Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Assassins are after the Sultan of-Mo-rocco. Monaco was slightly shaken by an earthquake, Thursday. More than 1,500 cases of cholera have appeared in St. Petersburg since. July 1. Thirteen men and women killed by ■ lightning near Schwetz, West Prussia, Saturday. 4 The Samoans have sent to Emperor William a petition praying that Germany annex the islands. Burros has been elected President o Bru/i! by over 300.000 majority and Pereira Vice-President:-The Chinese plague is reported to be thirty cases a day. The bill to permit Sheffield to build a ship c jhaUto the cast coast has passed its third reading in the British House of Commons. Cholera has made its appearance on the eastern frontier of Germany, and strict measures arc being taken to stamp it out. Seven wreckers were killed by an explosion of dynamite at Portsmouth, England, while engaged in demolishing tho wreck of a yacht. In spite of the opposition of Premier Rosebery, the British House of Lords passed to second reading the bill directed against anarchists.

Russia has decided to build a railway from Sarmarcand to Ferghan, on the threshold of the Pamirs. England is building two forts to defend the passe; between the Hunza country and the I’amirs. A cable from Massowah, Egypt, states that a great battle has taken place between a large body of Dervishes and Italian troops in which the former were defeated with great loss. In the Assize Court, at Nice, an Italian workman was sentenced to six months’ imprisdiviue® forwunarking upon learning of the death of President Carnot that “it served him right. They should kil| them all. Crisp), too.” Letters'from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, confirm the reports of a brutal slaughter of prisoners by both the rebels and the ioyai troops. M. Buettc, a French engi'Tices, who was captured by Peixoto’s men, was first employed in raising the sunken war ship Aqtiidaban. He was then made to dig his own grave, after which lie was shot by his captors. The Hamburger Correspondent states tliat the German government does not propose to make reprisals in consequence of tho new American suzar tariff.—A general tariff war against the United States, it is added, would ruin th'e German export trade, and Germany will, therefore, seek to arrive at some agreement with the United States.