Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is announced that China has Accorded full satisfaction to France for the recent attack made upon the French missions in " China. Montevideo advices say General Estevan has started with a force of cavalry for the frontier. He goes to try to suppress a revolution which was started by the Blanco party, aided by men who had been engaged in the rebellion in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Le Forban, a new torpedo boat constructed at Havre for the French government, has just completed her official speed test at Cherbourg. During the trials she accomplished 3L32 knots an hour, which is the highest 1 achwd speed recorded for this classof vessel. Herbert BurrovpyoTXondon, has written a letter annouitcing/that he has left the Theosophists’ Stoefety owing to recent disclosures whVn have convinced him that deception in file society has been rampant for years by both Messrs. Olcott and Sinnett. He says he helieveß that Mine. Blavatsky was.partially fraudulent! The tramp steamer Sylvia from Messina and Palermo has just brought 26,1)00 boxes of lemons to New York. Owing to the entire failure of the Florida crop, together with short production in Sicily,' lemons had jumped to $10.25 a box and sl2-50 a case. A box holds from 130 to 100 lemons and a case just ns many, only the fruit in ihe latter is largtr and finer. The steamer Victoria from Malnga, Spain, is due with 22,000 boxeH of lemons. Prices will drop. The nominal rate is from $8 to $4 a box. Last year Florida supplied New York with 150,000 boxes, nnd the total consumption In the metropolis was 2,000,000 boxes, or about 140 lemons for every man, womnn and child. A spell of intense beat in England cul-

minated Tuesday in a sudden drop of 25 degrees in temperature. -This was followed by a heavy gale, which caused, much damage along the coasts. Two steamers were driven ashore on. the treacherous Goodwin Sands. At Ilfracombe, on the north coast o| Devonshire, six would-be life-savers were drowned while attempting to rescue the crew of the ketch Arabella, which was ashore in hi dangerous position. Several vessels are reported ashore on the Gore' Sands. Their - crews have been rescued by the lifeboatmen. Three fishing-smaeks bailing from Blackpool foundered, and in spite of the efforts which the lifeboat-men made to assist them five of the fishermen were drowned. Irving M. Scott, president of the Union iron works, is coming home on the China, which is due in San Francisco next week, but he is not bringing any contracts to build batleships' for the Japanese Government. On board the China is also Gen. \Villiams, one of the agents of the Cramps, who was in Japan for the same purpose as Mr. Scott and whose mission met with the same result. The Japanese Government has not let any contracts for additions to its navy to American or other foreign shipbuilders for the reason that until the imperial diet meets in November the Minister of Marine will not know just what money will be at his service. Even after appropriations are made it is doubtful if any contracts will be made with American shipbuilders, at least not for some time, the reason being that the people of the Mikado’s empire have become suddenly impressed with the idea that they can construct their own battleships and cruisers. This decision, of course, shuts out British and German shipbuilders as well from a slice of the Japanese maritime patronage. A slight earthquake shock Wednesday added to the reign of terror prevailing at Constantinople. This, with the* bloodshed and rioting, the imprisonment of about 500 Armenians, the killing of prisoners in eoid blood and the presence of troops under arms at all points, is well calculated to excite even the most phlegmatic Turk. The rioting and blood-letting which began on Monday was renewed on Tuesday evening, in spite of all the precautions taken by the authorities. On Tuesday the principal rioting was the work of the Softas, Mohammedan theological students, who chased and beat with bludgeons every Armenian they met. During Tuesday night a mob- of- Softas and Turks attacked the house of a leading Armenian, storming the building, threatening its destruction and killing several persons who were unable to escape. This mob also sacked a case frequented ,by Armenians, and twenty of these unfortunate people who were found there were beaten to death with bludgeons. To the disgrace of the authorities not a single policeman appeared on the scene and no attempt was made to save the lives of the Armenians,