Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The plague has broken out among the various Hamieh cavalry stationed at Cazoghhas, in the Vilayet of Bitlis, Turkey. The village of Krienholz, in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, has been partially destroyed by landslips and subsiding of the ground, caused by springs of water. The inhabitants have been compelled to desert the place, and great damage has been done to the railroad and farms in the vicinity. John A. B'innigan, the special correspondent,of the Watertown, N. Y., Standardin the .Island of Cuba, has been expelled by Captain General Weyler. Mr. Finnigan had been in Cuba since April. He was twice arrested and sent back to Havana. Last week he left the city contrary to the orders of the authorities. On his return Mr. Finnigan was warned that he must leave by the Saratoga, which sailed Sunday. He was placed under a strong guard, but "managed to‘get a message off through a friend. The Pretoria correspondent of the London Times says: “President Kruger is anxious to commute the death sentences of "the reform lenders to rs heavy fine, but the other members of the executive council object on the ground that the Government would be charged with mercenary" motives. They suggest that they should be confined for five years in prison. Meantime, the release of the other reformers has done little io assuage the feeling on the Rand and the persons of President Kruger and Secretary of State" Leyds are more carefully guarded by the poliee than ever. The first fort on the hills south of Pretoria is being rapidly built under the direction of a German military engineer.” Monday was a day of funerals in Moscow, 1‘,277 victims of the disaster on Hodynsky Plain being buried. The bodies of those who were identified were interred in private graves, but at the expense ms the' municipality. The great number of the unidentified dead were buried In eleven great trenches, each fifty yards long. The trenches were deep, and the mutilated bodies were placed" close together to find room for all. The surviving friends and relatives are for the most part of the ignorant’and simple minded peasant class, and their grief-and terror nt the sudden calamity are expressed in demonstrative fashion. , Only about half the bodies recovered have been identified, and the majority of these are men, though there are manjf children and several old people, some 80 years old. Most of the private graves of the victims have been marked with wooden crosses. The clothes of the victims were heaped in a huge pile in one corner of the cemetery, and in this the people rummaged all day long seeking the slightest trace that would afford a clew to the fate of those missing. It is estimated now that a total of 3,600 persons were killed and 1,200 persons injured, the majority of them fatally, by the disastrous crush. In the afternoon the Czar and Czarina visited' the Marie hospital, where they spoke to and consoled the patients injured in Saturday’s crush.