Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Fifty sailors from a Japanese warship at Antwerp mutinied Sunday evening, landed and attacked the police. The mutineers were overcome and, the ship is now guarded by a detachment of police. While there is no confirmation at Paris of the report that the Marquis de Mores, who recently left there for t.he mysterious Saharan City of Rhat, has been murdered, with practically his entire caravan, toward South Tripoli, by a native tribe, the story is generally believed, According to Explorer Hess, in Figaro, the Marquis had a presentiment that his anti-English campaign in "French Africa might cost him his life during this exploring expedition. i In the Spanisfi" Senate Senor Girneno asked that the documents exchanged between the governments at Washington and Madrid on the recent events in Cuba might be communicated to the House. The minister of foreign affairs replied that he could not make the diplomatic documents public, ‘ President Cleveland also had been asked, but refused, to communicate them to Congress. He declared that the relations between Spain and the United States were friendly and cordial. While United States Minister Breckinridge possibly overstepped American diplomatic rules in order to please the czar during the coronation festivities. Count Montebelle, the French ambassador, preferred to ignore the pleasure of the court When congratulating the czarina. Count Montebelle shook her hand instead of kissing it, like the rest of the diplomats, and to ptinish him the czarina did not permit him to take her hand at the ball at the ,French embassy during a polonaise. The incident is the sole topic of conversation in St. Petersburg society, and their majesties are feeling decidedly ungracious toward thFoffetTdingFrenchambassador, who excuses his behavior on the ground of his instructions.

London dispatch: The News Tuesday says: “The Junta of the Cuban revolutionists are men of fewer words than their Spanish opponents, but they now assert that they have something to say, and have accordingly said it. They announce that they have broken the Spanish fortified line and that Gomez is at the gates of Havana. If it is not true they will look foolish; if it is the Spanish generals will appear in that light. We shall know soon one way or the other. The Spanish authorities hitherto have had the dispatch of news from the island all to themselves, but their average of about one a quarter government victories a day may be regarded as rather too high. Gomez is the leader who baffled Campos last summer. The marshal threw 30.000 men across the island to prevent the insurrection from spreading to Puerto Principe. Gomez with 250 "men made a feint at two separate points and then passed through the middle of the line without losing a man. His present success may be a fable, but this is history.” Some time ago at London, the Hon. James Bourke Roche instituted a suit for libel against the proprietors of Burke’s Peerage for an entry in that publication to the effect that he had been divorced from his wife, who was a daughter of Frank Work of New York,. The proprietors of Burke’s Peerage have now consented to the verdict against them on the point and it will be moved to accept this verdict bn the understanding by the proprietors of Burke’s Peerage to pay Roche’s costs, publish an apology in the newspapers, give a nominal sum to charity, and promise to refuse to sell all of the remaining numbers of the Peerage containing the entry. When Bourke Roche entered a libel suit against William Redmond’s Dublin newspaper for a similar statement the principal defense filed was that Burke’s Peerage had also published the allegation'of his being divorced without apparently having been challenged by him. This was the origin of his suit against Burke’s Peerage, and the verdict now consented to will place Redmond’s paper in an awkward predicament.