Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Paderewski has_been compelled to cancel his engagements in England because" of nejvous prostration. He attributes his illness to hard work and the? impressible women worshipers who annoyed him during his American. tour. Emperor Nicholas Alexandtovitch, autocrat of all the Russius, and Empress Alexandra Fe.odarovffa.lJweie_.jfiohLninly. crowned Tuesday in the Cathedral of the Assumption at Moscow with the utmost ceremony and in accordance with gU the religious forms and ancient rites, , Au official dispatch Jo Rome from Canea, Island of Crete, says fresh disturbances occurred there Tuesday. The people were panic-stricken and . communication was interrupted with adjacent! villages. Families of Mussulmans and Christians are believed to havbSfeeen killed. Prof. T. D. Seymour,, of Yale College, has received a letter from R. B. Rlchard’son, director of the American school at Athens, who is conducting the excavations at Corinth. Mr. Ridhnfdson says: “We have found some graves witU a d ozon or more vases “of *-a very a ncien t style, Seine of the very oldest hand-made affairs of interesting shape. We have also found the ancient city in several different places. -Mti- one-of -these—we ha ve found a pavement of a Ip-ond street. In another place we strike the original level at a depth of about twenty-five feet, and _right__here we arc daily finding large and small fragments of old Corinthian vases. In a well we are finding quantities -of -red-figured--ware. -We ha ve found a fpw pieces of sculpture, the best of which is a Dionysian group of Dionysus, Pan Mid a nymph, all without heads. The figures are about half life-size; The walls that we find in our trenches are good and old. jmt the great depth gives, us great trouble.”