Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1893 — FOREIGM. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGM.

Chancellor Von Caprivi is seriously ill. France and Siam will probably go to war. Eighty-five cases of cholera are reported in the hospital at Alexandria, Egypt. Forty deaths from the disease have occurred. The Uruguay Congress has made an appropriation of an additional 110,000 for the exhibit of Uruguay at the Worlds Fair. Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the State of La Plata have asked the Argentine Federal Congress to annul the decree for disarmament of its military forces and trouble is feared. 6Of the 480 members of the Italian Senate 123 are charged with complicity, director indirect, in the bank scandals. About one hundred membenof the Chamber of Deputies are similarly implicated. Festivities over the royal wedding on the 6th continued in London over the Sabbath. TheCzarewitch, in attendance at the wedding, has given those having the care of his person in charge the greatest trouble by his indifference to danger, and has laughed at the precautions taken to guard him from the assaults of Nihilists. Several times this dare-devil heir to the Russian throne has given his body guard the slip and mixed with the London populace on the street in the most reckless way. :