Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Four persons were killed at Nanterre, France, as the result of a boiler explosion in a carbon factory. The damage amounts to SIOO,OOO. The Beaver Line steamer Lake Ontario, Capt. Campbell, from Montreal for “Liverpool. was so delayed by violent gales and head seas that her coal supply became exhausted and she was compelled to put into Queenstown Li Hung Chang is in trouble again, and is said to have contemplated resigning his official position. The Emperor of China has deprived him of a year’s salary because he entered the imperial park and hunting-ground without permission. Fire in Forster Square, Bradford, London, a big triangular block occupied by forty finds, caused damage which exceeds <51,500,000. The fire originated in Johns Holdsworth & Sons’ block, which was, almost gutted. The offices of the Anglo-American and Commercial Cable Companies and about forty firms were burned out. The massacre, of,Senor Cecchi, the Italian consul at Zanzibar, the captain's of the; Italian worships Volturno and Staffetta, and six other Italian officers by the Somalis at Magadoxo oh the coast of Somaliland, East Africa, took place Saturday,,Nov. 28. The party was accompanied by seventy-Askaris, and was jon a trip into the country outside of Magadoxo When the Semalis attacked the Italians.'Jiilled all the whites and also killed -Hrirt'xbt the Askir.as: —— '■ 7. £.■ —— .