Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Violent gales have prevailed along all the British coasts and the shipping at Hull has suffered considerably. A large • vessel rfas driven ashore near Port Patrick, Scotland. It is feared there bus been great loss.of life. Ovdr fifteen hundred Armenians hitre been arrested in Constantinople dating the last fortnight, owing to apprehensions

of fresh manifestations by the Armenian population. Fifty-two Armenians and sixteen Turks were also exiled to Asia Minor and seventy-three Turkish students at the military college of Kuleli were arrested for some unknown cause. The latest report from Johannesburg says the four leaders of the reform committed—(Jol. Francis Rhodes, John Hays Hammond, Lionel Phillips and George Farrar —will be findd $125,600 each and will be: sentenced to ten years’ banishment. 32 The Chinese Government has awakened to the fact that the recent defeat by their smaller but more highly educated -neighbor, Japan, was due,entirely to the ineuleatioh in thp latter nation of western methods. In view of possible future complications, the Government has decided to recognize the superiority of foreign training. As a result twenty ChineSfe boys, ranging In age from 10 to 12 years, will soon make their appearance in this country. Unlike their predecessors, these -visitors come Us children to become skilled in mechanical arts, The youngsters will come over in care of Rev. Hui Kin, superintfendent of the Presbyterian Chinese Mission, who is a graduate of an American college and the third Chinaman to be ordained jh this Country. The expenses of the pupils are paid by their fathers. The boys ,will be immediately taken to some nearby country place, where they’ will be taught the rudiments of the English language, as well as the tenets of Christianity, and on their return to the city in the fall will take up their mechanical studies. Chinn, it is believed, will also apply soon to this Government for the privilege of sending one or more of its youths to AA’est Point and Annapolis. The Czar and Czarina ,pf Russia made their triumphal entry intmMoseow Thors-, day aftethoon amid the Thunder of batteries of artillery, the clanging of countless bells and the cheers of a vast multitude of loyal Russians and equally enthu-siastic-visitors from all parts Of the world,’ Probably never in the history of nations' has there been Such an Assemblage of peoples. Possibly the gorgeous scene may never be repeated in its grand entirety. The entire route from Petrovski Palace, about three miles on the road to S-t. Petersburg, to the Kfcmilu was so densely packed with people that movement except on the. outskirts of the immonsi crowds was out of the question. The Anal for the commencement of the days movements was a salute of nine guns from a. bat.iery outside the city. This was followed by the dull booming of the big bell of the Cathedral of the Assumption and the assembling of thq troops at their various mustering points, The Turkish sultanas presents to the -czar upon the--occa-sion of the latter’s coronation consist of a number of rich carpets and fttber costly articles, “including a diamond pin valued at SIO,OOO, intended for the czarina. In addition the sultan has se’nt a high decoratio n to the czar and has forwarded presents to the, principal members of his household.