Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN

•The British steamer Madura, from Hamburg for Port Royal, S. lb, foundered in luTdqcean on Xov. 28. ('apt. Rosser Roomer, who disappeared from St. Louis on Xov. IS. is at ‘fill* head of 200 Americans lighting' for Cuban indevnemlenee. ' Theodore A. Havetireycr, the “sugar king, - ’ is to be made a baron. An imperial emissary is on the way from Austria with the patent of nobility. <• The British bartt Arabia, from Calcutta. has arrived at Glasgow damaged by a tire which destroyed 60 bales of jute “and several 'hundred bundles of hides. Italy's claims against Brazil for Icgcd outrages Italian subjects during the late revolution are to be submitted to President Cleveland for arbitration. Belgium lias refused to surrender Harry Bussell, the postoffiee robber arid Ludlow street jailbreuker, because the crime

of which he is charged is not mentioned in the extradition treaty. Private dispatches to New York from Munich say that Louis Stern, of New York,'has forfeited 80,000 marks, theamount of bail given for his appearance to undergo the penalty imposed upon him for insulting Baron you Thucngeii. , A dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette, London, from Rome, published Friday afternoon, says that mirth excitement lias been caused there by the statement freely made in diplomatic circles that Russia and Frain-i 1 litnuTwlThdravvii froiii the Turkish question and that efforts are now being made to hold a European “con- * ferem-c, probably at Vienna. A dispatch received at Rome Thnrsday morning from Constantinople says that Pasha, the president of the Turkish yCohncil of State and formerly Grand E ml.assy at C>uislantiiiople. believing himself not only to be in danger of arrest, but fearing for his life. **The ('nloene. Gazelte, Ri-rlin, annonnces-that a Rus-; sfan squadron of seven haTfleships and nine torpedoboats is aueliorcd off Se- V bastopol, under orders to hold itself in readiness to sail at twenty-four hours’ notice. It is added that the orders for ■ assembling- this squadron ■ were issued a -month-ago. when Russia itsstrruea that Gi-i-.'if Britain might ntiempt to send Wiil' vessels“througn Hie Dardanelles without the eonsent..of the Sultan of Turkey. -The British ship Reliance, which has arrived at Sail Francisco 100 days from Swansea, had: a frightfully rough passage. She was in three hurricanes, two of which shifted her cargo of coal; had a man killed at sea, and was forced to run around the Cape of Good Hope. She left Swansea on June 27 and four days later a heavy northwest gale came up. It caught The Reliance off Cape Clear, and raged with fury for twelve hours. The ship's cargo shifted during the storm, hut fortunately the wind died down and the crew trimmed cargo. Off . the River Plqtto—t-he—ship waa-eftnght in a second hurricane, and part of her rigging was carried away. Iler third experience with heavy weather was south of New Zealand, where a revolving hurricane was encountered. It stamp'd from the north-northeast, and died away fiftysix hours later from a nearly opposite quarter. Only the most, careful seamanship sa vod tho vessel?— -