Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Fiye thousand pilgrims attended papal mass in St. Peters. More disorders occurred in Sofia, due to the change of Cabinet. It is stated that the Irish National party will in all likelihood very soon come into possession of the fund deposited in Paris by the late Charles Stewart -Parnell and his fellow trustee of the Irish parliamentary fund. Giuseppe de Feiice, a member of the Italian Parliament, was sentenced to eighteen years’ solitary confinement lor having incited disturbances in Sicily. Senor Don Claudio Vienna, who was elected to succeed Balmacedaas President of Chile, has peen sentenced by the court in Santiago to fifteen years' exile. A celebration of the Fourth of July it being arranged for by Brazil to show hei gratefulness to the United States for support during the recent civil war. France has sued the World’s Fair Chicago, for $100,030 damages sustained by its exhibit during the manufacturers’ building fire. _ The Victorian Parliament was opened at Melbourne, Australia. May 30. The Earl of Hopetoun, Governor of the colony congratulated the people on the graduallj returning prosperity of the country. , , The American Cag in front of ths United States consul’s office in StThomas, Ont., was torn down and destroyed, Thursday night, by some members of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Toronto while under the influence of liquor. Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, D. G. A., apologized to the United States consul, Mr. Willis, for the act, but Mr. Willis would not accept the apology, and notified the heads of his department at Washington and Ottawa. The incident is looked on as merely the result of too much whisky, and while it is generally deplored by the citizens, it is hoped that nothing serious will result.