Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Thirteen men and women killed by lightning near Schwetz, West Prussia, Saturday. M. Buette, a French engineer, was recently captured by Brazilian troops, forced to dig his own grave and then shot. The German government will reject Herr Dowe’s bullet-proof coat. It was pierced by a bullet from a regulation rifle at Spandau. 6 Earthquake shocks have been felt in Macedonia, Old Servia and eastern Bulgaria. Many houses at Varna, Bulgaria, have been damaged and a number of people have been killed as a result of the shocks. It is now certain that 140 persons went down with the Italiam steamer Columbia, which collided with the Russian steamer Vladimir in the Black sea a few days ago. All the evidence badly inculpates the Russian seamen, who deliberately abandoned the Columbia and her crew and passengers to their fate, although the vessel floated an hour and a qparter after the collision. In the French Chamber of Deputies during the discussion of the clause in the anti-anarchist measure providing for a restriction being placed upon the reports published of the trials of the anarchists, one of the deputies remarked that the press should not be considered a privileged trade. Thereupon the newspaper men present in the gallery raised such a disturbance that the President of the Chamber ordered the gallery cleared, and suspended tho slttin£ whde this was being done. Later the press representatives were invited to return, but declined.