Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

At Barcelona an additional brftch of anarchists was sentenced. Forty of them were condemned to twenty years’ imprisonn>ent atfd twenty-eight to. eight years in prison. ‘ —EI-H'eraldo asserts that the minister of war at Madrid, General Azcarraga, is preparing numerous pamphlets on tlie geogratihy, toprography and miltary condition of the United States "to the chief ollicers of the Spanish armyi A special dispatch from Paris says it -is suggested that Great Britain, France and Italy, the three powers.most interested. offer their services in the Cuban ■luesthu-, in order to prevent a conflict between ( Spain anti the United States and to terminate the revolt. There is a big field in Germany for American rubbers, says . United. States Consul Morioghan at Chemnitz in a report' to the' State Department. At p©?sent lUissiu is supplying most of the rub--bers--wnrH—iii—t4erina-ity;—selHng-thi'mtgh agencies ail over the empire, hut neither the Russian nor the German made article is as good as the American, product, being clumsy and lacking in durability, although it commands the market just now by reasou of its lower pru e.