Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Bismarck is suffering from the great heat. | A receiver has been appointed for Paul ' Boynton’s water show at London. I Dr. Cornelius Herz, the Panama lobbyist, was sentenced to five years imprisonment and to pay a fine of 3.000 francs. The Japanese minister at London, Aug. 1, officially notified the British government that a formal declaration of war against China had been made by the Japanese government at noon of that day. I The experts who are delving into the family history of Cesario, the assassin of President Carnot, have discovered that | four of his relatives died in asylums for lunatics.

Particulars of tho sinking of the Chinese transport Kow Shing, received at London, Aug. 1, shows the greatest brutality on the part of the Japanese. Tho Japs continued to fire on the struggling victims in the water after the vessel sank. The railroad between Coatzacoalcos and Sallnax Cruz, Mex.. built by the Mexican government, has been completed. This opens up a new means of transportation between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific ocean. Cassario Santo, the assassin of President Carnot, was put on trial at Lyons. Aug. 2. The Palace of Justice was strongly guarded to prevent any possible outbreak by anarchists. Press reports of the trial, it is announced, will be edited by the judge. Juies Simon, lhe French statesman, Is reported to have had an interview, recently, with the Kaiser at Berlin. The German Emperor is reported to have said that he would regard as a madman and criminal any person whodrove the French and Gorman people to war. The trial of Santo, the assassin of Carnot. was concluded at Lyons, Aug. 3, and the prisoner was sentenced to death by the guillotine. When the death sentence was uttered. Santo exclaimed: “Vive la revolution soclaie.” Tho prisoner was immediately seized by the gendarmes and hurried toward his cell beneath the conn house.

The Japanese government has instructed its minister in London to apologize tc Great Britain for firing upon and sinking the transport Kow Shing while she wa? flying the British flag. Thfl Japanese minister has been instructed to inform Great Britain that the commander of thr Japanese cruiser did not know that th< Kow Shing was a British vessel until after the fight.

The House pension committee has recommended that a pension of 812 a month be granted to Sharp Nose, an Arraphot chief, for services as a scout in the Big Horn mountains extending over man} years. Judge David Moss, a pioneer jurist of Indiana, is dead at his home in Noblesville. He was 77 years old. Judge Mosswas admitt« dto this tiar in 1848. s Charles, son of William A. Gregory, near Monrovia, was terribly hurt by a horse rearing back and ailing ou him.