The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-03
FOREIGN.

The residence of the United States
minister in Santo Domingo has been de-
stroyed in the rebel bombardment of that
City.
The story comes from Skiernewice that
the Cars niece died from poison and
that an attempt was made to poison the
whole Russian royal family.
The Norwegian steamer Victoria was
stranded in storm off Stavanger, Nor
way. Attempts to rescue the crew were
impossible. Five bodies have been wash
ed ashore.
The visit of King Victor and Queen
Helena Of Italy to England ended with
banquet at Windsor Castle to eighty
six guests; friendship with England is
believed strengthened.
Troops under Gen. Leonard Wood
have slain 800 Moros and wounded many
others in battle lasting five days, the
Americans having been led into an am
bush by treacherous natives.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail says that during the con-
ference at Windsor between King Victor
Emmanuel and King Edward a perma
nent Anglo-Italian arbitration treaty was
approved by both monarchs.
A civil marriage took place in Flor
ence between Miss Cornelia Scovel,
daughter of Mrs. Roosevelt Scoville, and
Count Arturo Fabricotti. United States
Consul Cramer and Count Bastogi were
the witnesses. The bride is relative of
President Roosevelt.
Israel Zangwill, 'the master of the
Ghetto" as he is called out of regard to
two of his most famous books, was quiet
ly married in. an East London registry
office to Edith Ayrton, daughter of w. E.
Ayrton, president of the British Institute
Of Electrical Engineers.
a telegram has been received from
the viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, say
ing that, according to reports received at
Madras, flood in the Palar river de-
stroyed half of the town Of Vanizam-
badl, in the Salem district. Two hun
dred persons We're drowned.
Princess Alice, wife of Prince Freder-
ick of Schoenberg- w aldenburg, has elop-
ed with her coachman. News of the
elopement has just become public, al
though it occurred two weeks ago. The
police are in pursuit, but have not learn
ed the whereabouts of the couple.
Private advices from Peking say Gen
eral Yuan Shi Kai, governor of Chi Ii
province, has informed the Emperor that
he is prepared to declare war against
the Russians in Manchuria. General Ma
is said to be ready TO march into Shan
Hal Kwan at the head of $1,000 men.
The Cherbourg correspondent of the
London Daily Mail reports the arrest of
one of the soldiers guarding the railway
line over which the train bearing the
King and Queen of Italy passed. The
soldier is charged with placing an OBJ
struction on the track with the intention
of wrecking the train.
The Sultan of Turkey has a cancer on
his intestines, but is in no immediate
danger and can drag on painful exist
ence for two or three years. His aggra-
waited condition recently brought on by
extra eXertions, caused him TO call in
Munich doctor, who advised him to have
an operation performed. but he refused.
Sir William Ramsay, the celebrated
chemist, in the course of n lecture deliv-
cred in London described number of
experiments made by him which had re-
suited in the discovery that the gaseous
emanation from radium was really hell
um. From this discovery Sir William
said it might be concluded that the trans
mutation of metals was not after all so
absurd a theory