Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is reported in Moscow that 100 persons -svere drowned near the village of Ozery by the capsizing of a large raft on the river Okc. Edgar Salt as, the author, was married at Paris to Miss Elsie Welsh Smith, granddaughter of John Welsh, of Philadelphia, formerly United States ml litter to Great Britain. A dispatch received at Adelaide, South Australia, from Coolgardie, the center of tho new goldfields, announces that a whole block of buildings there was burned by a tire which stnrlejl through the upsetting of a lump. It is estimated that the damage done will amount to $1,250,000. The British steamer Napier, belonging to North Shields, bound from Cronstadt for Itotterdnm, was in collision off the Island of Aaland With the British steamer Livonia, of Leith. The lutter vessel sank and fourteen of her crew were drowned in spite of the efforts of the Napier's crew, who, however, succeeded iu rescuing ten men. Bogota is clamoring for the withdrawal of the British minister, Jenuer. The press clearly reflects the i>oular excitement in its expression of the hope that Jenner’s relations with the railway eontractors, which were not before exitosed, will persuade the British Government that it is nil injury to Colombia to retain him in office at Bogota. The mail steamer from Kingston, Jamaica, brought te Halifax an account by ail American citizen, who was a passenger on board the steamer Aleue of the Atlas line, of the firing upon it by a Spanish gunboat while passing the eastern end of The Amerienn says the gunboat, when slightly south of Cape Maysi lighthouse, fired on the Alene, and wheii the latter hove to the gunliont made for the nearest headland, increasing to full speed, evidently disinclined to come nearer or give any explanation of its action. _ _ The Treasury Department has received through the Secretary of State and

the Spanish minister the substance of a telegram from the Spanish consul at Key West stating in effect that another filibustering expedition is fitting out at Pina Reef, one of the Florida keys. Leaders and a number of men have left for there. The Cincinnati is said tq be at Key West. Assistant Secretary Wike has sent telegraphic copies of the Spanish minister’s notes to the collectors of customs at*New Orleans, Key West and Tampa, (with instructions for them to consult the United Statcs -attorncy and the officers of the" nearest revenue cutters with a' view to f preventing any violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. Gonzales de Qnesada, secretary of the Cuban revolutionary party, with headquarters in New York, has been in-Wash-, ington recently on private business. lie did not see Secretary Olney, nor we’re any steps taken toward securing the recognition of the Cuban insurgents as belligerents, The policy of the Cubans in seeking recognition of the United States has been outlined substantially as follows: No application will be made to the executive branch of the government until Con* gress assembles. It is the feeling that even if the executive authorities wetedis? posed to recognize the Cubans, the action would involve such grave responsibility that the.(executive hfaiiclr-Wonld desirc to have the co-operation -and support of 'Congress. Care will be taken also to seethat there is uniformity in the steps proposed to Congress. In this way the mistakes made at the time of the last Cuban uprising will be avoided. At that time there were no less than forty different Cuban resolutions referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, proposing recognition, arbitration and many oth>r plans, all intended to favor Cuba. In the end this diversity of proposals prevented an agreement on any one course.