Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Yellow fever is spreading in Brazil. The St. James Gazette advooates retaliation against the United States copyright bill. “If the Americans will not give copyright to books printed here,” it says “let us retaliate by refusing to give copyright to books printed in America. The bill is not# reparation, but Is passed in the interest of Amerioaa printing trades in order to deprive the British of a flourishing industry.” Fireman Sadler, who was arrested February 13 last, the day the woman named Frances Coleman, otherwise known as “Carroty Nell,” was found murdered in Whitechapel, and who was charged with having murdered her, has been discharged. The police could not collect sufficient evidence to connect him with the crime, which is now definitely placed to the acs count of the mysterious and undefinable murderer whom the police and public know only under the designation of “Jack the Ripper.” Madrid Heraldo, in article protesting against a supposed scheme of the United States government to annex the island of Cuba, says Mr. Blaine ought to recollect that the Congress of American nations plainly proved that Spanish-Amer-icans are not disposed to allow themselves to be absorbed by the great Northern Re publio. The people of Cuba, it says, are strongly Spanish and aro equally opposed to becomings part of the United States. Probably, with the exoeption of a few tradesmen, there is no one in the island who Ts “at Rll desiroui of annexaTon: Spain, the Heraldo continues, would shed her last drop of blood in resisting any attempt to deprive her of her colony, fearing neither a Cuban revolution nor a war with the United States. Marion oouniy, Ohio, commissioners have just allowed the largest sheep claims in the history of the county, the two heaviest being Enoch Hoch, $125.80. and Jacob Linn, $109.80, and the grand total of all $425.50. The culprit who found that lovely woman leaned to mercy in her judgments, was—a man!