Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

5 Mr. Gladstone has determined to . push the home role bill; and it will be reported to the House of Commons, July 31. The French gunboat Lutin is anchored in front of Bangkok, the capital of Biam, and preparations have been made to fire on the city. Advices from Mecca show that 999 persons died from cholera in that city. Tuesday. This is the largest number yet reported during the present epidemic. Sir Michael Cume-Seymonr has bepn made chief of tho British Mediterranean station to succeed Vice-Admiral Sir G*<?. tryon, who lost his life by the foundering of the battleship Victoria. Rear-Admiral Markham's official report to the Admiralty office concerning the loss of H. M. 8. Victoria in the collision off Tripoli holds Admiral Tryon responsible for the catastrophe, because of his ordering an impossible maneuver. Rector Ahhvardt, the Jew-baiter of the Reichstag, has again been convicted of libeling Prussian officers and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. He is now in the Ploetzenzee prison, serving out the sentence imposed on him for libeling Herr von Loewe, Hebrew gunmaker, and German officials. The latest libekwas/ uttered in a speech at Essen in October, 1881, and consisted of statements to the effeet that German, and more particularly Prussian officiai life was corrupted by Jewish influence. Reports received at Madrid from Manilla show that a desperate fight has taken place on the Island of Mindoro, the largestof the Philippine groups A force of 0,000 rebellious natives, led by their Sultan, made an attack on FortMunmungan, Mindoro. The Spanish garrison successfully repulsed the natives after a stubbornly contested-fight. The natives lost eighty-seven men killed, including the Sultan, while 300 Of their number were wounded. The Spanish loss, if any, is not known.