Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1892 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Prince Bismarch was 77 years old April L The event was duly celebrated. The foot and mouth disease is alarmingly prevalent in Belgium. Dr. Vaughan has been appointed Arclr bishop of Westminister, to succeed Cardinal Manning. The yellow fever epidemic In Santos BrtMl. is claiming one to two hundred Victims dally. The French authorities have arrested Ravachal, the leader of the Paris Anarchists and dynamiters. The importation of cattle from Spain, Portugal and Norway to England has been prohibited by the government, owing to the prevalence qf the foot and mouth dlmaso. Captain Pon th ter, of the Congo Free SU'a. baa captured several strongholds of the Arab slave traders and liberated ts QVmher of captives. The slave traders hod been carrying ou extensive incursion ß in he Congo territory. It is ra.d that to such straits are the children in IRustia’c famine districts re duaed, when £ovaiag in the form of food be obtained, were in the habit of eating whatever rags fell to their possession, and that when tfir rags failed they actually devoured quantities of earth.