Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Wayue MaeVeagli, United States minister to Italy, has arrived in London. There were 10G cases of cholera and 33 deaths in the Department of the Volga, Russia, from April 14 to April 27. The republic proclaimed in Formosa has collapsed and President Tang has escaped. The Chinese forces in North Formosa are disorganized at the approach of the Japanese. A Tegucigalpa, Honduras, dispat,ch says: Fugitive Schnaubelt, alias Itipdskopf, the man who is said to have thrown the bomb at the Chicago haymarket riot, was badly wounded in a fracas at Pinalajo Ville. ll* will die. It is officially announced fatalities resulted from the cloudburst over the Wurtemberg portion of the Black Forest. At Ballingen alone thirty houses were demolished by the rise of the IJiver Eyach, and many other buildings were damaged. > Advices received in Constantinople from Jiddah, Arabia, a seaport of Mecca and the scene of the recent murderous assault on the consular officers of Great Britain, Russia and France, announcer that a panic prevails there and that it is feared the Bedouins wHI attack the town. The latter are held responsible for the attack upon the consuls, which resulted in the death of the British vice-consul, and a 'number of them were arrested in consequence. This has caused an angry feeling among the Bedouins, who demand the release of those apprehended, and threaten to use force if their demnnd is not complied with. The situation is so serious that the Europeans of Jiddah are hastily seeking refuge on board the merchant vessels in the harbor, taking with them all they possibly can of their belongings. It is also stated in the advices from Jiddah that the arrival there of the British Mediterranean , squadron, numbering seventeen warships of vnrious classes, is anxiously expected even by the Turkish authorities, as the garrison is very weak. There was a tremendous cloudburst over the Wurtemburg portion of the Black Forest district in Germany, causing destruction of property. The downfall of wuter caused the river Eyach so rise, and many houses at Ballingen, Frommern, Dirrwaugen and Lanien were swept away. Xfauy persons are missing, and it is feared they were drowned in the flood. Ten persons were drowned at Ballingen, seven were killed at Frommern gnd nine persons at 1 * missing in addition from the last-named place. At Lfflnfen ten persons were killed. The Black Forest is a mountainous region of southwestern Germany,

in the grand duehy of Baden and the west of Wurtemburg, separating the basins of the Rhine and Neckar, In manyplaces it is 3,700 feet above the sea, and the Feldberg, 4 > 675 feet high, ls she ldftiest mountain in western Germany. The Danube, Neckar, Kinzig, Murg, Eltz and other rivers rise in this region. The inhabitants are mainly engaged in rearing live stock, trading in timber and manufacturing wooden clocks, toys and woolen fabrics.