Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A duplicate cable has been laid in ten months from Salina Cruz, Mex., to Chorrilios, Peru. It length is 2,524 miles. Advices from Tashkend, In Syr-Darya, Asiatic Russia, show that the cotton crop in the country thereabouts is in splendid condition. Lloyd’s sanitary inspector at Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey, announces the outbreak of cholera at some of the stations on the Tigris and at Bussorah. At a sale of unclaimed baggage at the Grand Trunk depot, Montreal, June 1, Lee Stanton, a painter, bought a valise for $2 that contained 107 shares of the Western Gas Improvement Company, of Chicago, fully paid up, worth $107,000. The valise was the property of Louis Halberstadt, who died at Brockville, Ont., in October, 1891, of alcoholism. In the House of Commons, Wednesday, Wolmerl, Liberal .Unionist, moved as an amendment to the home rule bill that the Irish Legislature should not be empowered to grant votes in supply respecting matters upon which they were forbidden to legislate. The amendment was rejected by a vote of 240 to 188. Gen. Goldsworthy, Conservative, moved an amendment to abolish the office of Viceroy for Ireland and substitute a Secretary of State. He said that he hoped to see members of the British royal family residing in Ireland. Prime Minister Gladstone said that he concurred in the hope, but nevertheless it was impossible to accept the amendment.