Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Riots occurred at Cork. Ireland, again Sunday. Emperor William’s efforts at social reform form the leading topic at Berlin. It is now feared that 10.000 lives were lost in The recent earthquake in Japan. Sandingham hall, the residence in London of the Prince of Wales, was damaged SIOO,OOO by fire Sunday. England has been flooded with false and sensational reports cabled from America about the Chilian imbroglio. Mr. Patrick McDermott, the McCarthyite candidate, has been elected without opposition to the seat in the House of Commons for North Kilkenny, left vacant by the death of Sir John Pone Hennessey, The nomination was given to Mr. McDermott after it had been declined by Mr. Michael Davitt. ” ■ ■ . Advjcesfrom Melbourne state that the epidemic of influenza shows no signs ol abating. Nearly every family in thecity is afflicted. In one, large establishment fifty employes were attacked, and one physician reports five hundred eases. Serious reports come from country districts, and deaths arc becoming alarmingly numerous. Naval authorities at Plymouth do not express much sympathy for the fishermen who claim to have had their boats damaged by the firing practice of her Majesty’® ships. They daim tbatThe flshchhen are in the habit of sneaking their boat* into some locality in range of the firing so that the boats may be sunk by a sfray ■hot and the fishermen be enriched by a liberal recompense. It pays, the navy people say, better than fishing.