Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Fifteen thousand London carpenters have been locked out. Baron Hirsch will buy five million acres in Uruguay as a site for the proposed Jewish colony. In London, Lord Romilly and two servants were smothered to death in a fire in the former's residence. A conflict between British and Portugese colonists, in which seven Portugese were killed, took place in South Africa. The British loss is unknown.

The queen has decided that the duke of Fife’s daughter (the recently born granddaughter of the prince of "Wales) is to have only the rank and title to which she is entitled as the daughter of a duke. The queen came to this decision in spite of th fact that the legal advisers of the crown concurred in the opinion that the prince of Wales’grand-daughter should rank as a princess of the blood royal. The queen's decision, however, is final. To celebrate the visit of the Czarewitch to Siberia, an imperial decree has been issued authorizing the Siberian governors to remit two-thirds of the sentences and otherwise to ameliorate the condition o, worthy convicts. Mr. William Harry Smith, the first lord of the treasury, has introduced in the House of Commons a bill prepared by the government ng British subjects from catching seals in the Behring sea for a certain period. The duration of the time during which seals can not be captured is not, however, given in the hill.

The Good Templars’ Grand Lodge, at Edinburg, has elected the Canadian Mohawk Indian, Oronhyatekha, chief of the order, and Wavrinsky, a member of the Swedish Parliament, to second place. •Miss Schreiner, of Africa, has been elected to an office in the Grand Lodge, and Mrs. Brookbank, of Indiana, and Parker have been re-elected to their respective offices. An extraordinary case of juvenile precocity incrimeis reported from Oynne, France. The criminal, a boy only twelve years old, named Maroe, has confeesd that he enticed a child of only four years into the woods under pretense of gathering flowers for him, and there, pretending to show him a fish in the river, pushed him in and stoned him each time he came to the surface and attempted to climb up the bank untfi his exhausted victim was drowned. - ‘