Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Canadian national debt has doubled in the last twenty years. A new volcano has broken out in the district of Van ih Armenia and many people were killed. Lord Edward Cavendish, youngest son of the Duke of Devonshire and member of Parliament for West Derbyshire, died on the 18th from an attack of influenza. There are five thousand prisoners in Russia awaitlhg sultabTe weather fbr thelr transportation to Siberia. The prisoners will be voluntarily accompanied by'their wives and families, numbering ten thousand persons. In an account of the fight between the war-ships in Caldera bay, which resulted in the blowing up of the revolutionists vessel, the Blanco Encalada, a Peruvian paper states that during the fight the Blanco was at anchor. The government man-of-war, Almirante launched twelve torpedoes, not seven, as has been stated, against the Blanco. None of them but the last exploded. The twelfth torpedc exploded directly under the Blanco amidships and blew a big hole in her. killing 180 of her crew and many of her officers, and the secretary of the rebel army Valdez Vorgara, who was on her.