Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Yellow fever rages at Rio Janeiro. A leper is loose in Belfast, Ireland. Henry M. Stanley Is planning a new Congo expedition, it4s said. German merchants at the City of Mexico strongly oppose Mexican reciprocity with the United States. I An Austrian spy named Krasnicki has been sentenced to tn trans; orted to Siberia, and three Russians who were his accomplices have been sentenced to eight years penal servitude. Krasniki bribed a man attached to the staff of the eleventh army corps to purloin military documents. Letters received from Jlddah. dated Aug. 24. state that the death rate from cholera among the pilgrims to Mecca was unprecedented in the annals of Mohammedan pilgrimage. The authorities at that time estimated that eleven thousand pilgrims had died during the season. At the date the letters rfeferrejl to"were sent all signs of the epidemic had disappeared It is now nr.thentatively stated that the landing of British marines on the island of Mityleue was not for “picnic purposes’’ at all. but was Intended to show what England would do if the sul ton allowed Russia to obtain command of the Dardanelles.