Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN

Rumors are current at Bilbao. Spain, of greatly increased activity in Uarlist circles; where it is hoped that the reverses which the Spanish forces have suffered In Cuba and the failure of Gen. Campus to put down the insurrection may nurse the Spanish people against the Government of the queen regent and afl i.al ;.n opportunity for Don Carlos, or Don J.-Ume, his sou. A dispatch from Ekaterinoslar. capital of the Government of that name iii South Russia, gives the details of a fire that occurred iu a theater there, causing large loss of life. The lire was discovered while a performance was going on. The spectators became panic stricken and made a wild rush for the exits. Forty-nine bodies have already been taken out. A number of persons who are known to have been hi the theater are still missing. Prince Henry of Buttcnberg, husband of Princess Beatrice of England, aho went to Ashantee in a special capacity aud who contracted fever there, is dcnJ. The news was received at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, early Wednesday. The queen and Princess Beatrice are prostrated with -I-rifL ~ The greatest' sorS&iF is manifested throughout the Isle of Wight at the death of Priuee Ilenry and the flags everywhere are at half-mast. A dispatch received from Osborne. Isle of Wight, says that the health of Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice is affected by the shock experienced when the nows of the death of Priuee Henry of Buttcnberg was made known to them. The remains of the priuee will he interred at Windsor and the ceremony to be followed will be similar to that used at the burial of the remains of the Duke of Albany. Queen Victoria’s youngest son, who died in T" \ The Paris Figaro says it -has Weeivcd private information that the Abyssinia ns captured Makalle, the Italian poSition, Sunday, l'revions'to this report, the latest news from Abyssinia was that King Mcuetik hail invested Makalle, and that Gen. Karatieri. the commander of the Italian forces, was at Krythrea and unable to succor Makalle, the three approaches to that place being almost impassable from natural-causes, besides being guarded by (>O,OOO Abyssininiis. A dispatch to the Loudon Pall Mall Gazette from Constantinople, dated Wednesday, says that an offensive ajnl defensive'alliance has beep concluded between Russia, and Turkey; The treaty was signed Jan. IS at Constantinople, nud the ratifications were exchanged at St. Petersburg between Aarej Paslm and the czar.. The basis of the treaty is declared to be on the lines of the Uukiar-Skelesaf agreement of 1853, by which Turkey premised, in the event of Russia goiug to war. to close the Dardanelles to .warships of Hi nations. The Pull Mall Gazette's correspondent adds that the treaty must soon be abandoned owing to the refusal of the powers to recognize it. He also says the French ambassador, M. oambou. conferred with the sultan yesterday, nml that it is probable France will be included in the new alliance. B. Argos, an Armenian resident of New Britain, Conn., is ji reeejpt of a letter

frbrn a friend in Armenia, In which fits tails are glven bf (the awful massacies perpetrated in the district' of Harpoot. The letter, which was secretly mailed and came via Persia, says that* between nine and ten thousand Armenians have been massacred, and upward of one hundred thousand are starving and destitute in the district.' Snow lies to the depth of several feet. Sojne-of the Armenians iiavi taken to eathig grain. Of-the 300 villages in Harpoot, five have been sacked and burned by Turks and Kurds. The rest arc* occupied by the butchering soldiers; There were twelve American missions in the iistfict, but eight of them have been burned. Toe lives of the Americans have been are in great want, and in some instances t they are starving. Cuban affairs came to the front in the Senate in a new- guise Tuesday when Sen-ator-Call read fp. telegram fromr Key West telling of the arrest of American citizens by the Spanish authorities. telegram is as follows: “Marquis RoiL, jriquez was taken from steamer Olivette last Wednesday. Louis Samallien. and son also taken at Havana. AH American citizens. Get them opt of grasp of Spanish authorities.” Senator Call offered .-. resolution reciting the arrests and directing the executive authorities to ascertain if any just cause for the arrests existed, and if not, to demand their ini: mediate,release. Senator Hoar suggested that the toue of. the resolution was too imperative. There seemedto be an idea, he said, that the Senate of the United States is a constantly loaded cannon, which can be touched off at any time by a Senator. The Senator urged an inquiry of tlie State Department before a demand. Owing to the energetic representations of United States Minister Terrell, -Miss Barton and her party will be permitted by the Turkish Government to distribute relief to the distressed Armenians, although the Red Cross will not figure in the work. This news came to the State Department Friday in a cablegram from the minister to Secretary Olney, in which he say* that while the porte refuses such permission to the Red Cross, or to the members of the Red Cross, as such,, and thereby declines to officially recognize that society, it will permit any person whom the minister names and approves to distribute relief in the interior of Turkey, provided . the Turkish authoxities are kept informed of what they are, doing. There can be no question that Miss Barton and her party will be so designated by Mr. Terrell. Bnt it is apprehended that they will encounter almost insurmountable obstacles in reaching the field of action, as the mountain passes between the seaboard and the Interior are. now practically impassable owing to the deep -snow.' — : —--•- ——---