Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Gen. Tao, of the Chinese army, has cominitscd suicido because of the defeat at Wei-Hal-Wei. Censorship has been established at San Josbjde Guatemala on telegraph messages for places in Guatemala. 4Mr Gladstone, w ; ho is in Paris, appears to bo in splendid health and takes active exercise, but Is carefully guarded from vis Itors, who call on him In great numbers. A plot of two Nicaraguan envoys to kidnap or poison Clarence, the deposed Mosquito chief, has been discovered. The ox-chief is constantly guarded now by do tectives. A public meeting attended by 20,000 persons has been held at Rio Janeiro in celebration of President Cleveland’s decision in favor of Brazil as against the Argentine Republic in the matter of the claim to jurisdiction over the Territory of Missiones. Miss Annie Boecker. the only woman saved from the Elbe, was granted an audience by Queen Victoria and the Empress Frederick of Germany, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, Feb. 11. Her Majesty and Empress Frederick wore deeply interested in the story told by Miss Boecker and expressed a desire to see her. This was equal to a command. and Monday Miss Boecker started for Osborne House to visit their Majesties. The royal yacht was placed at the disposal of Miss Boecker for the purpose of the visit, and upon the arrival of the young lady at Cowes, a royal carriage was in waiting to convey her the mile and a half to Osborne.