Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

France's embassador to Russiajias r<signed. General Mejia, ex-Minister of War. am a member of -the Pawwina —fungressrh dead, -*• - The naval exhibition was opened oi Chelsr'-.i embankment* in the pr« sene<-. othe Prince and Princess of Wales. - Tlu- British Tories have taken lhe Liberals by surprise in suddenly schangiuf frbirt and coining out in favorof freuiahfe cation. Grand Duke. Nicholas, an Ancle of tin Czar, is dead. He was a field marshal ii the Russian army and inspector general o Cavalry and the corps of j iigiupers, am has been, insane since last fall. lie. was sixty years old. The explosion of 2fis tons of gunpowde* on the 2ilrd in .the powder magazine at Pozze Pantaleo. Rome, which caused serious damage and loss of life, created grew alarm at the Vatican. All the windowso, the Pope's library were broken and a num ber of precious relics were destroyed. Ir glass in the principal windows in St. Pet' er's Basilca were smashed to handsome stained glass window over the chair of St. Peter was broken.