Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — [?]OREIGN. [ARTICLE]

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The Porte is considering the advisability of increasing its army. The Gn at Eastern steamshiphas been sold to afirm, who will break her up for old metal. - i ■ King Humbert, of, Italy, will make no present to the Pope, and has forbidden the members of his family doing so. A wave, the culmination of a threedays’ storm at Baracoa, Cuba, Dec.,4. washed away 300 houses. No lives were lost. There is no improvement in the situation in the Austro-Russian frontier, nor an attitude of the powers toward each other., The reports, warlike And peaceful, about balance. A present from President Cleveland, io the Pope, arrived at Rome Saturday night. It is a copy of the United States Constitution beautifully engrossed and richly bound in book form. The book is gilt-edged, contains fifteen pages,each page being eighteen inches square, and is bound in veium of a cream color. The loss of the ship Alfred Watts, Philadelphia for Hioga, Japan, with oil, is confirmed by two sailors, the only survivors, who were thirty-two days on •he dismantled hulk. She was wrecked October 19. They were picked up Nov. 20 by the Liaaie Berry, which was wrecked near the Barbadoes, all being saved. A. B. Oakford, of Philadelphia, a passenger on the Watts, was also lost. Mr. Gladstone and wife started, Monday, on their journey to Cherter amid the cheers of an immense crowd of holiday makers, who wished nim a prosperous journey. On their arrival at Chester the station and surrounding streets were filled with another great throng, who shouted welcome to the grand old man. Mr. Gladstone was evidently much affcotedby the heartiness iff the greet-

ing, and made a brief speech, in which he hoped Cheater would do her du|y in the next ejection. ' A heavy “norther” *ewept over the West Indies on the 6;h, 7th and Bth insts., causing great damage. In all some seventy vessels were wrecked. A coasting schooner, name unknown, capsized while making Cape Haytien, and thirteen of her crew of fifteen were drowned. The British steamer Violet was caught in the gale and eight of her crew were washed overboard ‘ anil drowned. ! the Governor of Conme District Prison entered tbe cell of David Sheehy, M. P., accompanied by five wardens’ and honorable gentleman, who bad'been sentenced to a tm change his clothes for tire prison garb. Mr. Sheehy refused to jeJclbo, whereqpon the warden knocked him down, tied his hands and forcibly removed his clothes. They then went -away, leaving Mr. Sheehy in his fiannel-r. One of 'he wardens threw him the prison clothes. The bed-clothes were also removed. The imperial family of Germany is indeed severely afflicted at the present moment. The Duchess of SchleswigHosltein, mother of the Princess William of Prussia, who will be the future Empress of Germany, has become insane and has been placed uhder re .attaint in a private- asylum at Gratz, Austria. As insanity is generally a hereditary disease, the outlook is scarcely encouraging for the Hohenllern dynasty, while if matters go on as at present the whole of the reigning families of Europe will be on the demented list.

A revolution headed by ex-President nf Gautemala, Vicente Castano, against the government of General Barrillas, for having proclaimed a dictatorship, June 19, lately suffered a most humiliating defeat. There were two disaffected factions, one working from the eastern department and the other from the western, tbe former under the generalship of Castano and tne latter ip charge of several well known military men of the republic. In a range of mountains near the city of Gautemala, a few days ago, a deiperate battle was fought between the federal ana revolutionist forces, the latter suffering almost complete annihilation. The battle was desperate and sanguinary from the com mencement; and lasted over two hours, the field being strewn with the dead. At the conclusion Castano was routed, and the other revolutionary Generals were e.p'.ured and shot. This ends one of the n oit bloody wars the country has ever seen. The country now enjoys peace. 1- r 7 c