Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A strong shock of earthquake was felt at Corfu, Greece. No damage was done. The Spanish steamer Gravina, bound from Antwerp for Lisbon, has been lost during a typhoon and only two of those on board were saved. The required $2,500,000 has been raised in London for the construction of an immense irrigation dam across the Bio ’Grande at Rincon, N\ M.„ above El Paso. Word lias come from St. Lucia, West Indies, announcing that an epidemic of yellow fever has- broken but there among the British artillery. Thirty soldiers have died. —~ A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that, despite the pressure exerted by the powers, Japan persists in~declining to fix the date for the evacuation of the LiauTong peninsula and Corea. John Carter, an ex-seaman of 11. M. S. Royalist, arrived in San Francisco Friday on the steamer Australia from Honolulu. -Carter came to Hawaii from Sydney, where the Boynlist is now stationed. England, according to the seaman, took very drastic measures in the punishment of the natives of the Solomon group of islands, nnd the villages at the mouth of the river Soy were cannonaded. A landing party started out from Verne, an adjacent town, and the savages were driven miles into the interior. A number were slaughtered. For four hours Soy was under tire. The trouble and the subsequent bombardment were brought about by the murder of s Mr. Donald Guy last April and tbe subsequent murder of eight English sailors, who went ashore nt the Island Mnlaytn to enjoy a good time. The commission which has been investigating the atrocities in Armenia traversed the devastated villages hud arrived at Jellygooznu, where 120 houses were found to have been burned. The people were sheltered in miserable huts. Ample proof was found of the truth of the stories told I regarding the massacre of Armenians and | ing Wa I and setting tire to the oil. The flames, i however, failed to consume the mass ami i a stream was dam mud and diverted from Its course in order to wash away the halfburned bodies. But even this failed to obliterate the terrible evidence against the Turks, and the local authorities wero compelled to remove the remains piecemeal. The villagers bad removed the bulk of the bodies and interred them in consecrated ground before tho arrival of tbe commission at .Teilygoosan. The dread yellow fever season is on in Cuba, and its ravages will severely deplete the ranks of tbe regular troops who are unaccustomed to the climate, and who are a dissolute, careless lot of men. Then the sugar factories will be closed and the thousands of idle Cubaus will be turned

adrift into the army. The sentiment inj favor of the rebellion is growing steadily, ana the insurgent leaders *4vill tie stoutly: supported. The report has gained credence in Havana that Gen. Salcedo is dead, having been seriously wounded a few days ago. Col. Tejarizo is also reported to hoys been mortally wounded at Ramon do In's Jaguas. LiemrCol- Arizon is also badly wounded. snd in Havana it is reported his wound was received in attempting to intercept Gen. Gomez's marchto Caniagney. James Purman, who has just returned to New York from Cuba, gives some interesting information concerning the progress of the rebellion against Spanish rule. According ’to his account, Gen. Campos has a herculean task before him in bringing Cuba to a state of subjection. According to advices received in Washington, important British documents have been found at Hawaii relating to thq pending British-Venezuelan boundary question in which the United States lias, urged arbitration as a means of settlement. Assistant Surveyor General Curtis J. Lyons, of Hawaii, has examined them, and has made a map, accompanied by a statement, which, it is said, supports the Venezuelan contention, even on the evidence thus far presented by the British! Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan minister, says it is the first time that the documents sent out by the British, foreign office have been made available in the controversy.’ The records now brought to public attention by Air. Lyons were furnished to Hawaii by the British foreign office at a time when Hawaii was a monarchy and largely under British control. On comparing this with the map furnished by the foreign office twenty years ago he found that the boundary line had been entirely changed. The first map gave the line as Venezuela claims it should be. The last map shifts the line far westward and includes ns British territory about 10,000 square miles which the first map showed clearly to he Venezuelan territory. This intervening 10,000 square miles is the subject of contention.