Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Cholera is growing more virulent in Russia. J .. > The government of Siam has conceded everything asked for by France. Austrian and Italian laborers in Colorado are leaving for their native land In great numbers. Two hundred members of '(he House of Commons, Monday night, abjectly apologfzed for their recent scrimmage. The town of Blrsk, Russia, has *been visited by a most disastrous conflagration, One hundred and aizhtv houses were

bunted. .Seven persons were killed and a large number injured. Among the buildings destroyed were the City Hall and the Catholic church. Information comes of a serious battle is the interior of Nicaragua. More than a thousand of the participants were killed. A terrific explosion occurred, Thursday, on the German ironclad Baden, at Kiel. Some of the men had just removed a grenade, measuring 26 centimes in diameter, from the magazine. Through some cause. not.yet explained, the grenade exploded, killing or wounding nearly every person on duty. Licuts- Oelsener and Zembsch and seven seamen were killed, their bodies being horribly mangled,while seventeen were wounded, many of whom will die. The vessel was wrecked. The Baden is a vessel of 5,600 tons, mounts eight guns and her armor is ten inches —