Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Chqleea in its most fearful form prevails at Paris to an alarming extent Eleven deaths and ninety-seven new cases occurred in one day, exclusive of those occurring at the hospitals, which were overci owded with patients suffering from the dread disease. .. ..Victor Guichard, senior member of the French Chamber of Deputies, died at the Palais Bourbon while conversing with his colleagues.... An edict has gone forth from the Parisian police that public gambling must cease. Twenty-three gambling clubs are said to have already been closed. Kaiseb ’Wilhelm’s late accident proves to have been caused by a faintingfit These fits, it is said, have become periodical, and will, it is feared, result some day in serious injury.... The Canadian boatmen are paving mors trouble than was anticipated in the Nile expedition. The water is muddy, and it is next to impossible to see the rocks, and

consequently the work is tedious;... Telegrams from Amoy state that the French have captured Tamsui. ; .. Shanghai correspondence to the London Times reports that the Annamite, auxiliaries to the French army beheaded 500 Chinese prisoners at Kep... .A cablegram from Berlin announces the death of Alfred Edmond Brehan. the German traveler and naturalist Prof. Lushington has been elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University.. . .Matthew Arnold is about to make another tour in America... .Baron Alexander Von Stieglitz, the famous Russian banker, left a fortune of $750,000,000... .The total Socialist vote at the recent German election was 650,cj00.