Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Czar has reduced the number of police charged with the duty of protecting his person, but ho has not abolished the secret police, as rumored. The Ptope has conferred the decoration of Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, upon Rajah Goyputee Rao in recognition of his services to Catholic missionaries. Emperor William has conferred the honorary title of professor on Herr Ludwig Pietsch, art critic of the Vossisch Zoitung, on the seventieth anniversary of his birth. The Japanese forces commanded by Field Marshal Oyama lost two officers and fifty-two men killed and had twelve offices and thirty-six men wounded in the recent engagements at New Chang. The Figaro,of Paris, recommends an international convention to forbid Atlantic steamships from crossing the banks ot Newfoundland during the fishing season, with a view to preventing collisions. The French Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, voted an expenditure of B.OOG francs for the purpose of promoting investigations into the manufacture of antitoxins, the new remedy for diphtheria. The authorities who are looking aftet counterfeiters In the City of Mexico have made some startling discoveries. It it evident there is an organized colony ol several hundred people scattered about the city making and circulating the spurious coin. Thousands of dollars have been successfully “shoved” in the past two weeks. Arrests of members of tb« band have been made almost daily, until there are now 283 of them in prison awaiting trial. The work still continue} despite the wholesale arrest of offenders.