Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Extremely cold weather prevails in England and on the continent. Five children were drowned while skating at Bottbus, Brandenburg. Diplomatic reiattshS Between Russia and the Vatican will likely be resumed. The London Times says confidence is what is needed to help trade conditions. QueerTVictoria has conferred upon the ameer of Afghanistan the honorary knighthood of the grand cross of the bath. The Mexican government is ready to build a telegraph line from Presido Del Norte to Juarez. The distance is about 200 miles along the Rio Grande. ~~ "" One hundred and forty marines left Kiel for the Cameroons. Crowds of people gathered to bid them farewell, and the bands played the national anthem. A force of 400 military and police with a hundred Gporkhas with two mountain guns has been organized to proceed against the Abor tribes on thp Assam frontier. • : . The private fortune of King Humbert of ltaly, amounting to 100,000,600 lire, has been deposited with the London house of the Rothschilds. The Secolo also says that the greater portion of the sum has been saved out of the civil list, at the rate of about 10,000,000 lire per year. Salvador Franch, a notorious Anarchist, was captured at Saragossa by ttarSpanish police after a desperate attempt to take his own life, Tuesday. He struggled with his captors and continued his anarchist threats and curses, and loudly avowed his complicity in the Llcoo theater outrage, expressing fiendish regret that more people were not killed and that he was not able to carry out further more bloody outrages. Ho will bo tried. The Manchester ship canal has been completed. Manchester Is about forty miles inlaud from Liverpool, and can now be reached by water in ten hours after reaching Liverpool. The difference in freight charges on importations for the 7,500,000 people living in the vicinity of Manchester promises to revolutionize the trade of Liverpool, and a fight between the two cities is likely to result.