Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

President Pcixoto announces that the differences between Brazil and Portugal have been amicably settled, Isaac Pittman, the originator of the system of shorthand which bears his name, has been knighted by Queen Victoria, Late advices from China report that on April J. a great fire broke out in the city of Schuching, and 2,500 houses were destroyed. _ Six anarchists, convicted of complicity with Pallas to assassinate Gen. Campos, at Barcelona. Spain, were shot at that place, Monday. The great Manchester ship canal was formally opened by Queen Victoria, Monday. Her Majesty arrived at 4:30 p. m. and drove through eight miles of the principal thoroughfares, which were lavishly decorated in honor of the event. King Alexander, of Servia, has suspended the Constitution and restored the one of 1860. He denounced the existing Constitution in a proclamation. He also appointed a new Council of State. It is reported at Berlin thatex-Chancel-lor Leist, the German official who is charged with many atrocities during his administration of the Cameroons colony, West Africa, has fled from the Cameroons, and that he is now on his way to the United States. 4 There is a revolution in Corea. Forty government officials have already been seized and put to death. The rebels are rapidly gaining strength, and it is feared that the government will be overthrown and all criminals set free. The volcano on the island of Stromboli, one of the Sipari islands, lying to the north of Sicily, is showing great activity. The eruption is increasing in violence, and there are frequent earthquakes. The people living on the island have left their houses in terror. Sir George R. Dibbs, Premier of New South Wales, in a speech at Tamworth, declared that the government would adhere to the policy of protection. He' said he objected to a plan of federation which -would involve seperato Australian States. In such a scheme lay the germ of a disturbance similar to that which occurred in the United States between the Northern and Southern States. One Parliament and one Governor would suffice for the whole of Australia, but the Change must not increase the burden of taxpayers. Sir George said he would shortly aubmit to Parliament a scheme embodying this proposition. i