Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Turkish battalions at Y&dah;' whnr have received no pa/ since 1894; refuse to. leave for Crete, and hare barricaded themselves in Ike mosque. The Spanish Chamber of Deputies defeated a Carlist amendment to. the ad-’ dress., in reply to the speech from the to the effect that Spain ought to

Join the Franco-Russo alliance, in conformity with the cxigerries of her colonial and Mediterranean, interests and in order to resis. the 7‘pcrfidy of tlftc United States.” The'French Government has agreed to close- no contracts with the 'Diamond Match Company for sjxty.days provided the Continental Match Company agrees to send complef: outfit within that time. President Jlarber of the Diamond Match Company is endeavoring to discredit the ' Continental system, President Edwin Gould of the latter company has agreed to send his machinery to Paris at onee. Coion. Colombia, dispatch:' The sudden mobilizatiop of troops on the isthmus causes consternation and alarm. The newspapers believe that trouble is expected. A Bluefield correspondent says that, owing to oppression, tire Indians are with difficulty kept from the warpath. The Nicaraguan Government has reason to fear art outbreak soon. Chief Clarence's former supporter has accepted a government, position, thus reducing Clarence’s chances of restoration. The question of the cession or sale bf the Danish Antilles Islands engrosses public attention. The Daqish government would be delighted to dispose of them to the American government, since they cost about $200,000 yearly and yield no commercial advantage. Nevertheless, the Copenhagen ; Cabinet' ’has no intention Of taking the initiative in the matter of propositions, but expects America Id' do this, and there is no doubt such suggestion will meet a good reception. The Italian brig Diadem, Swedish bark Sven, and Norwegian bark Johan Lndvig were blown ashore in Pensacola Bay, off Mobile, Ala., during a severe sfbrm Wednesday. The wind blew from the northeast at seventy-two miles an hour and their changed to the northwest, and blew 100 milt's an hour, Pensacola being the eenter of the storm. The Merchants’ Hotel, on Palafox street, the Methodist Church, and nearly every.,business'hpuse were unroofed. The streets wore made impassable by the fallen trees. No street cars are running. All wires are down, the nearest telegraph station working being at Flomaton. The Pensacola and Atlantic division of the Louisville and ~Nashvilie is washed out in places. The damage is fully $250,000. Sir John Pender, the cable magnate, head., of the Eastern',- the Eastern Extension, .the Cape, the Anglo-American, and other cable companies, who had been ill for some time past, died at London Tuesday Afternoon. John Pender was a highly educated Scotchman, born in Dumbartoimhire in 1816. When the project of an Atlantic cable was first broaclit-d in England he became at once an 1 enthusiastic advocate of the scheme. He was one ot the 345 persons who contributed $5,000 apiece to experiment in laying an ocean cable. John Pender occupied- in England the same position as. his illustrious colleague, Cyrus IV. Field, did in the United States, and both men won and held the esteem and gratitude of their fellow-eountryinen. When the American Submarine Telegraphic system was esttrtrtislied Pender set' inbout introducing the same plan, of sea cable in ofher. directions, ,ind was chiefly instrumeptal in bringing about tjie Mediterranean,:., India, China, Australiah, South Afric;u),iaind direct African cables. In recognition of his distinguished services tq. humanity he. was knighted .by the Queen, and received the highest decorations at the hands ofi&eyeral other sovereigns. 110 was first elected to I’arliament in 1862, and sat almost continuous!}’ as a member until the time of his death. .