Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Duke of Orleans, head of the royal house of France, has so far recovered from the injuries which he received while out hunting as to be able to leave Seville for London. The French steamer Dom Pedro, bound for Carrilo, Spain, has been wrecked off Currubedo. Eighty of those on board were drowned. The disaster was caused by the bursting of a boiler. A special from Athens says two Armenians, editors of the Journal Vatan, have been arrested there for blackmailing the Turkish minister and publishing articles insulting to the sultan. The Loudon Daily News correspondent at Berlin telegraphs that paper that there iff a belief in some quarters that the Formosau republic is a Chinese maneuver, backed by France and Russia, to trick Japan out of the fruits of her victory. It is feared that it will reopen the war. Advices received at Constantinople from Moosh state that the residence occupied by the French. British and Russian envoys has been forcibly entered by the Turkish gendarmes, who attempted to arrest a servant of the envoys. The gendarmes used abusive lauguuge and were with difficulty expelled. A special dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette from its correspondent at Shanghai snys that alarming rumors are current at Shanghai. It is stated thnt a renewal of hostilities is imminent. The viceroy of Formosa is said to have rebelled against the Government of Peking. Tie Japanese ships are reported to have been cleaned for action, and the French ships at Tamsul, Formosa, are also said to have been prepared for fighting. In addition, rumors of Russian intervention are current at Shanghai, and steamers have been ordered to Tien-Tsin with provisions in view of the probability of Russian hostility. Captain General Martinez de Campos

has assured the newspapers of the province of Puerto Principe, Cuba, that the Government will contribute the snm of $20,000 per month for the construction of the railroad between Puerto Principe, the capital of that province, and the port of Santa Cruz, pn the western coast of that province. The Government has decided to undertake .this work in order to give employment-to about 700 laborers," in view of the fact that it is determined to finish the war soon, even if it is necessary to bring more troops from Spain for that -purpose. The captain-general has received a dispatch from the Government at Madrid saying the Spanish minister of war has ready 25,000 additional troops for transportation to the island of Cuba. But do Campos was asked to advise the Gov--ernment first whether reinforcements were necessary. He replied saying •no more troops were needed to suppress the insurrectioh at present.