Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Spanish Government is inviting tenders in England for the construction of a floating dock at Havana. Serious floods have caused much damage on the Mosquito coast. Several villages have been destroyed, the telegraph lines to Grevtowu are down and the Colombian schooner Pioneer, trading between Colon and Blue fields, , has been lost. The attempts to cause riotous .demonstrations.against the govornmenrvontinue at Valencia. That city Sunday was placarded with posters reading: "Long Live Free Cuba," “fjong Live the Social Revolution.” etc. The placards were removed by the |k>lice. Au Italian man-of-War has captured off the const of Erythrea the Dutch steamer Doelwyk, laden with 34,000 rifles, which an- suppoai-d to be of Belgian manufacture and which were destined for Abyssluin. The sleamer and hjßr cargo ~will be taken by the Italian warship to the Magsowa. . Several aperial donferenee* between Prince liobandff Rostovsky, the Russian minister for foreign affairs, and the other mihkrters have resulted in a decision to

continue the Behring sealing agreements of 1803. and 1894. but to make overtures to the United States, Great Britain and.,, Japan, with the view of establishing better protection for the seals. f The provincial newspapers of Italy demand that' the Government take action rcgarding. the Hahnoville, La., lynching. The Corrierp Della Sera of Milan declares that until Americans are willing and able to protect the' lives of Eufo : peaus they had better, close their ports entirely to the immigration of whites as a bid against Chinese cheap labor, adding: •"Events such as have occurred at New Orleans and now at Habneyille cannot be tolerated by nations having any pretense of civilization.” 1 • * One of the United States consular officers stationed in Germany has sought to attract the attention of American mSinu facturers to the dagger of accepting resident Germans as agents for the sale of their wares without taking precautions to learn something of the character of the person selected, lie cites the ease of a firm of Oswego pump makers, who gave the agency lor the sale of Their goods in Germany to what they supposed to be a reputable firm, and filled with satisfaction and expectation an order for rfix of their finest pumps to start the trade. The German agent turned out to he engaged in the same line of business—pump making—and he took the American pumps apart and, using them as patterns, made duplicates in numbers for the German market. There was no way to reach and -punish this character of fraud, so the consul seeks to warn American merchants against like deceptions. Prof. Otto Liliehthal. the well-known inventor, of Berlin, died Tuesday from the effects of a fall from Ids flying ma-ehiner-r-Tfae—machine, which is whaTJiC called- a “double decker,” upset while it was at a sharp angle, the pressure of air being thus thrown upon tjie front of tlie apparatus. Lilienthal had planned an attachment for restoring the balance in such cases, and this was the last ascent he intended to make in the old machine. He believed there was no danger, as he thought by leaning backward toward the tail of the apparatus he would counterbalance the Weight in front. His attendant says the aAfonaiit rose fifteen meters. Suddenly the machine stopped, and Lilienthal threw himself toward the rear. The apparatus turned several somersaults, nnd finally shot down like a ,rockef, Lilienthal striking the ground head first. He survived twenty-four hours, feeling no pain, his spine being broken. —His last words were: “Mine is the true inventor's death. 1 :un satisfied to die in the interest of science.” Experiments were made with one of the Lilienthal flying machines on Staten Island last'April and May. Harry B. Bodine, of New Jersey, made several-trips in the machine, and found great difficult v in maintaining the center of balance.