Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Prince Alexander Von Hohenlohe, tho youngest son of the German Chancellor, is betrothed to the Princess Emannola, widow of Prince George of Salm-Shraun-fels. Tlie Prince was born in 1862, and is a member of the Reichstag. Tho Pope was eighty-five years old, March-2. He gave a reception in honor of tite seventeenth anniversary of his coronation, which took place March 3, 1878. The Pope is in excellent health. Dispatches from Pekin to the London Times. March 6. state that Viceroy Li Hung Chang has been restored to imperial favor and appointed as a peace envoy to Japan. Japan has accepted Li’s credentials and the great Chinaman, accompanied by Gen. John W. Foster, will proceed to Hiroshima nt once and negotiate for peace. The influenza is Increasing in violence In London. Mortality is very large among the well-to-do classes, while the distress ip tho poorer quarters is unparalleled. Resident members attribute the epidemic to a lack of what people in tho United States are accustomed to regard as the most ordinary precautions. The English people do not know how to prepare for cold because they seldom have such winters as this season has furnished. A dispatch from Odessa says that Madame Modjeska, tho well known actress, hits bean forbidden to appear at the Warsaw Theater because while at Chicago she lectured at the World’s Fair on Russia’s oppression of Poland.