Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Swiss Republic protests against the quarantine in Italy, which is enforced equally against the Swiss and people of other nationalities. A letter from a Chinese official to a wealthy and influential Chinaman at San Francisco announces that the Pekin Government has determined to combat the French, at the same time ordering a tax to be levied on all Chinamen living in the United States. A secret treaty is also said to exist between Germany and China whereby the former will support the latter in a war with France. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburgh millionaire, has quarreled with his English partner, Mr. Samuel Storey, M. P., over the management of their half a dozen halfpenny newspapers. Carnegie furnished the money and Storey the brains for the journalistic enterprises. Storey was making the papers too radical. Hence the quarrel. ... At Whitehaven, England, Irish Nationalists made an attack on an Orange procession. Shots were exchanged, and several persons seriously injured. A telegraph boy was killed... .The Gladstone party refuses to accept the compromise offered by the Tory Peers through Lord Wemyss on the franchise bill. This probably ends the negotiations for the present.... China continues to maintain her bluster in

the dispute with France, and the latter is reported as firm and determined. A week VjiH settle the question of whether it will end in war or peace. England, it is reported, is inciting China to fight,...A train conveying the Emperor of Austria found the rails misplaced at a gorge near Podgoritea, evidently with murderous intent. . . . The British Government has information that Osman Digma has seized the port of Asia, six miles from Suakim.. J .The cholera epidemic at Marseilles is spreading. The people are fleeing from the city in large nunfbers. The railway stations are crowded with people trying to secure passenger tickets.