Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

" Russia has sent secret instructions to all Government Railway Inspectors on the subject of the mobilization and transportation of troops...: It is announced that Russia and Austria have reached an agreement for the settlement of the Balkan troubles. ... A foreman in the torpedo works at Chatham, England, has been dismissed for giving to foreigners, information regarding improvements in naval devices. “Marvelously extensive and rich goldquartz veins,” the dispatches say, have been discovered in the Transvaal goldfields, and which, when fully developed, will prove among the richest in the world. ; The Egyptian Minister of the Interior has resigned in disgrace... .The Stanley expedition for the rel.ef of Emm Bev has arrived at Cape Town... .Christine Nilsson has been marr ed to Count Miranda, and it is reported- that -she- will- retire 11 from the lyric , stage .... The railway being constructed by the Russian government from - the Caspian Sea has reached Charjui, on the River Oxtts... M. de Lesseps. who is now in Berlin, where the Emperor has treated him with-marked Consideration, declares that France is decidedly lh favor of peace.... The Shah of Persia has granted a concession for the erection of a hospital in Teheran under the direction of W. W. Torrence, physician of the American Presbyterian Board Of Missions. Fourteen commissioned, officers who participated in the recent revolt in Bul- . garia were sfept near Rosgrad... .Lytton ! Edward Sothern. tire actor, son of the late E.'A. Sothern, has just died at London..,, . The German Parliamefit paised the | septenate bilk fixing for seven years

the numerical peace effective force of the nrmv at 408,400 men, or one man to eg<h JOO inhabitants according to last year’s census. This is an increase of something over 43.000 men to the standing urm.v. The vote stood—yeas 227, nays 31, and 84 opponents abstained from voting, making the opposition 115 against 227, a singular triumph for Bismarck. An increase of taxation of course must follow this enlargement of the standing army in order-to support it. The war scare appears to have blown bver. France is not going to attack Germany, and Bismarck saya there will be no war unless she does. __