Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

AH the cabs in London are tied up by a strike. Mancie will be left in comparativedark-

ness when the flambeau law goes Into,! effect. Berlin is overrun with destitute Hebrew# who have ffed from persecution Ip Russia. 1 | Chilian insurgents are highly indignant at the course of the United States in the Itata matter. Three persons were killed and seventeen injured on the 7th hy an earthquake sljpck lu northern Italy. The Chilian insurgents did much damage to government vessels in the harbor at Valparaiso, | The National Press charges Parnell with misapplying trust funds, and defies him to bring suit to disprove the charge. Hundreds are dying of hunger in the districts of Kazan, Simberisk. Samara, Nizhni, Novgorod and Pensa in Russia. j The census of London shows a population of 4,211.056. The outer ring has a population of 1,422,276, making a total of 5,033,331. A severe naval engagement has taken place in Chili, Three torpedo boats of the ! government were whipped by the insurgents' man-of-war.

Chancellor Von Caprivi’s policy on the corn duties has caused great discontent in Germany, and the socialists will lend active aid to the opposition. ________ Sir John McDonald, Canada’s Premier, died at Ottawa on the night of the oth. All Canada is In mourning, and the civilized world has taken notice of it. A conflict between British and Portugese colonists, in which seven Portugese were killed, took place in South Africa. The British loss is unknown: Two thousand men employed as drillers by the ship building firms on the Clyde, Scotland, struck work Monday. The strike is steadily spreading and threatens to paralyze operations in all the ship yards along the river. One thousand of the weavers in Perth also went on a strike. A dispatch from Constantinople reports a serious riot at Jerusalem', between Cath ol ies and Greeks, in which the Turkish troops intervened, killing several and wounding a large number. Tlie French ambassador at Constantinople has sent, a strong protest to the Porte against the action of the Turkish troops. It is reported that the Czar, in response to a personal appeal made by an exalted personage in behalf of the Jews of Russia, said lie was determined to continue his measure of Jewish repression, with a view of a solution of the Jewish question. The Jews themselves forced this policy. There hdd never been an Anarchist plot hatched in which they were not concerned. A horrible crime has come to light in one of the poor quarters of Kentishtown, a suburb of London. The neighbors of a family occupying apartments in,a house in that quarter noticed that none of the family had been seen for some time, and upon opening the apartments the head of tlie family, his wife and child were found dead in the rooms. Judging from the con - dition of the rooms, it is evident that the man first killed his wife and child by cutting their throats and then killed himself in the same manner.