Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

At a banquet given to King Frederick •f Denmark during his visit to Reikiavik, Iceland, the king announced his policy reCirding the future relations between the land and the Danish crown, saying: “I have established a commission to arrange to define the constitutional position of Iceland in the realm and to find a form under which the freedom of Iceland may be built up and protected, while at the same time the unity of the realm Is preserved and insured. It is reported from London that the management of the Daily Mail and Evening News, known as the Ilarmsworth papers, which were recently mulcted to the •xtent of $250,000 on a libel suit brought by W. H. Lever of Liverpool, has settled another similar suit by the payment of $123,000 and the publication of an apology. This latter suit was brought by Joseph Watson A Sons of Leeds. Both actions grew out of a controversy over tho alleged attempt to bring about a combination of the English soap manufacturers. Not less than 6,000 troops have been summoned to the vicinity of Belfast, Ireland, in order to control the situation arising from the strike of ths dock laborers for increased pay and shorter hours. The calling of troops was due partly to the fact that the police had struck to enforce their demand for more prgr because of tbe extra work. The strikers were attacking non union laborers at every opportunity. One feature of the trouble is tho closing of a number of •pinning mills through inability to obtain coal.