The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-05
FOrei6n

Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid took luncheon with King George.
General Leonidas Plaza was elected
President of the Republic of Ecuador.
The treaty establishing a French
protectorate over Morocco has been
signed by the Sultan.
In order to protect residents in Cen
trail America the Legislature at Kings
ton, Jamaica, decided to appoint a la
Dor agent to that region.
Miss Glib, a ~suffragette, was SEN
fenced at the London Sessions to eight
months imprisonment for breaking
windows, valued at 1920.
German postal authorities are ex-
p~erimenting with a small t~hree-wheel-
ed automobile for the use of letter car
riers.
The Kaiser left Venice on the i'm
perial yacht Hohenzollern en- route to
Corfu, where he will spend a brief va
cation.
The Italian Government has landed
troops and intends to occupy the is
land of Lemos, in the Grecian Archi.
pelago. 1t has a population of about
d 1000.
Premier Asquith announced the
! complete failure of the British Gov
ernment's attempt to end the coal
strike. The Minimum-Wage bill will
be pressed to enactment.
Bishop Yoichi Hondo, president Ct
the Christian College at Toxic and
leader of the Methodist Church in ia
pan, died of typhoid fever in Nagasaki.
Bishop Hondo was "a years old.
The city of Tsaochow, in the pro
vince of Shantung, is besieged by mu-
tinous volunteer troops. Fighting has
been going on for two days and 1900
soldiers have been sent from Canton.
A sensation was created in Vienna
by the announcement that Emperor
Francis Joseph had threatened to
abicate unless his wishes in refer
ence to army reform in Hungary were
carried out.
DR.. Piery of Lyons, France, an
nounced that he had found the germs
of tuberculosis in the Precipitation of
consumptives and believed that this
accounts for the contagion carried in
their clothes.
Capt. SCOTS Antarctic exploring
| steamer, the Terra Nova, arrived at
Akaroa, New Zealand, bringing from
him this message: 81 am remaining
in the Antarctic for another winter in
order to continue and complete my
work"
British mine-owners accepted the
Governments Minimum Wage bill and
the Miners Federation referred It TO
the men to vote on. The 10000 troops
at Aldershot were ordered ready to
move to the mining regions.
Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, who
was quoted by Colonel Cocktails, chief
engineer of the Panama Canal, as say
ing that the canal should be strongly
fortified in order to insure United
States control, denied the statement.
Baron Rothschild, head of the Euro
pean banking firm. visited j. P. Nor
gan at the latter's hotel in Rome. All
day talk starts many rumors.
A Canadian jury returned a verdict
for $4,000 against Mikail Mordkin,
the Russian ballet dancer. in favor of
one Shiverick, who was hit by the per.
formers sword blade that few out OF
it's hilt.
The former Greek robber, Strait, has
been extradited by the Greek authori-
ties who expect interesting revelations
from him as to ransoms that he and
his band of k~iidnappers squeezed from
relatives of their victims.
A second attempt to assassinate
Wong Hing, minister of war, was made
at Shanghai. A bomb was hurled at
Wong as he was passing through the
streets.
The city of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
was swept by a cyclone which de
| stroyed several residences. Eight
lives were lost while 80 persons were
severely injured.
A section of the Berlin subway un
der the Spree collapsed and so work
men had narrow escapes from drown
ing. More than 81 900, 900 damage was
done.