Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Dispatches from Havana announce the arrival there of six transports with reenforcements of Spanish troops for service in Cuba. Generals Marin and Pando were also On board. M. Adrien Lachenal. who was vice president fcr 1895. has been - ejected president of the Swiss Republic for 1896. He is a radical in politics and his honife is in Geneva- M. Deucher Thurgau has been elected vice president. The Freni h Chamber of Deputies decided that, except under unusual circumstances. no more tinned meats are to be supplied to the army after Jan. 1, 1897, Tdveept suvh as are -imtnufaHured in~ »France or in the Frepch colonies. A sentence of two j ears’ imprisonment with hard labor passed upon Richard Stephens, rtA7O-year-old millionaire <jf Winchester, England, for over thirty years a member of the bench of magistrates of that city, who was recently convicted upon two indictments charging pffensfs similar to those which resulted in OsCar Wilde's downfall. Constantinpple dispatch: The long-drawn-out controversy between the Sultan and the ambassadors of the powers over the question of'the admission of additional guard ships for the protection.of the embassies was settled at 8:10 o'clock

Tuesday evening by the issuance of an irade granting the necessary'firmans to permit the guard shiDs to pass the Dardanelles. "A. repyt from Antananarivo, Madagascar, ..says that an anti-European mob numbering 6,000 destroyed the missiou station at Ramairandro. Rev. Mr, McMahon; the missionaj-y in charge, and his family escaped a few hours previous to the looting of the mission. All Europeans residing in the country districts have been ordered to the capital and G(M) French troops have b<-.-n dispatched with orders to put down the riots. A dispatch addressed to the Associated Press and signed by a:’number of Armenians of Constantinople has been re■.CMrcd in at her Inst gasp. The luiniber i>f rteople reaches' 100,000 and half “a --million Ot SUl'Vivors have taken refuge in‘ the forests and .mountains, where they •are feeding oil Iteibs and roots. , Hungerand cold have begun to make great ravages among them. In the name of hurnanity and-Christianity save us.” Ln her_slruggle for independence Cuba has found a powerful ally in the Island of Porto Rico. According; to the latest intelligence Spain has two insurrections on her hands, or will ha ve if t lie plans mat tiring are carried into execution. An army is being formed lijr the separatist party of Porto Rico, and as soon as the leaders are ready tire new campaign will open. As in the Venezuelan affair, the revolutionists at;e Cuban patriots residing in New York, and the same secrecy attends their movements. The leaders claim that tC vigorous declaration of independence has been prepared by the leaders of the Porto Rican separatist party, and that it is their intention, to issue this as soon as they can feel sure that they can defend themselves against any action Spain maj - take in consequence. One of the most prominent Porto Ricans in New York dclared Tuesday that this might be in less than a fortnight. Ttfe White Star litre steamship Germanic. Captain McKinstry, from Liverpool Wednesday for Queeiistown and New York, collided at the mouth of the River Mersey with the Scotch coasting arrd was obliged "to re--turn to London badly damaged. The Germanic has a hole 9_~feet in its -bow apovethe water mark.' The coilistoßoccurred in tlfe fog. Both vessels were going dead slow at the time, About an hour after the Germanic started it had an extra ibokout man, but it was impossible to avoid the collision. The cries of the Cambrac's passengers were hoartrending when they found the vessel was sinking. The Germanic’s bulkheads were immediately closed, so that little water penetrated the hull. A volunteer crew from the Germanic and the 'Cambrae started to draw the fires and to save the valuables on board the Cambrae, but it sank before they reached it. This crew thus left behind lost traces of the Germania, but fortunately their cries attracted a tug, which rescued them.