Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Sofia correspondent of the London Times telegraphs that M. StamboulofTs grave has been desecrated, the police arriving just in time to prevent the exhuming of the remains. The condition of the crops of Europe is reviewed in the report of the European agent of the Agricultural Departrneut for August. It shows fair crops in most of the countries except Great Britain. A bloody battle is reported in British Honduras between native Carihs and negro workmen building n railroud for English planters. Between five and six hundred negroes were killed and almost as many injured, while the Carihs had close

upon 300 killed and twice a* many wounded, some mortally. A census of tha British Parliament just assembled shows that only 190 out of 668 are new members. As to occupations, 150 are lawyers, 54 manufacturers, 88 mechanics, 10 professors in universities, 31 journalists, 12 skilled laborers, 19 Brew - ers, distillers and wine merchants, 46 army and navy officers in aetive®serviee, 146 gentry, peers’ sons and peers’ brottlcrs. - ; ; ' ‘ " . ':■* . ; ~ Constantinople dispatch: The Vali of Saloniea* telegraphs that a Bulgarian baud, numbering about 1,000 men, attacked the village of Janakli. in the district of Kirdjali, and burned 290 houses. The Bulgarians are also said to have killed twenty-five of the inhabitants of Janakli. The Vaji of, Adrianopje has sent a similar dispatch, but thinks the accounts of the affair are probably exaggerated. The New York World says: “The Novedades, an organ of the Spanish Government, makes the official announcement from Madrid that Spain will have 156,272 soldiers tinder arms in Cuba by Sept. 5. tVhen those re-enforeements ar“rivo there' wiUBeTO,272 regulars"arid 80,000. volunteers. The regulars are classified as follows: Fifty-nine thousand nine jifindred infantry, 3,876 cavalry, 1,803 artillery, 1*415 engineers, 2,700 marine infantry, 976 military police, 4,400 civil guards, 1,152 guerrillas. A semi-official note has been published at Paris stating that tuberculosis is slioyn to exist in New York State, and that New' Y'ork cattle have been refused entry into Connecticut, and also that anthrax is ravaging New’ Jeusey herds, W’hile a serious disease, believed to be Texas fever, has been discovered in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The note then proceeds: “These facts fully justify the measure taken Feb. 24 of checking the import of American cattle into France, and are the best reply to the criticisms this measure evoked.”