Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Czar has temporarily relaxed his Jewish expulsion measures ‘as a tribute to the United States. The Master Tailors’ Association has decided to resort te a general lockout in Great Britain unless the strike in Liverpool ceases within a week. The police authorities of Berlin have forbidden Guelph clubs in Hanover to celebrate the battle of Langensalza and other memories.; The tower of a church which was in course of erection at Ssalatina, Hungary, fell on the 24th, killing sixteen of the workmen. A contractor at Riode Janeiro. Brizil. in removing an old monastery, is said to have discovered treasure to the value of $70,000,000.

Advices from Allahabad say that SCO Russian explot ers are at work extending Russian influence among the inhabitants of Painli PI a teatt^--?^-—■" An attempt (o assassinate Mme. Constanse, wife of a Minister of France, was made by an unknown person, who mailed her a book hollowed out in which was placed an infernal machine. The whole southern portion of China is in a state of turmoil. Law and order are set at deliance and armed'bands of plunderers have made business almost impossible. Lee Wing Chuue, (Governor-Gen-eral of Formosa, is in very bad health and not expected to live long. It is believed his death will be the signal for revolts and general uprising against Chinese rule. The feeling asound Shanghai is one of disquiet on account of late riots. Foreign residents are apprehensive that attacks will be made upon them at any time. During the debate on the Irish estimates in the House of Commons, July 21, Mr. Balfour, the Chief Secretary t>f Ireland, intimated that a local government bill for Ireland, based broadly on the same lines as the English and Scotch acts, will be introduced at the next session. He asked whether such a bill would have the support of the Irish members, adding that he doubted it. Tim Healey, interposing, said that such a bill certainly would have the support of the Irish members. A dispatch from the west coast of Africa gives news of a French expedition of fifty persons recently started from Lahon. on the gold coast, to avenge the Fienchmen recently killed by the blacks. After a week’s march through a tropical forest they encountered 1,200 warriors armed with European rifles, led by three fetishmen at the village of Jouse. A fight took place, lasting four hours, in which one fetishman and many natives killed and a large number were wounded. The natives retreated. Two Frenchmen were killed and twelve wounded.