Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Emperor William's illness has assumed a serious aspect. Severe shocks of earthquake have occurred at Vernome, in Turkestan. The town was almost entirely destroyed. One hundred and twenty persons were killed and 125 injured. • A dispatch from St. Petersburg, says: “The Czar is incensed at the tone adopted by the Russian press in regard to his foreign policy. The Czar aims at maintaining peace, and his policy emphasizes the tradition of amity between Rustia and Germany.” Fifty miners were killed by a fire-damp explosion in a Westphalia (Germany) coal shaft.