Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Butter-making In one minute, with economy aud with many valuable safeguards from disease, as compared with the oldfashioned churning system, is something that United States Consul O’Neill at Stockholm tells of in a report to the State Department. This is done by a simple machine known as the radiator invented by a Swedish engineer ahd described and illustrated by the Consul. It makes the butter directly from sterilized milk. The machine has been in use several months and promises to revolutionize butter-mak-ing. Pretoria dispatch: At a special meeting of the executive council it was decided to release John Hays Hammond, Col. Rhodes, George Farrtrr and J. W. Leonard, the leaders of the Johannesburg reform committee, upon the payment of a fine of $125,000 each, or in default, fifteen years’ banishment. London advices say: The conditions of their release were the same as imposed upon the pt her reformci's. United States Vice-Consul Knight at Cape Town. South Africa, reported by .cable to the State Department that the imprisoned reform leaders had been released. The cablegram wgs as follows: "Reform leaders released. Fined £25,000. No banishment.” This finally closes the Hammond incident. The town >of Giianabacoa, just across the bay from Havana, Cuba, was considerably excited Monday by an insurgent band burning various public buildings at a point in the suburbs known as Cucuranao. The band exchanged shots with the government pickets. The insurgents made unsuccessful attacks upon the government outposts at Gabriel, Ceiba de "Lagua and various points along the Pinar del It,o trocha, burning adjacent houses in their retreat. The government is hurjiedly re-enforcing the old military trocha from Moron to Oiego de Avila in the hope of preventing Go‘me2 from, reinvadiog the central provinces with fresh insurgent forces from the East. Patriotic Spanish merchants in Havana, Cienfugos and other Cuban ports are raising funds to buy a!nd present to the Government a new ironclad. Tbe subscription already exceeds $850,000. Taking as his starting point the official announcement of the annexation by France of Timboo. the principal place in the Djallon country, a district larger than the State of Pennsylvania aud quite as fertile, United States Consul Strickland, at Goree-Dakar, has made a most interesting report to the State Department upon the dange.rs threatening the United States trade with Africa, owing to tire" rapid extension of the colonial possessions of the European nations. Ho shows how the French,, by the imposition of a discriminating duty Of 7 per cent, against foreign goods, have monopolized the markets of the French coforiies and have thus crushed out the lucrative and growing trade which the United States already enjoyed in that part of the’ world. He says that the process has now begun of fortifying perhaps th® whole continent of Africa against us by protective taritts; for if one nation can even now do it with effect, the remainder will in time have to in order to, equalize things among themselves. ' '