Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Spanish troops in Cuba a.** being mobilized at Santiago de Cuba, Prince Bismarck received on his birthday 8,390 telegrams, ’ifith a total of 277,697 words, in addition to 50,000 letters and 115,000 postal cards. Gen. Mjrtinez Campos, with a couple of, million dollars in cash and a lot of Spanish troops is now on the ocean en route to Cuba to put down the alleged rebellion. the first timc in the history of the Mexican Republic, the national budgel for the fiscal year, beginning July 1, next, does not show a deficit. The budget committee has presented its report before Congress, and reports an excess over expenditures of SIOO,OOO. The libel suit ot Oscar Wilde vs. the Marquis of Queensberry, at London, came to an end, Friday, the plaintiff withdrawing. The jury, under instructions of the judge, returned a verdict of “not guilty,” , Which was coupled with the statemeni that the charges of Queensberry against Wilde of immoral and obscene conduct .with men were true in fact. It was announced that Wilde, who is a poet of world-wide reputation, would be prosecuted. The case has attracted great attention, the evidence being unprintable because of its obscenity.