Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1894 — FOREIGN, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOREIGN,

Mexican troops sent against theJYaqui Indians have met with defeat in all of the engagements which, have so far taken place. Twenty-nine cases of cholera were reported at Amsterdam, Aug. 16. There is a famine in Corea. The war between China and Japan makes the situation more serious for the unfortunate natives. The Managua, Nicaragua, correspondent of the London Times telegraphs as follows: “A protocol has been signed uniting Guatemala, Nicaragua, San Salvador and Honduras into one republic, to be knowff as the Central American Republic. Costa Rica was alsd represented at the conference which discussed the proposed union, but that govemmcnt~ha? declined to sign the protocol.”

the assassin of President Carnot, was guillotined at Lyons at 4:55 a. m. on the 6th. The execution was witnessed by a arge number of people. Accounts agrc< :hat he died In abject terror although h< cried “Vive 1’ Anarchle” as he was bein? fastened down. 6 A sea serpent is a Christiana lake novelty now. Said to be 50 feel long and at big as a barrel.

CASERIO SANTO,