Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN

Russia is negotiating for the creation of a branch of the Bauque lmpcrialc Russo i:i New York. Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria has. formally renounced the throiie of which the crazy King. Otto is the normal incumbent. An explosion of fire damp occurred hi a colliery at VTahlouburg, Prussian Silesia, forty-three miles southwest of Breslau, Tuesday. Fifty persons are known to have been killed or injured, and seventeen others are missing. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, dispatch: The Government intends to call a meeting of all diplomatic representatives of .South America early in the new year to consider means of common defense against E:uopcuh aggression. It is denied in Rio Janeiro that Brazil will send troops to-aid Venezuela. The Venezuelan Government is negotiating in die United States f«r war ► applies. Four heavy gnus have been sent from Caracas to. fortify, the harbor of Maracaibo. Special commissioners appointed to arrange an-alliance of South and Central American republics against England arc ready to depart." A semi-official denial was made at St. Petersburg of the announcement made in titc N’eue Frcie Prcsse of Vienna, saying that, Russia and France had actually promised diplomatic support K> the United States in the Venezuelan question, and that Russia was prepared to facilitate the FulledjS.taleaLJuan--. ailh . lmr ..a>wa. goUreserve. At Madrid, it is announced that the Danish Government has expressed the opinion that the steamer Ilorsa, tiyiiig the Danish flag, which conveyed a filibustering expedition to Cuba in November last, front Philadelphia, ought to have been regarded as a pirate, >n spite of the

[ contrary derision of the United State* authorities. : jtho Turkish Government has orderet tile commander of the Turkish forces sur founding Zeitoun to suspend bostijitiej pending the negotiations which'flie repre sentatives of the powers have entered info in order to bring about the surrender of the Zeitouuiifl. ..The ambassadors have given their respective consuls at Aleppo full* liberty of action iu regard to the steps which they may think necessary to take fa prevail!upon the insurgents to surrender. .. I 1 ■ 5' The greatest; ,alann existed iu London Saturday, because no further pews had arrived from the Transvaal. Forty-eig ht< hours had elapsed since the confirmation Of the report of the capture of Dr. Jiftne-' son and jiTsTittvadlng force by {Be BoffFsT Tlie re came a very significant message from the* German Emperor to. the president of'the Transvaal republic, congratulating him upon (the successful repulse of the British force). This aroused a storm of indignation iu Great Britain/ which was quickly succeeded by a feeling pf apprehension over! an unconfirmed rumor .that an uprisingf had occurred at Johanliesbtirg; and that the English were beingdriven out. It i 3 believed a great crisis is On. Tlie dispatch !to the Tguidon Daily; Uhiiitiielo from its special commissioner at Washington, giving hitherto unpublished correspondence between th«» GoVerilnieiits of Great Britain and Venezuela during tlie period between November, 1840, tvhen Robert Schomlnirgk was appointed to survey the western territory of British Guiana, and April. 1842. when Great Britain finally removed the boundary posts which he had set at various points in that territory to form : the so-called. Srhombtirgk line, is attracting much attention iu -LOUdpir. Tlie ('lu-viiiele calls it a “iilornetitons dispatch” and heads it. “A New; Face to the ('ohtroversy; tlie Sehombiirgly Line Usejess. Some Startling Dis-l patches.” A ; foreign office official said that the correspondence, quoted was correct “so far as it goes,'’ ami added: “But there is much which is unpublished, especially letters of Seuor Fortique (tlie Venezuelan minister to Great Britain at the time}. These give a different light upon the whole matter: We might, for iffstance, take portions of Secretary Gino.v’a document and transform il into a statement which would he entirely antagonistic to the American side of the question.” | A Loudon dispatch says: The invading English army in the Transvaal Has been disastrously defeated by the Boers. A 1 score of more have been killed, many wounded, and Dr.i .Tnmeson is a prisoner at .lohaiinesburg. One of the most im.pudeut nets of aggression -ever committed even by British arms has thus met with swift retribution. The details are meager of this inglorious finale of what was intended to be a brilliant piece of bravado, which success might justify but which failure would, make a crime. All. that is known is that tlie Government messengers, with dispatches from Lon-,' Aon ordering Dr. Jameson'to retreat to the t ‘-bartered Company's territory, reach-! ed Dr. Jameson Wednesday morning. He pocketed the Queen’s orders, told the messenger laconically that he would at-! tend to them, gave tint command to his troops to saddle, and marched, not on; the back track, but on toward Johannes-! burg. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon he, .encountered the Boers at Krugersdorf.' about thirty miles oast of Johannesburg.' There was hard fighting until sundown,; and the British troops suffered severely/ The famous marksmanship of the Boers l was no less deadly than in their gallant! defense against the same enemy fifteen! years ago. Twenty men, including three' officers, were killed, and fifty prisoners were taken before Dr. Jameson surren-, dered. These meager facts are all the information the Government vouchsafes.