Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — FOREIGN, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOREIGN,

Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife are at Yokohama.. Yellow fever is raging on the west coast of Central America. It is now reported that the Ameer oi Afghanistan has the gout. Ten dynamite bombs were found near the engine of a large factory in Barcelona, where a number of anarchists were formerly" employed; It is reported that China is raising an internal 7 per cent, loan of £20,000,000. Il is still doubtful whether the Japs have landed any where in China. The Prince of Wales has presented the royal yacht squadron with twenty-one brass cannon, bearing the name of William IV, with which to fire salutes. (> A dispatch from Shanghai states thai the japs at the Yalu river tried to surprise the Chinese under cover of darkness'! but failed and retired after desultory fighting at long range. The Chinese claim that they inflicted losses upon the Jap-., anese advance guard. At the City of Mexico, Senora Verastegui has instituted suit against Colonel Romero in the sum of $41,000 for the killing of her husband, chief of the stamp department of the government. The suit will be pushed in addition to the federal proceedings against Col. Romero. The strike of the flrls in cigar factories in tho City of Mexico over the introduction of cigarette machines is spreading. A thousand employes are out. Tho striking girls slashed windows and made assaults upon the El Modelo factory, and would have captured the place, in all probability, had the police and soldiers not been dispatched to the scene.

The historian, died at LcmdoD, Saturday. Mr. Froude was born in I«18 and had filled a distinguished part in classical literature. His writings wero voluminous. Mr. Fronde’s latest works are, “The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century.’' three volumes: 187t-74; “Caesar: a Sketch” 1879; of tho High Church Revival,” and a novel published a few years ago- It dealt with Irish life, and was not successful. His “Reminiscences of Carlyslo” appeared in 1881. and the famous biography of Carlyle a few years later.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE,