Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Cholera is reported at Moji, southern Japan. The condition of the Duke of Orleans, who broke his leg on Friday last while out hunting, is serious. A slight attack of pneumonia is complicating matters. Evidence before the coroner's jury at Lowestoft showed that the mate and the lookout of the steamship Crathie were not at their posts when that vessel ran down and sank the Elbe. It is learned on good authority that Great Britain has agreed to the proposed settlement of herdispute with Nicaragua if the payi\tqj/or the indemnity is guaranteed. It is believed that the affair is practically settled. United States Consul General Penfield, at Cairo, makes the surprising statement that Egypt, in proportion to population, has more railway mileage and better service than Austria, Hungary, Spain or Portugal, and it is all Government property, with the exception of a few short lines. Au English syndicate has about concluded negotiations for the Portland Consolidated, the City and Suburban nnd the East Side Railways at Portland, Ore., comprising a mileage of 128 miles of electric lines. These three roads represent an outlay of about $3,000,000, and it is understood that the purchase price will be close to that figure. The Paris Gutilois announces that Russia has invited France nnd Germany to sign a joint note stating their objections to the treaty of peace arranged at Shimoneseki bet wet'll the representatives of China nnd Japan, and that the latter country be notified that the fact of her ignoring this note wilt warrant armed intervention upon the part of the three powers which sign it. There was a crowded meeting at London Monday of the shareholders of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. Sir Henry Tyler, the president, announced that on account of the majority of proxies against him he placed his resignation in \ttie hands of the company. The meeting

waaveiw noisy, and finally adjourned until «iext Tuesday in order to enable the ’ shit reßblffefS tdteppiilnt a" &gisr.±asrd of directors. The London foreign office publishes a table giving" the number of divorces in foreig n con nt ries yea rly for the last ten years, the figures having been specially gathered by members of the consular -uorps^-In.-the, whole. of-Great. .Britain during 1894 but 500 divorces were applied for, iviiiic- in Germany the total was nearly 7,000, and in France 5,700. The State of Massachusetts shows up with one divorce to every twenty-tvyo marriages. A correspondent of the North China News, writing from NewUJhivahg, asserts ajid. quotes Europeans as authority that the Japanese!roops, whonth ey entered Denshodai, murdered and wounded prisoners and many of the peaceful popl;Uiouassertcdtliat.a«teur.aftei’.the.batT tie ended not a wounded, man was to be seen, but there were many bodies with bayonet wounds in addition to gunshot wounds. More than 1,000. Chinese were dead and many of the bodies were mutilated. In Manchuria cholera has appearbut mff in- so ,three tening a form', and the latest reports are reassuring. Strenuous efforts are being made to prevent the disease from spreading. The town of Ujina, near Hiroshima, has been isolated and a most rigid quarantine regulation is everywhere enforced. There has also been an epidemic of smallpox in Y’ama--rashi. prefecture, the. n umber of cases being 3,000.