Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Duchess of Teek, cousin of Queen Victoria, sister of the Duke of Cambridge and mother-in-law of the Duke of York, died at the White lodge in Richmond, England. The national assembly in Guatemala has authorized President Barrios to continue in office another term without even going through the formality of an election by the people. Gen. Weylcr has been ordered V> remain in Havana until Gen. Blanco arrives. This may mean that Weyler is to be sent home under arrest for refusing to obey the order to give command to Gen. Castellanos. The British Official Gazette? announces that King Menelik of Abyssinia has been appointed a knight of the grand cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. Gebrge. Hon. T. W. Taylor, chief justice of Manitoba, has been knighted. The British Board of Trade has refused to grant a yacht master's certificate to Lady Ernestine Brudenell-Bruce, a yachtswoman who had prepared herself to undergo all thd examinations requisite for a master’s certificate. The refusal of the Czar and Czarina to receive the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden at Darmstadt after the latter had intimated to theif Russian majesties a desire to visit them is vigorously criticised by the German press. The newspapers of Paris publish a telegram from Saragossa, Spain, declaring that the King of Siam, who has been visiting Spain and Portugal, has condemned a member of his suite to be executed for a breach of etiquette committed at Lisbon. Dr. Otto Nordcnskijold, the well-known antarctic explorer, will superintend an expedition, to be fitted out at the joint expense of Norway and Sweden, to ascertain whether any trace of Prof. Andree’s balloon can be found near Prince Charles promontory. Three French missions are now on their way to Khartoum, by forced marches, as the result of an understanding with the mahdi, reached in 1896, by which France recognizes the Soudan as an independent State under the suzerainty of the Sultan of Turkey, in return for certain concessions. Andrew Carnegie, according to a Paris ■dispatch, has offered the Carnegie armor plate works to the United States Government. If the offer is not accepted the firm will sell them abroad. He says lie only took up the armor business from a sense of duty to his country, and that the works have never paid. Consul Lincoln, at Antwerp, Belgium, in a report to the State Department at Washington, says that one of the matters now interesting importers is the restriction thrown in the way of the import of ■cattle from both North and South America on hygienic grounds. The Antwerp chamber of commerce is doing all in its power to remove the restrictions. There has "been a large increase in the importation of wheat from the United States, also of rye, barley, corn and oats. The United States furnishes a considerable amount of cast steel, petroleum and tobacco.