Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Joan of Arc has been beatified by the Pope. 1 Canada has a tariff fitcht. Parliament has been summoned to convene March 15. The report is again revivoi that Cardinal Lodochowski is contemplating resigning as prefect of the congregation of propaganda fide. A “crank” in London has written a letter In which ho threatens to kill Queen Victoria. Ho has been captured and sent to an Insane asvium. * Admiral da Gama “got It in the neck" fn an engagement at Rio de Ja*nciro. Friday. and is reported to be in a critical condition. The Princess Ena. tho little daughter of Prince iienry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice, who met with a serious accident In the grounds at Osborne, Isle of Wight, and who, it was feared, was fatally injured, is recovering. Sin the French Chamber of Deputies, Monday, tihere was an interesting debate on the proposal to increase the duty on wheat. The Chamber rejected, by a vote of 304 to 174. tho motion to empower tho goverment to levy duties in advance, receiving legislative authority, in order to prevont speculation In wheat. The report of tho committee recommending raising the dyty to S francs was then read. A Loudon cable of the 15th says: A small bottle has been picked up on tho beach of Gigha, one of the Hebrides islands, containing a piece of paper on which, written with a pencil, was tho following: September. 1803. Sinking mid-Atlantic; Hornhead; collision; iceberg. Mate. The steamship Hornhoad was a British vessel owned by tho Ulster Steamship Company, of Belfast. She sailed from Baltimore on Aug. 19, and Hampton Roads •n Aug. 23. for Duouii. and until to-uay nothing was afterward heard of her.