Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Among the leaders in both branches of Congress there seems to be a growing disposition to leave the Cuban question, “up in the air,” where the President put it. Returns from 100 trade unions, with an aggregate of 500,000 members, to the labor department of the British Government Board of Trade-for the month ending Nov. 15 show that the percentage of unemployed continues to diminish. The showing would have been much more favorable had there been included the results *’6f the activity in the shipbuilding trade that developed during the last two weeks of the last month. , In these 10 Trade organizations only 3 per cent, of the membership is reported as unemployed for the month, as against nearly 14 per cent, a year ago. This showing is the most favorable and remarkable’of any that has been issued sinpe the establishment of the labor bureau of statistics by the Government some years ago. Vigo. Spain, dispatch: The North German Lloyd steamer Salier was lost off Corunnas Corrobedo. All hands were drowned. There were 210 passengers on board. Her crew was composed of sixty-five men. All on board, passenr gers and crew,, perished. The Saber's passengers consisted of 113 Russians, thirty-five Galicians, sixty-one Spaniards, and one German. The Salier was bound from Bremen to Buenos Ayres, via Corunna and Viliagariea. The passengers were mostly in the steerage. The Corrobedo rocks, on which, it is believed, the Salier was lost, are situated off . the southwest coast of Corunna and should have been given a wide berth Before the steamer headed eastward, and then in a northeasterly direction -for the bay leading up to Viliagariea. It, is stated in most positive terms by the Spanish authorities at Havana that Antonio Maceo, the great insurgent leader and the heart and soul of the Cuban cause, has boon killed iu Havana province. after having effected the passage of the western trocha, near Muriel, at its northern extremity. » With the Cuban leader died Francisco Gomez, son of Maximo Gomez, who accompanied the mulatto general on his passage of the trocha. Most explicit details of the finding of the bodies of the fallen Cubans and of the facts relied upon for their identification are at hand through the report of the Spanish com uiander, Maj. -Cmijedn, whoeontested the passage of the trocha unsuccessfully on Dec. 4 with Maceo, an.l who sustained another conflict Monday with the forces under the insurgent leader. It was in g reeonnoissance after the latter engagement that the ..Spaniards found the two corpses, which '4]icy have identified as those of Antonio Maceo and Francisco Gomez.