Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

4 The French Chamber of Deputies eonrened Tuesday. Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife vre at Yokohama. Yellow fever is raging on the west coast »f Central America. 2lt is now reported that the Ameer of Afghanistan has the gout. Six men were killed by a powder explosion at Athens, Monday. Sanchez, the Mexican bandit chief, was ihot to death by the police, Oct. 22. Friday’s dispatches from Livadia state that the Czar is apparently much better. English anarchists are vacating their haunts at London and proceeding to the United States. Guatemala and Mexico may go to war. Troops are being massed on the frontier hy both powers. Costa Rica has succeeded In negotiating In London the loan with which she intends io complete her railroads. The Chilian government has granted imnesty to all persons accused of politi:al crimes prior to Aug. 28,1889. There is a great feeling between Conlervatives and the Liberals In the United States of Colombia. The former, or Catholic party, are said to be well armed and prepared to resist the uprising believed to ae Imminent.

The Austrian government has notified ;he porte that until an Inquiry is made nto his antecedents it cannot accept Hour! Bey as the new Turkish ambassalor. The Czar lingers in about the same conlition in which ho has been for some tim< cast. Officials are said to bo much dissatisfied with Prof. Zacharin, the. Czar’s phydcian, and ho is charged with incompeicncy. A dispatch from Yokohama, says thaf iliree thousand houses have been iestroyed by a succession of violent •arthquake shocks. As far as known 25( fives have been lost, and a large numbei if people have been injured. The authorities at Shanghai have asked ill foreign consuls to instruct foreigners lot to go into the eountry on business oi pleasure, as tho soldiers of the Kansu province would probably not understand lhe reason of their presence. Information lias been received at the Vatican that a number of mission stations ii China havo been destroyed and theii Inmates massacred. Other Christians ilso have been threatened. The powers vill be requested by tho Vatican to take steps for the protection of its workers Id ihe Chinese mission fields.

The Paris Figaro asserts that ROnmania las joined the triple alliance, composed oi .\ustria, Italy and Germany, and declares liiat the visit of tho King of Servia to Vienna and Berlin was in contemplation if a still further change in the Dreijiind. 4 It has been decided that the Reichstag vill open on Nov. 15, and this event will je combined with the formal laying of the :orner-stone of the new Reichstag buildng. which is now nearly completed. The Cmpcror will make a speech upon this iccasion.