Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Cavendish, who has been exploring Africa, has arrived safely in London. Petroleum springs near* Baku, Russia, ha ve ca ugh t fi re and Ihe wlio'e va Hey is a sea of flames. W. Hughes, correspondent of Black and White of London, has starved to death in Havana. He was maltreated and robbed by guerrillas and lost his passport. The German Government, it is understood, has decided to rearm the entire infantry with the new six-millitmeter rifle, said to surpass the weapons of all other States. The German Government has granted the exequatur of Benjamin Nausbaum as Pennsylvania, recently appointed consul at Munich, against whom there Was a strong fight. The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says that Count Lyof Tolstoi, the Russian author and social reformer, is suffering from an illness which will necessitate the performance of a serious operation. Gen. Weyler. has ordered the release from the Isle of Pines of eleven prisoners, who were, it was alleged, concerned in the uprising which resulted in the imprisonment of Senprita Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros. A dispatch from Honolulu states that it has been definitely decided among the Hawaiians opposing annexation that a commission of five men should be sent to Washington to make a determined fight against the ratification of the annexation treaty. At least three Hawaiian societies will give their support to the movement. It is generally understood that. J. O. Carter, a white man, will head the commission. A prominent citizen Who has recently returned from Germany says that the Hawaiian annexation question is receiving sfime consideration among the German people. A number of prominent Germans expressed themselves in favor of the amalgamation of tin* two republics. In that event they think Germany should be allowed to take Samoa without interference. on the part of the United States. Germany, they claim, has as much right to absorb Samoa as Unde Sam has to take in Hawaii.

Marshal Blanco just before sailing from Spain said he was confident of restoring peace to Cuba ere long. The war, one of his generals thinks, will be ended in seven months. Gen. Fitzhugh I.ee, consul general in Cuba, has announced to his friends that he expects to return to Cuba from Washington about Dec. 5 and remain until the conclusion of the Cuban war. Mr. .McKinley has decided to make no changes of consular officers On the island until the rebellion in one way or another is brought to an end. The interests of this country and its citizens in Cuba will, the President believes, be better subserved by officers who have had experience on the island. In the belief that Congress, when it convenes, will desire information as to the attitude of the administration upon Cuban affairs, the President is keeping himself thoroughly posted, and is seeking information from all reliable sources in order that he may formulate his policy in accordance with the developments from time to time. The tension between Japan and the

Hawaiian Government has been Increased. Settlement of the immigration dispute is Blocked and no one now ventures an opinion touching the outcome. The Dole government has put its foot down against accepting a treaty formulated by Count Okunia for arbitrating the affair. This convention is all on Japan’s side and practically commits the Government of Hawaii to the position that it has erred in preventing the landing of Japanese coolies. Minister of Foreign Affairs Cooper had a rather exciting interview with the Japanese representative. Mr. Shimamura. touching the demands of the mikado. The Japanese minister was informed that there must be material modification of the treaty before it would be acceptable 4o President Dole and to his cabinet. In fact. Japanese newspapers predicted that the treaty as drawn up at Ycddo would be laughed to scorn in Honolulu. Minister Hatch has sailed, carrying important information to President McKinley. There is trouble in the Austrian unterhaus at Yie.nna, and it .is believed that if the members of the left-continue m their efforts to obstruct legislation Count Baden! will resign, in which event a new ministry will be formed. The recent riotous proceedings are virtually a continuance of the hostile demonstrations which marked the opening of the reichsrath Sept. 23. These as was the case with the funner ones, are direct ed against the cabinet, and grow out of the ill feeling between the Bohemian-Ger-nians and the young Czechs. On tne reassembling of the reichsrath a series of motions was offered aiming at the impeachment of ministers. The German popular party wants Count Baden), the premier, impeached because of the conduct of the representatives of the Government at public meetings. The German radicals and the section of ttie German opposition headed by Herr Sehoenerer demand his impeachment for prohibiting a meeting of German Bohemians, and they call for the impeachment of Count Gleispach, minister of justice; Dr. Bilinski, minister of finance, and Baron Glanz d’Eicha, minister of commerce, for an alleged violation of their ministerial powers by the issuance of a decree authorizing the official use of the Czech language in Bohemia. The immediate object of socialist democrats in the reichsrath, secretly aided by the remnant of the old German party, is to produce a cabinet crisis arid to bring about the absolute defeat of the Austrian prime minister, Count Casimer Badcni.