Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Orinoco Mining Company““whiefc owns a land grant in Venezuela, lids beer 7 incorporafedin Wisconsin, with a capita: stock of $30,000. The London Press Association announced that the Scotch oil combine has Completely, dissolved, with heavy losses to its Investors, and that the Standard Oil Con ipany is again in aster of the situation; It is reported at Rio Janeiro that Bolivia is unwilling to accept Brazil’s pro posal that President Cleveland arbitrate as to the lines of delimitation between them. Argentina, has resolved to Dug more artillery in Europe. Her treasury estimate shows a $0,000,000 deficit for IS9G. Tiie pride in the Chilian national credit, which was highly influenced by the facility with which £2,000,000 was advanced as -account current by the Rothschilds, of London, has received a lamentable fall. It has been found that the loan will cost -CbHj G' pef cent in uiterest, \vhile a Germau syndicate offered to lend the Government more than £0,000,000 at 4 pei cent, free of all charge. William F. Mannix, an American mewspaper correspondent in Cuba, has been ordered by the authorities to leave the island. He wrote a private letter to the Washington Evening Star, in which he said ,he had been informed that he waj blacklisted at the palace at Havana and any more side trips would be the Cause of his being invited to leave. The State Department has not yet boon informed of the intention of the Spanish officials tc expel Mannix, but it has been known that his vigorous letters have proved objectionable to the Spanish authorities. The Chinese Government has at length turned its attention to the construction ot railroads, and, according to United States Minister Denby, has appointed Chii-Ahen, a provincial judge, to superintend the building of a railroad from Tien-Tsin to Lu Kou bridge, eight miles west of Pekin, which is as near the sacred precincts ot royalty as Chinese etiquette will permit the road to approach at present. The cost of the seventy miles of road is estimated at $2,000,000 and is to be finished in one year. The decree ordering the work also requires Chinese merchants tc form stock companies to build other railroads, for the Government is determined to exclude foreign capital and foreign control for the roads. In regard to the request of Minister Terrell that the United States legation be allowed a second dispatch-boat for its ' service, the Turkish Government contendthat as the passage of the Straits of the Dardanelles was regulated by an agreement between the' six powers, the United States must apply to them for the necessary permission, as she is not a party to the treaty of Paris. On behalf of the United States, it is understood, the contention is made that the regulations do not apply to the United States, and that she considers the Straits of the Dardanelles to be open waters. It is stated in wellinformed circles that the reasbn for the Porte’k hesitation to grant the request ol ~Mri -Tefroß-l&- the-opposition of--i Russia to the request of the United States foi the passage of an extra guardship through the straits. ’ - - •V X - According. to rumors in Cuban and Spanish circles, .the Nentuno. now in drydock at Perth Amboy, N. J.* the Narino, which is being transformed into a gunboat, and other steamers which have been mentioned in connection with expeditio'ns to Cuba, are not being fitted out by the Cuban junta at all; but by the New Yorls sugar merchants. Several months ago the ramor was spread that a syndicate had furnished $370,009 to help Gomez in his scheme pf burning plantations for the purpose of creating a boom in sugar. It is now rumored that Horatio S. Rubens, counsel for the Cuban revolutionary parfy, is in Washington, lobbying not only Tor thd junta, but for the sugar people as well. The rumored plan is a clever one. It appears that Tit contemplates buildinc vessels so well equipped that they could capture the ports of Cuba. Of course this work will be done in connection with the junta. It would take a large fleet to carry out the plans, as the Spanish Government has now over fi*fty ships tc ’protect the different parts of the island.