Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

At U>pb)in. in the election Monday for a member of Parliament to succeed ,Df. J. Edward Kenny, Parnellite, who recently resigned, in the College Green division of Dublin City, J. L. Carew, Parnellite, was returned 1 without opposition. Last year, according to figures contained in a report to the State Department by United States Commercial Agent Moore, nt Weimar, the consumption of tobacco in Germany was .159,392,580 pounds, or a little over three pounds per capita. The British ship Brabloch, sixty-seven days from Newcastle, New South Wales, was towed into-San Francisco with her cargo of coal on fire. Sho was grounded and water pumped into her hold through ten lines of hose until the fire was extinguished. Gardner Williams, the American engineer, manager of the De Beers mines, is among the members of the reform committee commited Tor trial at the next session of the high court of Pretoria on the charge of high treason for participating in the uprising at Johannesburg. The London Daily Newshnd the Chronicle hare a report from Constantinople,' said to be on the best authority, that an imperial order has decreed the wholesale expulsion of all Christian missionaries from Armenia, who are mainly French Cathdiics and American Protestants. News comes that Chinese soldiers stationed at Miang Yin mutinfhd- because the Viceroy sent martinets, to them as commanding officers. Not liking the rigid rule of the new general they seized the guns in all the forts and were about to kill all the officers in command when the powder .magazine exploded, blowing up the entire regiment. No one near the scene lives to tell whether the explosion was accidental or designed. Flying shells killed all persons within 300 yards of the -buildings^ Spanish securities fell on the London Stock Exchange Tuesday in consequence of the action of the United States House of Representatives in regard to the question of Cuban belligerency. The Globe Tuesday afternoon, commenting upon the vote in the United States House of Representatives, says: “The chief dangers of the situation is that Spanish pride will never surrender Spain’s ipost valuable colony until beaten to the ground, and should there ,be a repetition of the popular demonstrations against the United States, American passion might flame up in an ugly manner and compel President Cleveland to demand satisfaction. This would almost inevitably result in war, and while the United States would, of course, crush Spain, American trade, already very delicate, would be'very largely wrecked.” In conclusion, the Globe expresses the opinion that it ais improbable that President Cleveland will seriously consider the concurrent resolutions. 4 Admiral Sanchez Ocana, commanding the great navy yard at Ferrol, Spain, reports to bis Government that he has completed preparations for seeding to sea a Spanish squadron composed of fourteen vessels, with crews,aggregating nearly 6,000 men. The Madrid press plainly says the movcment<of the fleet will depend upon the course of President Cleveland after the vote of Congress on the belligerency resolutions. Six transatlantic steamers have been turned into twentygun fast cruisers. It is easy to see that the papers are ready for another outbreak of popular excitement. But the Government is determined to continue to show energy in quelling demonstrations calculated to alter harmonious relations with America or whjch would be likely to paralyze the contemplated negotiations between the two Governments. Admiral Berenger, the minister of marine, pro l ’ poses to rhe cabinet an extra credit of 23,000,000 pesetas on account of naval construction. Advices received nt Constantinople Tuesday from Diarbekir indicate beyond any reasonable doubt that Rev. George C. Knapp, one of the American missionHTferirw tils, lr cmaftned In Ore Jill at Diarbekir, capital of the vilayet of tAat

■ name. In Turkish Armenia, aud that serious international complications are more ■ than likely to follow. At die first Intimation of trouble the United States charge d’affaires, after communicating with the porte and receiving the unsatisfactory reply cited, cabled to Washington for further instructions, and it is now said that the United States squadron in the Mediterranean, consisting of the flagship Minneapolis, commanded by Admiral T. O. Selfridge, and the cruiser Marblehead, will shortly assemble in the Gulf of lakanderun, and at the same time a formal protest against the treatment of the American missionaries may be made to the porte, coupled with the demand for adequate indemnity for the damage recently done to the property of Americans.. The imprisonment of Rev, Mr, Knapp is understood to be but a preliminary to the expulsion of all the Christian missionarles, mostly Americans, English and French Catholics, from-Asiatic Turkey,and, possibly, from European Turkey as well. Besides, It Is rumored that the agents of the American Red Cross Society, now distributing relief funds in Asiatic Turkey In ther presence of local Turkish officials, are also to be expelled from that part of the empire. _* - Ex-King Milan, of Serria, announces officially that he will.come to the United States with the express purpose of finding an American woman with plenty of money who would be willing to marry the present ruler of Serria, King Alexander. For the exchange of her shekels it is stipulated that the bride-to-be shall be formally elevated to tfie nobility, after which the marriage will take place in royal style. In contracting this unequal matrimonial alliance ex-King Milan ia to provide that King Alexander secures absolute control of his millionaire bride’s money. Alexander has already been jilted by many titled women of Europe.* The American girl who will become King Alexander’s wife will hare to be a strong-minded woman Who will be able to reform her husband should any degree of happiness be hers. An ex-attache thus describes this personage: “King Alexander, *or King ‘Sasha,’ as he is nicknamed, is one of the most offensive and displeasing youths that could be found anywhere from the Bosphorus to the banks of the Tagus. His manners are coarse and brutal in the extreme, fully in keeping with his beetling brows, low forehead, and almost bestial nose and jaw, while the opinions which he vouchsafes with regard to women in general are characterized by an affectation of cynicism and disillusion that is revolting indeed.” The future Queen of Servia will also have to satisfy the caprices of her ail but amiable father-in-law, who is an incurable spendthrift, and whose excesses have caused his dethronement. His was a singularly turgid, ribald, shameless and erratic reign. After a long career of profligacy he deserted his country in a most critical hour.