Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1894 — FOREIGN, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOREIGN,

Fifty thousand persons have been made homeless by the earthquakes in the district of Reggio, Italy.

Princess Bismarck, the wife of Prince Bismarck, died at Varzin, Nov. 27, after a iong illness. At a meeting of the Anglo-Armenian Association in London, the British Government was denounced for apathy regarding Turkish atrocities. A royalist plot at Honolulu, details of which were brought by the Oceanic which reached San Francisco. Nov. 27. attempted to overthrow the republic, but the scheme was prematurely exposed and failed. On November 15, the British Commissioner formally presented to President Dole an autograph letter from Queen Victoria recognizing the Hawaiian republic. * Managua advices indicate a grave situation in the Mosquito reservation. The British Minister, Mr. Gosling, has notified Nicaragua that Great Britain refuses to recognize the Nicaraguan government at Bluefields. After an exchange of views. Minister Gosling telegraphed to Port Limon for a British warship to come at once to Bluefields. It Is reported that the Nicaraguan canal project is at the bottom of the matter, and serious trouble is feared. According to a dispatch from Shanghai, a sensation was caused there by a memorial to the throne signed by over 120 high officials. Impeaching Li Hung Chang, charging him with corruption, peculation and deceptiqn. 'J,'he memorial also says that Li Hung £hang rejoiced at the Japanese victories and prevented the Chinese from achieving . success. Ho is said to have represented that China was prepared for war. when he knew the contrary was the case. Li Hung Chang Is said to be implicated with Prince Kung, the Em-

i peror’s uncle, president of the Tsung LI Yamen and president of the admiralty, who was recently appointed dictator, and with Tatoai Wu, the commander of the Chinese forces at Port Arthur. The popularity of the new Czar increases daily. Nothing has been done to popularize him so much as his familiar ways, and his* dispensing witir military guards around the palace. The order withdrawing the troops from the line of march on his wedding day has produced a good effect. The crowds were unable to believe that they would be allowed to stand and witness the procession without the invariable hedge of soldiers, and when they saw that this was a fact they were frantic with delight, and expressed their satisfaction in a thousand ways. There is no doubt that a 'marked change has taken place everywhere in StTPetersburg life in consequence of the Czar’s admirable policy. ’