Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The sultan is making efforts to obtain the withdrawal of American missionaries from the interior of Asia Minor. The rebellion in the eastern part of Guatemala is becoming very serious and the insurgents are encamped not far from the capital. The London Daily News says thqre is a good prospect of a general treaty of arbitration between Great Britain and the United States. Oil is now used as fuel for the Cromer express on the Great Eastern Railway in England, which runs 130 miles at the rate of 78% miles an hour. The steamrhip Hesperides is ashore on Outer Diamond shoals, off Cape Hatteras, and the vessel will be u total loss, with her cargo of pig iron. Rheinbold Stenzel, editor of the Hamburg Echo, has been sentenced to eight

months is jail for leze majesty against King Leopold of Belgium. A German shop keeper in Valparaiso, Chili, has been fined and imprisoned for exhibiting a small copy of the famous group, “The Three Graces.” It is stated in Paris that an association has been formed in the United States to secure the escape of Captain Albert Dreyfus from his prison on the Isle du Salut. Spain’s reply to Minister Woodford’s note has been prepared, and says that while Spain cannot set a date for the ending of the Cuban war, it believes its new plans will soon result in pacification of the island. The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard says it is asserted there that Russia, Japan and the United States have already assented to the assumption of the title of emperor by the King of Corea, but China intends to protest The British foreign office officials appeared to be astonished at what they termed the “tone of surprise” assumed by Secretary Sherman in his reply to the note of the Marquis of Salisbury expressing Great Britain’s declination to be represented in the conference with Russia and Japan. The officials reiterate that the Marquis of Salisbury agreed to join in a conference of sealing experts representing the United States, Canada and Great Britain, but, they add, he did not agree to take part in a conference nn the subject with Russia and Japan. The foreign officials will be unable to say what the British Government is prepared to do until Secretary Sherman’s latest dispatch on the conference is received. The Times comments as follows: “Allowing for the peculiarities of American diplomacy, there is no reason to quarrel with Secretary Sherman’s reply on the subject of the Bering Sea conference. We entirely disbelieve that Lord Salisbury in his oral communications with Ambassador Hay ever departed from the position adopted in his final note of July 28. But it is unnecessary to deal seriously with expressions of astonishment obviously intended to cover the failure of an attempt to bluff the British Government in a manner disapproved by the leading organs of American opinion.”