Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien will be released from their Irish prison on July 30 The British Board of Trade returns for June show that imports increased £3,920,000, and that exports decreased £100, 09a as compared with those of June of last year. Jews to the number of about nine hundred left Lithuania (Russian Poland) last week. The police of Smolensk ordered them to embrace orthodoxy, but the Jews assembled In tho synagogue and vowed that they would not abandon their faith. They then sold their houses and in two days left the country. A dispatch from St Petersburg says that com merchants have taken advantage of the scarcity of rye to create a corner in commodity. “Cornering" is illegal but can be piirsued twith Impunity by bribing The famine is so serious that the Grashdanin thanks tho German Chancellor for instituting a prqhibitiv tariff which stops the ex port of grain from Russia. Tin grip epidemic is having terrible results on the Labrador coast. At River Pel tec os te, Point Au Esquimaux, Plaster Cove and Melgan. dozens of peoplo have died, dozens are dying, and many have gone insane, and, to make matters worse, provisions have run short- Bishop Bosse Is down with the disease, his prelate is dead and a number of nuns are also among the dead.