nte diy tlic -govoniniciit aiming to tTtlsb A lie level of publld titendilp by lucrPamsTStringency in dealing with improper or I obscene public uth-rgnees has absorbed the attchtlwn bt iril’pfirrteA’ They hgA*e a* tor it* worth, but find IMAMy' lb 4* lining the class*** vs jdinqonoae ■. whltte* would cojne under the proviaion. .