The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-02-09

suOJecGS In Jne fhllilplne ISLANDS are
in revolt. They will probably succeed,
to Butcher Weyler, has gone home to
Madrid to complain of the lack of troops
and money.
In Peru there is a double headed
conflict. The gold mines are the ex-
citing cause Of the war. The natives
are defending their gold, while other
nations are rushing in to take it.
Brazil. the principal owner, is settling
upon a dividing line with Bolivia. To
this the Peruvians object, and declare
that they will fight to the bitter end
The Indie a and natives are killing
the Bolivia
Uruguay is another unsettled per-
ton of the western world. Far from
being at peace, as was supposed, 1T is
now discovered that the rebel leader,
Saraiva, has ~entreDched himself in
San Paulo, Brazil, and is gaining forces
every day. His object is TO take Mon
tevideo, Uruguay, and establish a new
government. In this he is aided by
revolutionists in Rio Grande De Sui,
Brazil. The situation is so serious that
the British warship "R~etribution" has
been SEM over for the protection Of
British subjects there, and Italy has
sent it's warship "Piedmonte" for the
same purpose.
Brazil has still another internal
heavipg, a fanatic war lead by Antonio
CunselheirO, The Good Jesus" The
plan Of the fanatic is to kill the gov
ernmental head Of each town, and place
an apostle in power. In the fiercest
conflict 200 fanatics were killed. The
government lost ten in driving the
rebels back into Matte Crosse.
The dlSDute over Corn island ia larp-
err in its complications than in actual
territory. Corn island and the Mos
qrito territory belong, it is claimed, tC
N caragua. But Colombia wants &c
own them, as they were taken from
her years ago. Colombia is slowly
taking possession, but if she continues
in her grab island policy, she will have
to fight San Salvador and Honduras
! who favor Nicaragua. Relations here
ment hardly knows the friendly powers
In the old world horrid situations
prevail even Russia and Germany are
two nations o fully at peace. The
former has recently discovered a gang
of nihilists, the largest and mos
powerful in the reign Of the present
car, and Germany is agitated with
dynamitcrs. These have been tracked
to middle Germany and are being ar
rested as fast as found. Dynamite
works arc being destroyed and dyna
miters imprisoned.
In Armenia rapid reforms are going
on, and tAe powers have decided &C lie
b Sultan alone for awhile. He may
turn over Il new leaf. If he does no
it Is said on good authority that tn,
powers OF Europe ave decided to takt
Turkey away from him and divide i
up.
This has driven the Sultan 81
wild with anger that recently he i'm
prisoned, fined and tortured in variou
ways Influential members Of the Hunt
schak anu Proschak sUcietio so callet
revolutionists. Meanwhile the peopl,
of Asia Minor are starving and drown
Ing, and the st0ppage OF The Orien
express prevents their cry Of woe from
reaching the outside world.
The situation in Africa is such that
speedy outburst is regarded inevitable
The Beers are still under arms, eve
suspicious that another Jameson vii
arise and raid them, and to the west O
them the Matabeles are sleeping OF
their clubs, md the Germans ar,
pressing from the north.
Tho army Of the Mahdi in the Sou
dan has its face pointed toward tin
Nile, down which the British troop
stcuaiiy movc. Menei,k and the Abys
slnlans are on One hand OF them and tn
Ashanti on the other.
England and the Zllu tribe OF Al
gonl arc in the throes Of war in South
ern Africa. a British mission station
IN South Africa has been burned ant
irantlc dispatches ent to England 70
help.
The troubles Of the queen OF NADIA
Eascnr have begun again. An immens,