Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The British Cabinet has decided to create a department of labor. The Pope is much displeased at the reception by ecclesiastics of his legate to tho _ United States, Mgr. Satolll. The English Cabinet are preparing for trouble with the Khedive of Egypt, who has shown a suddenspiritof independence. A vast scheme for tho erection of a new Catholic edifice at Rome to cost $20,000,000, has been submitted to tho Pope by Cardinal Parrochf. A hurricane that has passed over Greece has done much damage In tho country and along the coast Shipping has suffered greatly. Cholera has caused tho death of twentyeight lunatics in the asylum at Hallo, where tho disease is now raging. Impure water is the cause. The multilated body of & young English woman, who was a bold mountain climber has been found at the bottom of a rockv ravine in the Swiss Alps. A train filled with recruits, near St Petersburg, took fire while going at full speed, on the 18th, and In a few mjnutes all the cars were blazing. Many succeeded in escaping by jumping into the snow banks, but forty-nine lives were lost, and twenty were terribly burned and otherwise Injured. William McEwan was hanged at Glasgow, Wednesday, for tho murder of a woman. After committing the crime he attempted suicide by cutting his throat The wound had not healed when he went to the gallows, and tho drop nearly tore off his head. A deficiency of 3,000,000 francs is stated tn exist In the Rome branch of the Banco Napolei. The cashier, of the Rotnebranch has been arrested and a director has absconded. It is reported that the absconding director recently bought a ticket to the United States. The Infpnta Isabella of Spain has withdrawn her provisional promise to open the Chicago Colombian exhibition. She. declines to visit tho United States on the gr nind that she would also be obliged to visit Cuba and Porto Rico, where yellow fever generally prevails.