Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Spain is considering the advisability of conceding modified home rule to Cuba, A postal reform, under tho management of Europeans,ls to bo inaugurated in India. The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland has lost her suit for possession of Tittcnsor Chase. The town of SchAcldmenhl, Posen, Germany, is slowly sinking Into the workings of a colliery. Sixteen livos were lost by a benzine explosion in chemical works,at Odessa. The bodies were consumed in tho burning bnllding. The Czar has officially thanked the commissioners who negotiated the extradition treaty between Russia and the IJnltfcd States. The trial took place in thq River Mersey, Monday, of the largest dredger in the world, Capable of raising 24,000 tons of matter daily. The Argentine bondholders have agreed to accept the plan Of settlement determined upon by the Rothschild committee and the Government. There Is a deficit of 96,000,000 in the Cu- . ban budget, but the Minister of the Colonies states that the shortage can easily be met if the political and financial reforms that are desired by a majority of the Cabans are conceded. ' The rioting started in Bruenn, Austria,

by agitators for universal suffrage, was renewed, Monday. Troops were called to aid the police. The rioters stoned them, and were dispersed only after a hot fight, in which many workingmen were cut and several soldiers knocked down:. ' Queen Lilluok&htoi, of Hawaii, has made a proposition to the United States to relinquish her claims to the throne for n cash consideration and lias made Paul Neumann her agent to conduct negotiations, Ttye provisional government has hoisted tfie national flag over the palace at Honolulu and taken formal possession of the building. * ’ — —.. .A large dynamite bomb was exploded. Tuesday near the palace of the exPreinier of Spain, Canovat Del Castillo, at One man was killed and another dangerously injured. An anarchist plot to kill Castillo is believed to have failed on account of a premature explosion, and it is thought the man killed and the one injured were the conspirators trying to carry it into effect.