Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Gomez, the Cuban insurgent leader, isagain reported dead. Llovd Osborne, son of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, was married in Honolnlu to Miss Katherine Durham, of Stanford University:, — 4 — St. Petersburg polfde: have A report from Ust Yausk denying the story that Explorer Nansen had’reached the north pole and was returning. News of important executions? in San Domingo lias - jtisf reached the —Luit&lStates. The minister of war, Gen. Rainou CastilLo, and Jose Estav. Governor of the Province of Macoris, were executed at Macoris by order of Clisses’ Hef&aux, president of Suit Domingo. The governor of San Domingo, Gen. Picardo, BoilTdedThe steamer Presidenfe with 150 soldiers, went to Macoris and had the officials shot. About seven thousand Quhans have fled from their native island to San Domingo during the last six-months, Paris dispatch: The Bourgeois,cabinet has resigned. According to the newspapers, President Faure has declined to countersign the bill providing for the revision of the constitution which the premier, M. Bourgeois, wished to submit to the Chamber of Deputies when that -body—reassembled as a result of the special summons following the action of the Senate in postponing the vote on the Madagascar credits. It is added that in view of the president’s refusal to sign this bill the 'members of the radical left party have , decided to introduce a motion denying the Senate the right to be the sole interpreter of the constitution and demanding that a meeting of the natiotaal assembly be called tcT decide the questions in dispute. Bourgeois, in announcing the resignation of the ministry, read the statement contesting the right of the Senate to overthrow n ministry or to be the sole interpreter of the constitution, but, he added, in view of the impossibility of securing proper military reliefs for Madagascar, the -cabinet was compelled to resign. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette’s special correspondence from Mrs. Woodward contains an interview with Dr. Jose Manual Delgado, the American citizen who was shot and hacked and left for dead by Spanish troops when they raided the plantation of Dolores iu Mainoa. Delgado said he was an American, neutral in this contest, attending to his farm. Maceo had fired Dolores’ plantation and retired before the Spanish troops. A Spanish captain came to Delgado’s house with twenty men, telling the doctor and his seven field hands' to follow. Delgado showed his passport as an American; so did his rngn. The captain said he had nothing to do with the matter; he was obeying orders, but it was his opinion that the worst thing they could do would bo td sKdw that they Were Americans. Ax-. riving at Gen. Meiguizo’s headquarters, Delgado said they were neutrals and then showed their passports. , Melguizo became furious. He struck Delgado with his machete, exclaiming: “I will shoot you, just as I would the consul general if he were here.” There were eight of them taken out and tied together with a rope and' placed against a stone wall. The order was to cut the prisoners down with machetes. In attempting this the rope broke and the soldiers were ordered to fire. At the first volley Delgado fell forwardrfeigmng de;vUu,- ~,The- second volley sent a bullet into hiq thigh. ATI the others except one were killed. The dofftor was left for'deud and lost consciousness. When he recovered he found himself in his dwelling. There his old father took care of him. Shortly afterward' Spanish soldiers came searching for the two that had escaped. Delgado’s father hid him in a canefield, exposed to the inclement weather. Meantime the old father communicated with Consul General Williams and obtained a safe conduct to Havana, where Delgado uow lies under protection of fhc United States.