Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Exports from Bradford. England, to the United States during March were valued $1,560,000. comjMired with $2,455.000 for the same period of 1895. The monitor lln a scar, frasli from the new drydock in Taleahuano, bad scarcely cast anchor at Valiiaraiso, Chili, when the main steftmpipe of the engiue burst, billing eight of the crew and seriously injuring nine others. President Alfaro of Ecuador has issued a decree That, iu the event of invasion or internal disorder, the Cost'of maintaining nn army and other war expense shall be defrayed with the property of the leaders, U. It /in n ha CaiTflil . r Plift Jnn r>«it 'XT It vt»*» ■ * *• “ srmttt, UvJ'ußli •nd transfer are to he carried out as the president shall dictate. In consequence of the energetic r*pre-

Philip Currie, and thb United State* -charge d'affaires, Jobn- T W. Riddle, the porte has furnished written assurances that the missionaries in Anatolia will not be piolested in the work of distributing re-lief/'-on condition that an Ottoman official is permitted to assist-in ihi distribution of the funds, e'tc,7“^ Orders have been received at Toulon, to prepare a number of warships for active service, stores and ammunition arc being overhauled and sent onboard the vessels to be prepared for commission-and all naval officers on furlough been telegraphed to rejoin the-r ships immediately. These measures are believed to be of a precautionary nature,..The French MedrfeffXnefffr~STuhflron7Tiowever, is to" be strengthened, and the second-class -ernisef CeclUe, 5.74KJ tons, eight five-ton guns and ten three-ton ’gads, having a speed of nineteen knqts, has sailed on a special mission to the African.-coast. Three weeks ago, at an auction sale in Lincolnshire, Eng., of the library' and household effects*of Hon. Farmer-Atkin-son, formerly member of Parliament for Boston, a perfect copy of the famous “Wicked” Bible went uwlerthe -hammer for $55. It is now announced that the purchaser has parted with his bargain to a well-known and wealthy collector of curiositios at an advance of $4,300. The volume receives its peculiar name on account of the omission of the negative from the seventh commandment. It was printed in London by Richard Barker in 1(531 and lias changed hands but nine times durihg the intervening 2450 years. The capture pf Pinar del "Rio and Santa Clara by the Cuban insurgents, who occupied them several hours and then left them in flames, is a severe blow to the Spanish. Gen. Luiz Maria Pando and Gen. Alvaro Suarez Valdez, the military governors of the destroyed cities, have been ordered to return to Spain by Captain General Weyler, The captain general is badly worried over the situation. He thought he had Pinar del Rio so strongly guarded that it was absolutely impossible for Maceo’s forces tq break in. But in the, middle of the night of March 25 they fcarne and literally laid the town in ashes. Of several hundred residences not more than a couple of dozen were left uninjured. —— While it cannot be learned that the rUntied States has yet joined with Great Britain in representations to Franee respecting the setting aside by the latter of the treaties of commerce and amity, that have-existed between th’etn and the llova Government of Madagascar, it is believed the matter is rapidly assuming a phase that will call for some action by our Government. Like GrcSit Britain, the United States has a treaty with the Hova Government that guarantees to our citizens privileges equal to those accorded any other nation. This means for one thing that no greater duties shall be imposed on goods imported into, Madagascar from the United States than for any other country. It is the purpose of the French Government to remove this equality and reserve special privileges for French merchants, and France has notified o.nr State Department that by virtue of this "assumptiorTof control "over the foreign re-, lations of Madagascar these treaties shall fall. Our trade with Madagascar is quite large.