Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN

Rome dispatch: King Menelek continues his advance, cunningly paralyzing any offensive movement on the part of Gen. Bara fieri bv treating the battalion of Col. Galliano as hostages. The situation remains very critical. The decree of divorce obtained by Mrs. Pearle Craigie, the authoress, better known as "John Oliver Hobbes." on .Inly 4 last, was made absolute at Loudon. Mrs. Craigie proved cruelty and unfaithfulness on the part of her husband, a clerk in the Bank of England, to whom she was married in 1887. She is the daughter of John Morgan Richards, formerly of Now York, now of London. Mr. .Gladstone has written another letter oil the Armenian question, in whieji. after referring to the "murderous wickedness of the Sultan, his absolute victory over the powers and their unparalleled disgrace and defeat," lie says: “I cannot wholly abandon the hope that out of this darkness light will arise, hut the matter rests'with the Almighty, to whom surely all shou! 1 address fervent prayers iu behalf of His suffering creatures.” - The i.unnnl report of the British Government Board of Trade ou emigration for the year 1895, compiled by Sir Robert Giffe'l, shows that during the year 185,3tR» men aud women left the United Kingdom to seek homes aud a livelihood iu other portions of the globe. Of these, 1x2.1553 were; English, 18,277 Scotch and 54.480 Irish. Of the English emigrants 01.237 wtnt to the United States and 14,170 to British North America. Of the Scotch, .132231 were added to the population of the UuPed States and 1,303 to that of Canada, while 52.17 S Irish emigrants turned their faces toward ‘‘the laud of the free and the home of the brave.” and 1.119 sops and daughters of Erin's Isle turned toward Canada. Late advices from China tell of the uttering by Chinese forgers, on the Island of Java, of $3,000,000 of Java bank uotes. In order to get notes accented forged notary acceptances were placed on them. Already £OOO,OOO of forged and discounted notes have been discovered, and many prominent Chinese merchants have been placed under arrest, including Captain Chinn, one of thb wealthiest Qhiuainen iu Java. It is believed by the pdlice that the forgeries were completed in Singamore. Kwee-Che-Soe, a native of China, now a resident of Sourabaya, and a baud •of native etchers have been arrested. Soe has confessed to having committed the forgeries, and implicates many others, i all of whom insist they are innocent. Nearly all the leading Chinese merchants of Java have been victimized. Soe is noted for his cunning. Most of the notes made under his instruction were for £I,OOO each. On searching Soe's house not only were Souud the forged seals of the notary, but also a number of forged bank notes of £SOO each which had recently been made. Soe confessed and offered to give the names of all the other culprits. One of the principals of the gang was Kong Kee, iu whose house were found plates aud other tools used for the forgeries. Finished bank notes for £SOO aud some in course of being completed were also found. The banquet of the Nonconformist Unionist Association at the Hotel Metro pole, in London, Friday night, was the occa-

•lon an address by the Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister and Secretary of-State for Foreign Affairs. In the course of his remarks he said, with reference to, Venezuela: “I have been held up as the-denonneer nf the Monroe doctrine. As a matter of fact, although the Monroe doctrine is no part of international law, my dispatch to Mr. Gluey, the Secretary of State of the United States, supported it as a rule of policy in the strongest and most distinct terms. Bnf what I stated iu that dispatch I reiterate now, that, as a rule noW of policy, we are the entire advocates of the Monroe doctrine, we ifiean the Monroe'doetrine as President Monroe understood it (Cheers.) In that sense you will not find any more convinced syp--Salisbury then turned abruptly to the Armenian question, aud he reproached the religious communities with laboring, under a mistake when they supposed that England had bound jmrself iu honor to succor the Armenians, which means to go to war with the saltaiT in order to fSorefi him to govern the Armenians well. The speaker reminded his hearers that the reforms which the sultan had recently accepted, although very good reforms, could not be expected to produce good. government in two months.