Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Hawaiian congress has ratified the cable contract made by President Dole with 'A. 8. Spaulding, who will ask the next congress for in annual subsidy of $250,000. , > The Chinese officials at Ku Cheng have positively refused to allow the American Consul, J. C. Hixson, and the British (Jon-

■ul, R. W. Mansfield, opportunity to Investigate the massacre of missionaries: there. The Paraguay Government has signed an agreement for the settlement of the foreign debt.- From January next it pays interest at the rate of 5 per cent., which will be increased one-half per cent, every three years until 1908, when 3 per cent, will be paid until the extinction of the debt. A Singapore letter to the London Times says that consequent upon thedegislative retention of the silver guilder at the old value, which is about double the intrinsic value in the Netherlands, coining factories' Ifave been established in China, and the -export of guilders thence yields a handsome profit. It is estimated that two million of such counterfeit coins are already in circulation and the evil already threatens to increase.

Another outrage has been committed near Foo Cbow, China. The American mission has been attacked by a large and infuriated mob armed with various weapons The chapel and school were wrecked and four native scholars were fatally wounded, while the foreign teacher escaped. There is a strong antiforeign feeling in Foo Chow, which is spreading among the populace, who are parading with cries of “Drive- out-the foreign devils.” The navy department has been informed by Commander Perry of his action in not saluting the French flag at Tamatave. His course meets the approval of the department. Tamatave is not a French port. Consul Wetter, who represents the United States, is credited to Madagascar, and in the official register of the State Department the representatives of the United States in Madagascar are not listed under the head of France, but of Madagascar.