Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — FOHEIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOHEIGN.

Count Potockl, the Russian imperial eup bearer is dead. * Forty-nine fishermen lost their lives near Copenhagen during the recent gales. The employers' liaoility bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons without a division. An Anarchist conspiracy to blow up the French Law Court and a new mosque at Algiers has been discovered. President Barrios, of Guatemala, has published a decree, which is, in effect a proclamation of emancipation of the laboring classes from slavery 1 • Italy is going to Amalgamate her telegraph and postal systems and th® operators and messenger boys struck. They went back to work. Tuesday. < Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone and Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by Countess Spencer, are at Windsor Castle on a visit to Queen Victoria. * Woman suffrage in parish elections at last seems likely to become an actuality In England. A provision allowing women who pay taxes to vote at all local elections has been incorporated in the parish councils bill. j A sixteen thousand-mlle race between four British steamships hat Just been ended by the arrival of theshlp Glencaird at Calcutta. The racers started from

Philadelphia last July, and the prize was a bag containing 5,0)0 gold dollars. The Italian cabinet has resigned because of the scandals brought to light by the deputies’ committee investigating the great bank failure of last summer at Rome. The Pall Mall Gazette says a movement, with the Russian government back "of it,Ts being made for the consolidation of Russian and American petroleum interests into one gigantic trust. As the Americans now have the largest share of the market it is considered doubtful that they will regard the favor.