Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

, a ■ . .a tk > , < , • Carlos EzeU ej-jiresideqt of San Salvador, narrow J escaped death at Sart*' ■Francisco at/tat' hands of PedW Jimnes, a Salvadorian, who jxnnted a pistol W liitf, head and pullei the trigger, but the.wea*' •pon failed to explode. A dispatch from BuluwM.ro to the London Daily Telegraph ay ya that 1.5U0 friendly natives have joined the revolt in Matabelelaud. The news received ut Bulawayo from Salisbury is very bad. It Is said that rhe camptires Mashonas •re visible close to the laager andtfeat an attack H expected. . .. • t ■ A dispatch received at Athens from Crete says Use Turkish authorities there

gradually extending the military zone and occupying tew positions daily.'Many excesses a~e being committed Jt>y. the Turks.- A patty of Christian* who ventured to enter the So-called military zone were murdered by the Turks. An attempt was made at Paris to assassinate President Faure Tuesday. The president had gone to irnngchanips to review the troops. He had no sooner entered thfefield when u man in the crowd stepped forward and fired twice with a revolver at him. The shots did not take effect *s4ie would-be assassin was at once arrested, lie’declared that he had only fired a blank cartridge, and that he had".no intention of killing the president Atl}eii£ dispatch: The Turks have massacred a .number oi-Christians in the, Cretan jtrovinees of Sphakia, Retinio and Jlydoma.. They have also destroyed sevral villages with theif - vineyards. ■ Under the-pretekt of recovering jhe bodies Of the iMtvkisKJailote Who were killed on fate shore a body of Turkish troops tried to advance to Apokoron. They were twice repulsed by the Christians. Tfcie military authorities are acting contrary to the wishes of the Vali arid the instructions received from Coiistantir nople. .-The-•Mussulman population ils working actively with the. Turkish army, with-the usual vexatious results. Seven men"and two .women who were engaged as harvesters, have’been massacred at Kostnni. Reports come in giving an account, of fighting and pillaging lit five Other villages. These have rendered the ' Consuls and the native Christians pessimistic regarding the possibility of making peace.

The greater portion of the labors of Mr. Breckinridge, Minister to Russia, during life last year, ass revealed by the published foreign relations of the United States, seem to have fpuowed an instruction from the State Department to protest against the practice of th» Russian Consuls in the United Stales of ref using to vise passports of American citizens going to Russia if they happened tp be qf the Jewish faith. At this point where the, publication closes he fias obliged/to bluntly inform the Russian Government that the Unjted Stages could not aetjuiesee in the operation of such foreign tribunals in the United States. Mr. Breckinridge’s presentation of the case was fortpally ap,proved by Secretary Olney. Another important subject considered was the absolute insistence of the Russian Government upon its rights to punish any Russian who falls, into its power lifter becoming a citjWn of the United States or any/ jothor country. The correspon denee —on this subject w::»;'sb^epifit<Sl as to lead Minjster Breckinridge to complain to Secretary Olney that Prince Lobanow’s note to him had,been lacking in pourtesy. As the matter stands the Russian G'qvernnientjrests firmly in its right to punish Russians tvbo become United States clli; zens if they return to Russili. Meanwhile' Mr. Bieekinridge prudentfy suggests that pioper warning be given to R usqia nsji at nr.; 1 i zed i n th c Uui ted States to keep away from Russia.