Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The first day of April being Prince Bismarak’s seventy-second birthday, the Chancellor received numberless tokens of esteem from all parts of Germany. After receiving personal congratulations from Princes William, Henry, Alexander, and George, the Chancellor went to the palace, where the Emperor awaited him. In. his passage along Unier den Linden Prince Bismarck received a hearty welcome .-r.v Three persons who attempted to assassinate the Czar with dynamite bombs were hanged in St. Petersburg last week. Repeated earthquakes have occurred at Aden... .The German press warmly approves of the new Italian Sret. the Russian military organ, says the work of the Anglo-Russian Frontier Commission is not likely to lead to any useful result, and adds: “The force of circumstances will inevitably impel Russia, sopjaer or later, to move forward into the passes left to the Afghans until she reaches her only natural and proper frontier—the Hin- - The Council of the Liberal Federation, at a meeting in London, adopted a lesolution protesting against the coercion bill as retrogressive in policy, tyrannical in principle, and vindictive in detail....lt is denied that the Irish Nntional League will remove its headquarters to England in event of the passage of the coercion bill. .... The work of evicting all of Lord Lansdowne's tenants who refuse to pay the rents demanded, will be resumed about April 30. At the request of the Ameer of Afghanistan, an English engineer has gone to consult with him regarding the construction of a railway from Cabal to Herat....The Canadian fishery cruiser Vigilant chased

! and fired at an American schooner, which, however, outsailed (he cruiser and escaped. The affair occurred off Beaver Harbor, New Bruuswick. A irnnMBNT of the Supreme Court of Justice in Germany lias been sent to-the Ministry of the Interior defining the scope of the American treaty regarding naturalized citizens. It affirms that the acquisition of citizenship in the United States, with an unbroken, residence there of five years, causes loss of citizenship in Germany. Such persons returning will be liable to expulsion from Germany until they recognize German rights. v . I