Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Brazilian insurgents aro said to be on their lastlegs. Peixoto is rapidly getting the upper hand in tho contest. Herr Mayer, editor of a newspaper at Manheim, called the Pfalzgdu Echo, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for libeling the Duke of Baden. The municipality of Paris, in order to marK their appreciation of the visit of the Russian sailors to the capital of France, propose to erect a statue in honor of Russia near the Arc de Triompbe. The Ulster Parliament of 603 members met at Belfast, Ireland, "Tuesday, and passed resolutions against home rule and declaring allegiance to tho United Kingdom. Prairie fires have been committing great havoc in the Winnipegdistrictfor the past few days. Many farmers have lost their crops. Two children wero burned to death. The Russian fleet was given a great reception by the French at Marseilles, Thursday. After the reception the party entered carriages and were driven to the prefecture. The Russians expressed in enthusiastic terms their admiration of the beautiful elms that line the boulevard through which they were driven. The route followed was the "Boulevard du Nord, Boulevard du Gommier, tho Conrs Lietrud, Boulevard de Romo and Boulevard du Muye. An immense crowd lined the entire distance, and tho scenes that marked the trirmphal progress of tho Russians were similar to those enacted at the recent fetes in Paris and Lyons.