Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Measures have been adopted for the suppressiou of vice in Berlin. Reports continue to come in of terrible suffering in famine-stricken Regions of Russia. The volcano on the island of Pantcllaria is twenty-eight hundred feet long and is Justvisible above the surface of theses The eruption continues, though with less violence. ' Influenza is raging in Galicia, the infec • tio.-. having been brought from Russia, hour thousand cases are reported from Danbci t> ’Jone. The disease is spreading in Franc*. Palenzuela, the notorious Cuban bandit was overtaken in the woods near Colon, »n tae 21st, by soldiers and shot to death. Io made a desperate fight and killed

several of his pursuers before he was shot, The State of Sonora, Mexico, is excited because the Ysiqul Indians, along tho Yaqul river, have declared war on tho government and have entered upon a campaign which promises to be bloody and troublesome. The Mexican government is concentrating troops as rapidly as possible. One of the Pope’s cardinals at Rome, in an interview, says that affairs in the church have so changed since the Pantheon disorders of October 2 that should the Pope not yield to the desires of official Italy he may be killed or driven from Rome. The interview is in many respects remarkable, being strikingly significant as an expression of the Vatican’s views as tothegrave character of an impending crisis which would mark a most important epoch in Papal history. □ Advices just received from Meiringen, in the Canton of Berne Switzerland, ate to the effect that the town has been almos 1 wiped out of existence by fire. The con flagration was fanned by a high wind, and the flames swept away street after street with frightful rapidity, The appliances of the corporation for extinguishing fires proved to be of no use whatever. The railway station, the postoffice, the telegraph offices and nearly all the business places and residences were destroyed, and in the briefest space of time. The Victoria Hotel and Wildermann's Hotel are tho only two structures to mark the situation of this once prosperous country resort of 3,000 inhabitants, and they were only spared owing to their isolation frourothei buildings.