Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Six customs, officials have been arrested at Constantinople for circulating pamphlets of the young Turk party. Jules Cambon, governor general of Algeria, is to succeed M. Patenotre as French ambassador at Washington. Russia has promised to support Afghanistan in the event of Great Britain encroaching on the ameer's territory. Guatemala has offered 8100,000 for the heads of Prospero Morales, the revolutionary leader, and his aid, Manuel Fuentes. Charles Belmont Davis, United States consul at Florence, Italy, lias resigned that position to become a member of a business firm in New York. Greece has received the text of the peace treaty with Turkey, with a request that the Government appoint plenipotentiaries to complete the negotiations. The torpedo boat destroyers Lynx and Thrasher of the British navy ran aground on Dodman’s Point in a fog. The Thrash-*' er broke in two and three stokers were killed. The Greek cabinet has resigned, the boule having refused a vote of confidence before discussing the treaty with Turkey arranged by the representatives of the powers. Criminal proceedings have been commenced against the Frankfort Zeitung, on the charge of lose majeste, for criticising the alleged erratic course of Emperor William. The London Globe says it hears the pope’s weakness is increasing and that the church dignitaries are afraid he will not rally from the extreme feebleness and exhaustion he new betrays. It has been recommended to the State Department at Washington by United States Consul Read at Tien-Tsin that the question of including Peking in the list of treaty ports be taken into consideration. Yokohama, Japan;, papers contain full accounts of a severe storm which passed over the country, and reports of great havoc are coming in from all quarters. At the latest date 373 huusp4 were totally destroyed in Tokyo, 7,728 partially damaged and 14,043 submerged. Notwithstanding contradictory reports, Sir Julian Pauneefote will return to Washington in time for the Bering Sea conference. The staff of the British embassy, now at Manehester-by-the-Sea, will return sooner, and, according to present plans, the entire British representation will be there when the seal conference is held. Despite denials, the rumor is persistently circulated in Valparaiso, Chili, on the authority of those who are presumably in a position to know, that Chili is on the eve of serious international troubles with Argentine and Peru. It is stated in Valparaiso that Argentine, Peru and Bolivia have been secretly negotiating a treaty which it 5s believed is hostile to Chili. The legation of Guatemala at Washington has received the following telegram: "Revolution broke out on the 7th in San Marcos and later iu Queznltennngo and other towns. Port of Ocas recaptured by government forces. Rebels attacked Totonieapan and were repulsed. They now concentrate in Quezaltenango, which will soon be besieged by loyal forces.” The Spanish cabinet has resigned and the queen has accepted the resignations. She has, however, asked Gen. Azcarrnga

to continue in office until a solution of the crisis is fpund. Her majesty will summon the leaders of the various parties and the presidents of the chamber td Madrid, to consult as to the situation. Senor Sagasta has been telegraphed for, and it is believed that the Liberal leader will be asked to form a cabinet. The distrust of Japan felt by the administration at Washington is well illustrated by the correspondence which has passed" between Rear Admiral Miller, commander-in-chief of the naval force in Hawaiian waters, and the Navy Department. A steamer which lately arrived in San Francisco brought advices from Admiral Miller to the department that the Japanese cruiser Nanivva had left Honolulu for. Yokohama. Notwithstanding this assertion, so fearful were the authorities that the Japanese had simply attempted to hoodwink the American officials of the cruiser Philadelphia, and thus leave a comparatively free field for the Naniwa on her return, that the gunboat Wheeling was directed to proceed post haste to Honolulu with instructions to delay the departure of the Philadelphia until Rear Admiral Miller had positively assured himself that the Mikado’s ship had really proceeded to Japan.