Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOREIGN.

: .Cholera has broken out at Mecca. • Frederic William Farrar* D. D., F. R S.,.archdeacon of Westminster, has been Appointed dean of Canterbury. The ex-. Speaker of the British House ol Commons, the Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, has been created a viscount. There are said to be 27,000 Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands, 11,000 of them being laborers on sugar plantations. Joaquin Miller, the *‘poet of the Sierras,” is accused of paving betrayed a young woman of Honolulu, and to have left her in destitute circumstances. He makes no explicit denial of the charge. The non-union miners at Minersville, f)„ were driven from work by the strikers, Sa tn rd ay afternoon. T ““ The Panama Canal Company will dispense with native policemen shortly, it i> reported, and thereby save #42,000 a year The body of Gen. Antoine Maceo is reported to have been found near the field where the battle of Palmarito was fought. Since the discovery the insurgents nc iqnger deny the death of their chief. A rebel leader, close to the councils of th« party, says that the promoters of the revolution have known for’ten days of th« death of Maceo, but they determined to keep-the fact a secret for fear of its disastrous effect upon the insurgent cause. Even the cause of Maceo’s death was known. He was not killed by the Spaniards, but died by his own sword. Maceo was disheartened from the moment of his 1 landing in Cuba. He expected to find th< island tn arms and ready to follow him The handful he led at Palmarito was the largest force he was.able to muster, anc when defeat came, and with it the loss ol Crombet, his chief adviser, the rebel General took his own hfe rather than fall into the hands of his Spanish enemies. Queen Victoria arrived at Darmstadt from Nice, Wednesday, and attended ths christening of the daughter of the Grano Duchess of Hesse, formerly Princess Victoria Melita of Sate - Coburg - Gotha 1 daughter of the Duke-pf Edinburgh, second son of her Majesty. The baby wai born on March 11, last. The Princess wai married to Grand Duke Ernest of Hess: st Coburg, in April a year ago, in th< presence of Queen Victoria, Emperoi 1 William and other distinguished people. : The baby just christened is the,seventieth direct descendant of Queen Victoria. An extensive tobacco factory at Mon- ; Lreal was partially destroyed by fire Thursday evening. The loss will react half a million, on which there is no insur ance. There were no fire escapes, on tb« building and a panic ensued among tbi. employes. Many were rescued by tin firemen, while others made desperate leaps to adjoining roofs and to the. ground Numbers of girls and women were in jured, some being mangled in a bn-rihi, manner. Five of those taken to the hos pital will die. Others are supposed t< have received fatal injuries,

Territory acquired by Japan under th terms of the recent agreement at Shimon asekf. Shaded portions indicate thene: Japanese acquisition' ,