Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

-if- : ; The City of Melbourne Bank, Victoria, has failed. Its Uapßal stock was $5,00Q,Consul Doederlein, at Leipsic, reports that plows are 'operated by electricity mnch cheaper than by steam. Sixty lives are believed to have been lost by the sinking of the steamer Catterthun off New South Wales. Lord Rayleigh and Professor William Ramsey, of I»ndon, have been awarded the SIO,OOO Hodgkins prize by the Smithsonian Institution awards committee for the best treatises on discoveries in air. Two welhknown British ships, one bound from Melbourne for London, and the other from Newcastle, N. S. W., to Panama, are long overdue and insurance men have given up both for lost. The bark Florence sailed from Newcastle on Jan. 26 and has not been heard from since. The supposition is that she has foundered or gene ashore on the South American coast. The Stoiieleigh therefore is How out 159 days. Havana dispatch; Gen. Campos could only muster about six hundred men on arriving at Bayamo out of the 1,500 that he claimed to have had at the fight at Peralejos. General Garcia Navarro, who went from Santiago to Manzanillo with 1,500 men and joined General La Chambre, returned a few days later minus 500 men, Moss of them had died of disease, principally of dysentery and yellow fever. It in understood that Gen. Campos has cabled home advising the government to be prepared for important and unfavorable advices in the near future; General Salceda lias been ordered back to Spain on “sick leave.” But the real reason was his massacre of unarmed Cubans. Learning that sixteen young Cubans had left Santiago to join the revolution, he had them intercepted and summarily shot. It is well-known also that he executed Cuban prisoners. The Shanghai Mercury publishes a dispatch from FooMJbow saying that the position of the Europeans is critical, owing to the open hostility of the natives and native officials. IF is added that if an outbreak occhrs the native officials will b* unable to cope with the mob. FuKhien Province is said to be in a state of rebellion, and the American mission at in that province, has been burned. The Europeans and Americans have telegraphed for gunboats to protect the foreign settlement. In an interview with- some of the survivors of the KuCheng massacre they declare that the outrage was carried out in the most diabolical manner, and that it was evidently a premeditated and carefully arranged attack, entirely unpro\;pked, made upon the occupants-of the missionary station while they were asleep. The bodies of the victims were buried at .Foo-Chow.