Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Barril, the anarchist who shot the Barcelona police officials, has been sentenced to forty years’ imprisonment. The meeting of the Constitutional convention of Cuba, which was to have met at Camaguey, has been postponed. It is announced on good authority that the Spanish Ministry will go out within two weeks and will be succeeded by a Liberal Cabinet headed by Senor Sagasta. It is reported at Janirud that the haddah mullah has gone to his home and that his followers have dispersed, because the Halimzai Mohmands refused to join in the uprising. ‘r —■ The Colombian Government, it is reported, has transferred to the Government of Great Britain the franchise for the completion of the Panama Canal, abandoned by the French. The crisis in the grain trade in Southern Russia has been enhanced by the influx of a half score of Hungarian commissioners, who are purchasing wheat at any price at which they can obtain it. Premier Ascarraga denies having written to tbe leaders of the political parties saying that the Government at Havana would prefer war with the United States to the intervention of that country in the affairs of Cuba. Consul Monoghan, at Chemnitz, has informed the State Department that Germany is steadily increasing her trade with Mexico, and that for 1896 it amounted to more than in 1895, -when it was 16,300,000 marks. Sempan, the anarchist who shot Barcelona police officials, was retried by the court martial and sentenced to death. It is expected the supreme council of war will annul this and indorse the former sentence of forty years’ imprisonment. The admirals in command of the fleets of the powers in Cretan waters have decided to raise the blockade of the island, the cause necessitating the blockade hav-

ing disappeared and the insurgents having accepted the autonomous form of government. A dispatch from London says: “A panic is spreading throughout Ireland over the terrible prospect of the apparently complete failuraof the harvest. Reports from 110 parish priests from counties Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Antrim, Armagh, Cavan/ Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone, all tell the same piteous story of ruined crops, impending destitution and famine,” The Hawaiian annexationists are very much worried over "the difficulty of an alleged attempt on the part of the anti-an-nexationists to influence Senators Morgan jand Quay who are there on a tour of investigation. They say that Senators White of California and Thurston of Nebraska, who will lead the fight against annexation in Congress this winter, will also visit Hawaii and attend the mass meeting of natives, which, it is alleged by the annexationists, has been called for the purpose of convincing Morgan and Quay that the natives bitterly oppose annexation. It is stated that Senators White and Thurston will superintend the drafting of a monster petition to Congress, in which the Hawaiians will assert that the government was torn from them through the action of American Minister Stevens. It is also alleged that the mass meeting will be conducted entirely by Hawaiians, and will be made as dramatic as possible. The idea is to work, upon the sympathies of Senator Morgan and to persuade him, if possible, that the natives have been deprived of lands and power by a handful of rich and powerful whites, backed by a treacherous American minister. It is believed that ex-Queen Liliuokalani may arrive on the same steamer as the Senators, and that she will address the people at the mass meeting.