Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Sultan of Turkey has sent rich presents to the Ameer of Afghanistan. Mayor I’astoureau of Toulon was stabbed and dangerously wounded by a Corsican. Nicaragua business men have petitioned the government to put the country on a gold basis. It is rumored that Murad Bey, loader of the young Turks, has either fled or been done away with. The Spanish government is formulating a plan to bring about the banishment of all Anarchists from Spain. The-Spanish, cabinet has decided to call out 80,000 reserves, more than a third of whom will be sent to Cuba. A Buenos Ayres correspondent says that reports from all agricultural centers indicate an increase of fully 20 per cent in the wheat area of the country. The'Czar is said to have decided upon the partial abolition of the exile to Siberia of criminals and the substitution of confinement in large central prisons in Russia. Lord Salisbury’s proposal for a joint guaranty of the indemnity to be paid to Turkey by Greece has fallen through owing to Russia’s reluctance and Germany’s jealousy. An outbreak is reported among the Moplars, or fanatical Mohammedans, of the Malabar coast. It has not yet assumed serious proportions. Malabar is a district of India. A dispatch from Montreux, Switzerland, announces that an asylum for the insane which was in course of erection there collapsed, burying a number of workmen in the ruins. Japan is secretly negotiating with the diet of the Greater Republic of South America for the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, independent of and in defiance of the interests and influence of the United States. The thunderstorms and rains which have prevailed for the week throughout Great Britain and the continent culminated in a severe gale, which did much damage to trees and crops, resulting in numerous shipping casualties to the English channel and. flooded many parts of the Thames Valley. A very silly story has been published about Japan intriguing to get control of .the Nicaragua canal. It is so pronounced at the State Department and the

Japanese legation. Some time ago Japan received a communication from the greater Central American republic that she assist in guaranteeing the construction and neutiality of the canal project. But Japan, instead of taking steps to that end, immediately replied that she would do nothing in the matter without the consent and co-operation of the United States. At the same time Japan notified this country of the communication.