Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — FROM FOREIGN LAND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LAND

Cardinal Gibbons has had his farewell audience with the pope. Denmark intends to construct a great: naval port on the island of Bornholm. Many Inhabitants and 100 horses at Vishner-Volotchok, Russia, perished by fire. Official dispatches received at Berlin,, deny the existence of a Franco-Russian written alliance. The family residence of the Duke and Duchess of Fife, Mar lodge, Braemer, ha* been destroyed by fire. A fire in the Victoria warehouse, Berlin,, destroyed the buildings and their involving a loss og 1,400,000 marks. The Spanish Chamber of Deputies rejected by a vote,,of 69 to 53 a proposal to abolish the export duty on grain. The French League of Patriots continues to organize Meetings to protest against the participation of France in th* approaching celebrations at Kiel. Chili is to coin 10,000,000 silver dollars per annum and issue gold in $6, $lO and S2O pieces. Silver is not td be a legal tender In amounts above SSO, but the mint will exchange gold for silver. The Japanese minister to Pekin and the mikado’s consul genei&l to Shanghai are Installed In their respective cities. The Chinese received them pleasantly. The Japanese flag flies over each headquarters.