Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

At London, in a gunpowder explosion, ono person was killed and nino fatally injured. The coining winter has been selected for a series of extensive army maneuvers in Moscow. A battle was fought in the Sierra Ma dres, near Colnia Juarez. Friday, between Mexican troops and rebels, in which over one hundred troops and twenty-five rebels were killed. The usual revolution is impending In Venezuela. Tlio base of operations is in New York. A band of exiles in that city are plotting to overthrow the existing government, and are believed to have the means to send ships to blockade all the ports of Venezuela. Prof. Goerdler, who has achieved notoriety by his declaration that he would challenge the Kaiser to fight a duel unless Bismarck was punished for alleged misdemeanors, arrived at New York, Thursday. He is insane and has hecn in an asylum in Germany for two years.