Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — FOREIGN, [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN,

Cholera exists at Archangel. Russia. The drought in portions of Italy is serious. ; ; Gen. Eguss Quiza has been elected President of Paraguay, to succeed ex-President Gonzales, whose term has expired while he is in exile.The Czar’s health is said to be improving slightly. Joseph Trnskey has been sentenced at Sandwich, Ont., to hang Dec. 14 for the murder of a police officer last spring. His trial took but three hours. M. Buchfmont, radical, has been elected, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies to succeed M. Casimir-Perler, now President of the Republic. Emperor William hasj issued an ordci thanking the officers of the navy for the pains they took during the recent nava; maneuvers and for the completeness of the movements of tho German warships. 4 It is said that Premier Crisp! is ready tc make any concession to the church compatible with the maintenance of Italy as a Sovereignty dver^vtTry^oorbf’Tlie m soK' but Italy will not concede temporal pbwei to the Popo. Dispatches received from the German colony in southwest Africa say that Majoi Leutweln, on August 27, stormed Chief Witbois’s camp at Naukluft. Chief Witbois retreated and afterwards sued foi peace. The German loss was nine killed and eleven wounded. The Tong Ilaks, a powerful religious sect of Korean rebels, have attacked the Japanese troops at Taiku, in southern Korea. Reinforcements have been sent to the Japanese from Seoul. The Tong Baks constitute one of the most powerful revolutionary elements in Korea. Thej ascribe the precarious condition of Korear trade and commerce to the presence oi foreigners. The Tong Ilaks, early in tin year, undertook the task of ridding Korea of foreigners, and threatened the Japanese as well as the people of other nationalities. Last year, incited by the Tong Ilaks, thirty thousand Koreans threatened to march on the Korean capital and foreigners therefrom. The movement was suppressed, but the feeling which then existed led to the disturbances which eventually brought about th< war between China and Japan,