Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

United States Minister Albert S.'Willis will return to Hawaii the latter part of thia month. Spain has bought two Italian warships, paying the Enormous.price of $3,500,000 for eai,-h-of them. 1 ' The drought in some of the provinces of Russia and excessive rains in otbers have destroyed all hopes of a good harvest, and it will nowhere be above the average. A dispatch from Ilfracombe, the 'well-, knowm bathing place on the north coast of Devonshire, Eng., announces that half the business portion ..of that port W"dS burned, involving a loss estimated*!o amount to $500,000. There was ho loss of life. A large body of Mussulmans, supported by Turkish trobps, engaged in pillagiftg the Adoinati district of the Island of (’rote, has been attacked by a force of 1,500 insurgents. "J'he latter drove the MussulnillUs and the Turkish troops out ..of the district and inflicted serious loss upon them. The jury in the Jameson .South Africa Case at London returned a verdict that all the defendants had been found guilty of the charge of violating the neutrality laws in invading the territory of the South African republic. Besides Dr. Jamesou, .the defendants were: Major Sir John Willoughby, Col. R. Grey, Col. H. F. White, "Major 11. White aTOd'Captaii’i Henry F. Coveiitry. Dr. Jameson was sentenced td fifteen mouths' imprisonment without labor, Sir John Willoughby to ten months’ imprisonmeut, Major R. White to seven months’ impristinmcnt and Captain Henry F. Coventry, Col. R. Grey and Col. 11. F. White to live months’ imprisonment each. Lord Russell’s remarks Were distinctly hostile to the defendants. He began by pointing out that there was no dinibl (be in'isoiieis iiatl t;tken part in <l>~ -abetted the proceedings at - Pitsani and Mateking, where the invading forces were mustered preparatory to entering the Transvaal. It was entirely unimportant, in’ tihe opinion of Lord Rnssell, whether the"’foreign enlistment act had been proclaimed at the places named .iu 1895. There was no doubt the expedition Was of a military character, and whether it was aimed to overthrow the Transvaal government or to force a change of the laws in, the interests of others, it was .equally an expedition against a friendly State.