Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Rev. C. F. Gates, offCbicago, has been elected president of Euphrates College, ~at Harpoot, Turkey. - The Duke of Orleans, head of the French Royalist family, has resigned all claim to the French throne. Newspapers announce that the cotton firm of Staub & Guyer, of Cornigliano, near, Genoa, Italy, has failed for over 1,000,000 lire. w ' Fire at Hooge Zwaluwe, Brabant, destroyed forty-three houses. Fifty families have been rendered homeless. No loss of life is reported. The Moscow Gazette is informed that Japan has con seated to accept 30,000,000 taels as indemnity for the relinquishment of the Liao Tung peninsula.V According to a Kingston dispatch Capt. Gen. Campos has written a letter declaring that the struggle against the Cuban insurrection is hopeless and that the eon- - ceding of autonomy is the only means by which Spain can avoid losing the island. It is reported at Hong-Kong that all the members of the Ivu-Cheng commission are in good health, and it is said that the Chinese officials are assisting actively and thoroughly iu the investigation being made into the recent massacre of missionaries. Ten Vegetarians, it is added, have already Wen convicted, and the trial of others is proceeding. There - is-sal(L to be no danger of any fresh disturbances in that district during the sitting of the commission. The Paris Estafette protests against statements made in some of the American naners relative to the sentence and imprisonment of ex-Consul AValler, saying that if Frenchmen sold arms to the enemies of the United States. Americans would never tolerate any interference on the part of the Cabinets of Europe. “Moreover, our line of conduct should be clearly marked,” continues the Estafette. “We need not pay any attention to the idle complaints of these American papers. ludeed, Waller ought to have been immediately shot for his glaring treason.”