Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Henry Pettit, the dramatist, is dead at London. t Mr. Gladstone celebrated bls eightyfourth birthday, Friday. Zola is urging a literary convention between Russia and France. Bishop Schopper of Rosena violently attacks the Austrian government for its liberal tendencies. The plant of El Democrata, the Mexican, paper confiscated for opposing the government, has been given to an orphan asylum. Twenty-seven new cases and twentyfour deaths from cholera are reported at St. Petersburg. Gen. Ghourko is seriously illstill. Italian bonds are being pressed in London and Paris on rumors that several Italian banks cannot carry over their holdings. A strikers’ riot occurred in a colliery at Pontymister, Wales, Christmas. The police charged the rioters. Twenty persons were Injured. There has been renewed and serious rioting owing to the anti-Octroi agitation at Lercaradi Freddi, a town forty miles from Rome. A body of military police in the Cameroons revolted but were brought into subjection by marines from the German cruiser. Hyena. The yellow fever Is raging at Rfo de Janeiro, lending additional horrors to the stricken city that has been for months in a state of siege. A riot took place in front of the palace at Amsterdam. Tuesday night Many of the mob were hurt before the police quelled the disturbance. Rumors are again persistent and as persistently denied that Chancellor Caprivi and Emperor William have disagreed and that the former has resigned. Count William Bismarck, governor of Hanover, second son of Prince Bismarck, has received a letter in which the writer threatened to blow up his house. Emperor William Is trying to purchase the how Capp diamond, said to be the largest In the world and more valuable than the Kohinoor—97l carats. A wealthy Chinese company has purchased 320,103 acres of land in Sinola. Mexico, on which it is proposed to colonize five thousand Chinamen. The Chihuahua revolution a ainst the Mexican government. It is said, has already resulted in the death of 6 » soldier* and thirty officers, as well as ninety oi the insurgents and nlnctyrfoar of theli wives.