Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Bread rioters and gendarmes collided at Placentia and Figline. Italy. A rioter was killed at eneh place. An anarchistic riot liroke out at Milan. Italy, and 300 persons were killed and 1,000 injured before the soldiery restored order. * A terrible sfory of cannibalism is reported from New Guinea. Fourteen escaped prisoners from Maiiar.ana attacked a friendly village, and eating eighteen men. An English tramp steamer laden with 2,000 tons of cotton and oil went ashore opposite Caesar's creek, near Miami, Fla. It is not known whether there was any loss of "life. A dispatch from Free Town. Sierra Leone, West Const of Africa, says. The rebellion which grew out of the dissatisfaction of the natives with the lint tax has spread to Shongay. in the Sherboro district. The headquarters of the American missionaries have been burned by the insurgents. A detachment of police has been sent to the assistance of the members of the mission. Lieut. Artiago of the Cuban army, now in Washington, is in receipt of a letter from the camp of Gen. Calixto Garda, which goes to show that the insurgents are eucournged by good news from this country. “Against this good news,” the letter continues, “we have much suffering and hardship, dne mainly to the lack of commissaries. But our deliverance is near at hand, and mo are of good cheer. The most interesting hit of news I have to tell you is about the capture in our camp of a spy. He was a non-commis-sioned officer, but he lives no more. He presented himself to our commanding general as a horn Cuban and was duly enrolled. His intelligence was of a high character, and he was raised from the ranks. He sustained a close companionship with the cook of Gen. Garcia, a poor and unintelligent negro from Santa Clara. The spy would have put poison In the food of our beloved chieftain bud he not been apprehended. He was caught red-

handed, and the convincing evidence mi found on his person. There was a. strong disposition to kill him without a hearing, but the generosity of our general would not allow it. He was tried and shot.” Speaking of the “great republic which so generously is helping us to freedom,” the writer says: “The name American is a safeguard and passport throughout this island except in the little patches of territory which are controlled by the enemy.” Owing to the war demonstration in nearby waters the island of Navassa. one of the small islands of the Caribbean sea, off the coast of Hayti, is threatened with a food famine. Reports of the distressing condition of affairs on the island have reached Washington and' Senator Gorman of Maryland called the attention of the President to the state of affairs and the necessity for relief of some sort. In view of itk close proximity to Cuba, Torto Rico and the islands in those waters, and the fact that Spanish vessels at any time may intercept and attack vessels going there, commerce with the taJhas been suspended. There are represented to be about seventy Americans on the island, mostly from Maryland. Senator Gorman urged immediate action. Orders were at once telegraphed to Admiral Sampson to send a warship to the island for the relief of its inhabitants. John H. Fowler, president of the Navassa Phosphate Company of’Baltimore, said: “The request that the United States afford the men on the island relief was made by me. We are unable to send them any more supplies, owing to the fact that American vessels cannot be chartered for the trip at any price and the Atlas line of steamers out of New York, which sail under the British flag, will no longer carry supplies to either Americans or Spaniards. I expect the men have about enough supplies to last them thirty days. Our sheds, buildings, railway and other works on the island, which cost us large sums of money, will likely have to be abandoned for the present and will probably be destroyed.”