Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Work on the Panama canal was resumed, Tuesday. Half of the city of San Domingo fa reported destroyed by a cyclone. The Czar is said to be suffering from a complication of diseases. He is thought to be insane and his sufferings are described as frightful. Fifty dead bodies are reported to have been washed ashore on the islands around Key West as a result of the great storm of the last week in September. : The trial of members of the Malavita Society, which opened at Lucera, Italy, in September, was finished, Oct. 2. Fourteen of the accused were acquitted and six-ty-eight were sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from five to ten years. Dr. Oertel, of the Hygienic Institute of Hamburg, has died from Asiatic cholera resulting from an experiment with Infected water taken from the river Vistula. Baron Albeft do ’Rdthschlld has Just given $250,009 to build and equip a pavililion in the Empress Elizabeth Hospital at Vienna for women suffering from cancer. The money constitutes the “Bettina” fund, called after the Baron’s late wife, who died after terrible sufferings from this disease. Antonio Cerevnsa, a noted scientist, has reached Oaxaca, Mex., from tho State of Tasbasco, where he has discovered some of the most wonderful and interesting ruins yet found in Mexico. While explor Inga wild and wooded valley of the San Pedro river, in that State, he came upon an ancient and deserted village, which is surrounded by eighteen pyramids. These pyramids are thirty meters high and arc constructed of brick and stone.