Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Brazil and; the Argentine talk about fighting. Near Victoria, Mcx., an English syndicate Is locating colonists on a 500,000 acre concession. They will grow oranges. The Dominion government has decided not to ask parliament to ratify the reciprocity treaty recently negotiated with France. Toronto dispatches of the 2d indicate that the sentiment for annexation to the United States is rapidly extending throughout the Dominion. The war in Honduras continues and unparalleled atrocities are reported. Prisoners captured by either side are slaughtered, and no regard is had for the usagSjf of civilized warfare.

Russian nihilists are unusually active. The assassination of Mayor Allexjeff, of Moscow, has been traced to them, and it is claimed that lie was killed for the sole reason that he was a prime favorite with the Czar, and not for any specific act of his own. There is another crisis in France but the Panama seandal is not the cause. The Deputies decided to retain tho liquor law amendment as part of the budget in spite of the government’s disapproval. Tho ministry as a result have tendered their resignations, notwithstanding the protest of President Carnotr= A conspiracy to bring about a Revolution was discovered in Costa Rica on tho 27th Inst., and was suppressed through the energetic and cautious action of the government. M. Mange, agent for tho liquidators of the Panama Canal Company; has secured from the Colombian government one month more in which to arrange for an extension of the time within which tho company must begin the work.

The Austrian war office has accepted the bullet-proof cloth invented by Herr Silander, an engineer resident in Paris. The cloth is a third of an inch thick, and issaid to be much more pliable than thati prepared by the tailor iJowe, in Mannheirn. . Germany is experimenting \yith a new explosive calculated to supplant gunpowder. The detonation, recoil and smoko are very slight. The substance will not ignite from concussion or spark, ignition coming from a , contact with another chemical compound. The receipts of Monte Carlo wore larger during tho year which ended Friday than during any year since gambling has been the chief attraction at that famous Resort. The captain of a cattle steamboat sailing from Liverpool put nine stowaways on shore at Cappl island, which is uninhabited. They were rescued from the island by the crew of a fishing boat and conveyed to the -neighboring headland of Knockadoon. They then proceeded to Queenstown. The United States minister at Constantinople has protested to the Sublime Porte against the opening of letters sent to him under the consular seal from Marsovan. Harry R. Newberry, secretary of the U. S. legation, has started for Marsovan and Cesarea to inquire into the reports of attacks upon Americans in those cities.