Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — FOREIGN, [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN,

Mutinous conduct ou the part of the Thirteeuth Hussars is reported from Dundalk, Ireland. The cavalrymen are said to have hacked to pieces twenty-eight saddles and bridles. Several of the Hussars have been arrested. A Rome dispatch says; On account of the excessive pecuniary demands made by Menelek, it is*improbable that peace will be concluded. Signori Ricotti and Rudini, who are in accord with the king, will refuse the payment of any money indemnity. Promoter Wing, of Springfield, 111., is on trial at Paris, France. Wing arrived in France early in 1805, hoping to raise money an bonds of the Rock Island, Peoria and St. Louis Railway. After selling several blocks of stock he was arrested on a charge of fraud. He will be acquitted. A riot took place Sunday in a lumber camp west of Guadalajara, Mexico, and resulted in three Mexicans being killed. George Roberts, the American superintendent, was seriously wounded. The rk>t was caused by a. demand for higher wages. A number of the workmen sustained Roberts. The German reichstag is now considering a bill, framed at the instance of the agrarians, to restrict the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. The purpose of the bill is to prevent the imposition of RleftßMttttlinS. noon purchasers as genuine batter, and one provision seems particularly well calculated to at least protect the actual consumer, for it is.supposed

J— . ■ 1 T—to require the manufacturers to stain tne oleomargarine red or blue. United States Consul Ewing, in repotting upon the subject to the State Department, says there is grcab opposition to the measure. News from the front received at Cairo confirms the report that British-Egyptian advance guards under Major CoUinson occupied Afiasbeh' Friday without oppositioh.' > A'fort is qow being built at that place. The Egyptian debt commission met ip order to again discuss the question of the withdrawal of funds from the-r'e-serve, with which*tq defrSy the expenses of the British-Egyptian expedition up the Nile; bat, owing to the illness oFthe German commissioner, the meeting was adjourned. An extraordinary council of all day long, wad held at Constantinople Saturday. ~ The subject Under discussion was the BritishEgyptian expedition. -—*— H . • As a result of the extraordinary cabinet council at which lasted throughout Saturday, the Turkish Government has issued an appeal, Addressed ‘to France and Russia, asking them to intervene with the object of regulating affairs in Egypt. Germany, it is added, , was also requested by the porte. to exercise her. good offices in this sense—lnstructions were also dispatched to the Turkish ambassador at London to make representations to the Marquis of Salisbury, Jmt itheir tenor is not known. It ia“geHefaHy understood that nothing short of the armed interference of those two nations will prevent Great Britain from pushing the Soudan campaign. The commission of the Egyptian debt met at Cairo Thursday and decided to advance the £500,000 necessary to meet the expenses of the British-Egyptian expedition against Dongola. Of the sum needed £200,000 is available immediately. The Knglish, German, Italian and Austrian members of the commission voted to advance the money required. The Russian and French members voted against the proposition. Directly the action of the majority of the commissioners became known the representatives of the Paris syndicate of Egyptian bondholders took steps to institute proceedings before the Egyptian mixed tribunal against the debt commissioners and the ministers responsible for the reserve fund. The troops commanded by Gen. Godoy and Col. >Helgui.n, at the Santa Rosa plantation, near Esperanza; Province of -Baatar~Gtentr-Cuba, mistook each other for insurgent forces, owing, It Is said, to the thickness c t the sugar cane. Each detachment opened fire upon the other and for ton minutes shots were exchanged, resulting in the killing of seventeen soldiers, among them being Lieut. Col. Fuenmayer, of the Navas Battalion. Id addition, five officers and eighty-four soldiers were wounded. Two of the latter have since died; six-others are mtjrtnUy wounded and thirty-two are seriously injured. Lieut. Col. Fueninaycr died while leading his troops on and shouting “Long live Spain!” Owing to the fact that the meeting between the two columns took place at midday, the explanation furnished by the Spanish commanders is considered unsatisfactory and a court-martial will follow.