Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Japan will loan 3.000,000 yen to Corea. The Peruvian revolution has resulted in a provisional government. The Kaiser formally closed the session of the State council at Berlin, March 21. Belgium artisans are now making an artificial cotton from wood pulp that threatens to revolutionize the cotton market. Herr Levitzow, President of the Reichstag, resigned because that body rejected a motion to congratulate Bismarck upon iris birthday anniversary. John N. Waller, formerly United States consul at Tamatave, Madagascar, has been sentenced by a French court-martial to twenty years’ imprisonment. Queen Victoria witnessed the “Battle of Flowers” at Nice, March 21. Miss Van Buren, of Now York, was awarded the first prize, her vehicle having been transformed with (lowers into a horn of plenty. ;, " ■. A shipload of dynamite exploded at Salmoutii-on-the-Rhine, March 20. Three other vessels were sunk. The disaster was appalling. The destruction of houses and other property was unparalleled. At least eleven porsons were killed. Tho cause of the explosion is unknown. The 1 curbstone brokers of Throgmorton street, London, ordered to “movo on” by the police, resisted and a riot ensued, March 21. A prominent member of the stock exchange expostulated with the officers and was arrested. A test caso will result to determine whether the street can bo used as an open market. Tho curbstone brokers habitually block the roadway daily from 4 to 0 p. m. The bill to disestablisii tho Church of England in Wales was moved to a second reading in tho Commons, March 21, byj Herbert Smith, Homo Secretary. In tho speech supporting tho measure Mr. Smith stated that there were only 110,000 members of the established church in Wales, while there wero 338,000 dissenters.