Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Louise Michel, the French anarchist, has been expelled from Brussels. The revolutionists in Guatemala have captured Quezaltenango and are now masters of the situation. M. Jules Cambon, governor general of Algeria, has been appointed French ambassador to Great Britain. General Andrade, former Venezuelan minister to the United States, has been elected president of Venzuela. Louise Michel, the French anarchist who contemplates coming to America, will be barred out because of a felony. King Christian of Denmark, who is 80 years .old, fell down a spiral staircase in Middclgrunde fortress and painfully injured his face. A sharp conflict took place within sight of Managua, a suburb of Havana, and the Spanish are said to have been defeated by the Cubans. Sarah Bernhardt had a narrow’ escape from drowning at Belleisle-en-Mer, but was rescued by Marquis d'Harancourt, who was badly injured. 5 The London Times correspondent at Buenos Ayres says it is feared there that the Argentine harvest will be almost entirely destroyed by locusts. Through the overflowing of, the River Jabelou in Spain many houses were ruin-

ed and a number of lives lost. Damage to property is about SIOO,OOO. Emperor William now wants Queen Victoria to visit him in Germany. The ambassadors of the powers at Constantinople have agreed to terms of peace between Turkey and Greece on the basis of Lord Salisbury’s propositions. Guatemala rebels are attacking (he City of Quezaltenango and probably will capture it. The rebellion is led by men of wealth and influence and is gaining strength daily. The Austrian consul at Philadelphia has written to his secretary in Hazleton, Pa., Dr. Theodorovitch. Legal proceedings, the communication says, will be instituted against the-United States in $50,000 damages for each life lost in the Lettimer shooting. A tremendous explosion occurred at the camp close by the Chinese arsenal at Kiangnan, near Shanghai. Forty bodies were dug out of the debris, Two firie Krupp field guns, 1,000 new pattern single fire and magazine rifles, with 120,000 cartridges, were destroyed. It is reported that the text of the revised treaty of peace fixes the indemnity to be paid by Greece to Turkey at £4,000,000. It is provided that the state of war shall cease as soon as the preliminary act is signed and that the evacuation of Thessaly by Turkish troops shall take place a mouth after the powers shall have recognized the treaty. Within a very few weeks Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, at present military attache of the United States embassy at London, will be court-martialed on the charge of discrepancies in his accounts as engineer officer while for some stationed at Savannah, Ga. Capt. Carter’s discrepancies are said to aggregate sl,000,000. He was ordered home by cable. The Spanish war department is concentrating 6,000 troops with the intention of immediately dispatching them as re-en-forcements to Spain’s army in Cuba. This sudden activity indicates that the government means to have men enough on the island to repel an American invasion if war between Spain and the United States grows out of President McKinley’s negotiations for peace in Cuba. The London Times’ correspondent at San Sebastian comments upon the “almost complete indifference displayed by representative 1 men regarding the extremely critical political situation.” Continuing, he says: “Experience forces the conviction that Cuba will never be pacified by military operations. The question arises whether the United States could be induced to stop American supplies to the insurgents; If so, there is no doubt the r<*l>cllion would soon collapse.” Recent Havana advices say that the inhabitants of the city are avithphi meat. Milk also is very scarce. Orily the 4ick in the hospitals are supplied regularly with either article. In accordance with his agreement made when Victoria de las Tunas was captured, Gen. CaliXto Garcia Las delivered up 79 prinoners at Holguin, 12 at Canto Embarcadero, 76 at Puerto Principe, and about 100 sick and wounded near Puerto Padre.i At daybreak on Monday Col. Lacoste ’.vith a body of Spanish fell suddenly upon the camp of the insurgent Gen. Castillos, at Santo Cristobal, province of Havana, simultaneously attacking the front and rear. The insurgents were oyrii'powered and abandoned their position, losing sixteen killed and eleven seriously wounded. The Spanish losses were six killed and thirteen wounded. The insurgent genral, Perico Diaz, and Leander Gallo, have made a successful raid in NVeyler’s valley in southeast Pinar del Rio, destroying the tobacco plants and houses, macheftng ten, wounding seventeen, and capturing eighteen and lynching two merchants.