Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

; The census of Pgris up to March 30 ■bows the French capital to have a population of 2,511,455, an increase of 87,250, Chiefly outside ot the fortifications. &ev. George P. Knapp, the American

missionary who was expelled from Blftts by the Turkish authorities without trial, on the cnarge of waving - incited Armenians to rebel against Turkish rule, was surrendered to the United States consul at Alexandretta Saturday, Details of the affair show thA* the step was not taken until a UnKed States warship had been telegraphed for. The correspondent of ,thte London Times at Constantinople says; "Rumors are current that the sultan has had a shddeu and. acute development cf spingk'hr wwaUydisease, due to Izzet in saving his sovereign from work anil worry. I believe that the sulta : is quite free from organic disease, but he is constitutionally subject to violent paroxysms of nervous irritability which brain fatigue tends to aggravate.” The Spanish gunboat Mensagera has captured and brought into Havana the American schooner Competitor, of Key West, loaded with arms and ammunition, believed to be intended for the insurgents. The details of the affair show that the Mensagera on Saturday sighted near Berracasj, on the north coast, of the’Province of Pinar del Rio, a sußpicious-looking schooner, which attempted to get away from' the war vessel. She was pursued, overhauled and boarded. In Command of her were Alfredo La horde, Dr. Bedia and three newspaper correspondents. The Competitor, it appears, was last from the Mosquito coast, where, it is presumed, she shipped the .arms and -ammunition found on board. The latter consisted of 38,000 Cartridges, a- number of packages of dynamite, mnny cases of Mauser and Remington rifles, cases of accoutrements, etc. The men found on board are held as prisoners. Baron Hirsch left to the Frinco of Wules by Will £1,000.000 ($5,000,000). This is announced from London noon the authority of a leading official in one of the royal establishments—a Knight Commander of the Bath, who by reason of his official as well as his personal and social

relations to the Prince of Wales, is in a position "to know the facts. Common rumor has had it for a long time that the prince was heavily in ihe baroft's debt. Whether the bequest is exclusive or inclusive of this alleged indebtedness cannot be known perhaps until, the will is read. The baron certainly and frequently was of great financial assistance to his royal highness. In return the prince gave him constant social countenance, even going to the baron’k vast shooting domains in Austria a few years ago on a visit". The young kaiser was also invited there, but, with contempt, refused to go. 1 Report has. over since had it that the prince pressed his nephew to go, and that the kaiser’s refusal was the first cause of the wellknown ill-feeling between the two. A dispatch from Pretoria says: Sentence of death has been pronounced upon Messrs. Phillips, Hammond, Farrar and Rhodes, of the Joliaiincsburg reform committee, who recently pleaded guilty of high treason. This appears to be confirmed by the following advices from London: The Secretary of State for the Colpnies, Joseph Chamberlain, announced in the House of Commons Tuesday that the five leaders of the refera* committee'"of Johannesburg—J. H. Hammond, > Francis Rhodes, George Farrar, Lionel Phillips and Charles Leonard—had been condemned to death. Mr. Chamberlain added that upon hearing the news he cabled to the Governor of Cape Colony, Sir Hercules Robinson, to communicate the following to President Kruger: “The Government has just lourned that the sentence of death has been passed upon the five leaders of the reform committee. They can feel no doubt that your honor will commute sentence and haft'e assumed Parliament of their conviction that this is your honor's intention.” John Hays Ham- " mond, one of the members of the reform committee condemned to death, is an American. W. J. Galloway, conservative member for southwest Manchester, asked whether the law under which the leaders of the Johannesburg reform committee ■“Were tried does not provide for the confiscation of their property in the event of conviction, and not for the imposing of the death penalty. Mr. Chamberlain said -he- was-unable- to-omwoE-the .question...