Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Advices from Bournemouth, England, say that ex-Secretary Manning is greatly improved in health... .Buccaneer, the famous stallion owned by the Austrian Government, for which SIOO.OOO was refused in 180 S, has been shot on account of his old age. Several Gladstone Liberals, 6ays a cable dispatch, desire to Lave Parliament issue a summons to the editor of the London Times calling him before the bar of the House of Commons to answer foe breach of privilege in accusing Mr. Parnell and other members of the House of complicity in crime, or that Mr, Gladstone propose, the appointment of a committee to examine the 'limes’ charges. The Parnellites have been consulted, and their leaders opposed the proposition. Mr. Biggat will sue the Times for libel, and make that paper's articles on “Pdrnetlism and .Crime,” of the series of which tbe Parnell letter was the culminating part, the basis of the action, r FiiFNCH manufacturers ask their Governi ment to postpone the International Exhibi- , tion to a more favorable date than that of 1889.,. .The Vatican, in answer “to ini qniries as to whether the Pope was in favor ! of having a reconciliation effected..jsitlL.., ‘ Itsdy «e tfig"BSSis of a rehtihciation of the i Papal‘-claims to the temporal power of the ; Porie, states that the Pope desires peace ■ with, Italy, but has never thought of i abandoning the rights of the Church hr the Papacy. The French have occupied the Wallis Islands, in the South Pacific, for a coaling station A chorister in the Military Academy Church in St. Petersburg eommitted suicide. It was then found that his house was a Nihilist rendezvous. Leo Hartmans, the nihilist, has been identified in New York as a soap-peddler.

He has be*n making a poor living for mouth#, under an assumed and quite unknown to tbe police; but he was tempted to make a speech in a recent meeting denunciatory of Secretary of State. Bayard for arranging a treaty with Russia to extradite assasins of the Czar and recognition has ensued . The arfest of Schnaebels on the Franco-German frontier is the sensation of Europe. Conflicting stories are current relative to Bismarck’s alleged authorship of the affair. It is generally believed that Schnaebels was decoyed to German soil, and lhat tbe German Government will back up Ihe action of its police.