Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Mme. Helene Retevva Blavatsky, the well-known theosophist, died at London on the 9tb. The government of Costa Rica has de cided to make a fitting exhibition at the World.s Fair. Judge Stephen, who recently resigned from the British High Court of Justice on account of alleged mental/ incapacity, will get a pension of $17,500. The explosion of 265 tons of gunpowder on the 23rd in the powder magazine at Pozze Pantaleo, Rome, which caused serious, damage and loss of life, created grea alarm at the Vatican. All the windows of the Pope’s library were broken and a number of precious relics were destroyed. In addition, many valuable panes of color glass in the principal windows in St. Peter’s Basilca were smashed to pieces. The handsome stained glass window over the chair of St. Peter was broken. Lord James Edward Sholto’Douglass, brother of the Marquis of Queensberry, committed suicide Tuesday by cutting his throat with a razor. Lord Douglass had been traveling from Ireland during the night, and he behaved in such a strange mnnner that the railroad officials, noticing that he apparently was in a demented condition, detailed an employe to accompany him. U pon arrival in London Lord Douglass put up at a hotel, and subsequently eluded the attendant and cut his throat. Lord "James Douglass was born in 1855.