Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Herr Trojan, editor of the Kladderdatsch, hns been sentenced ut Berlin to two months' imprisonment in a fortress for leze uiajeste in cartooning Emperor William. Baron von Bulow, Gerniun minister for foreign affairs, declared before the reichatug budget committee that there had never been relations of any kind between German representatives or agents and Dreyfus. M. Gallia, representing several daily papers iu l’aris, has come to this country t* study economic conditions in order to encourage French public spirit to establish closer commercial relutious with the United States. Minister Woodford hns cabled to the Department of Stnte that the Governmeut of Spain has consented to negotiate n commercial treaty with the United States on the basis of reciprocity, with schedules for Cuba and the peninsuln. Richard Tate, the absconding State Treasurer of Kentucky, who has uot been beard of for many years, Is Icgnlly dead. At lonst the Connecticut Life Insurance Comiuiuy admits him dead and will pay a policy. Tate is thought to bo in Japan. Russia Is about to present a to Turkey demanding payment of Jbc whole balnuce of the indemnity of the ltusso-Turk-ish war, amounting to $140,000,000, with a view of making the sultan more docile in the settlement of the Cretan question. A London special cable to « New York (taper says: “Thr Loudon Government

has long saspected that Russian intrigues were back of thl&i rebellious outbreaks of the semi-savage tribesmen of Baluchistan, along the borders of India. The suspicion has been proved to be correct. Word came from Muscat, Gulf of Oman, that ‘the British gunboat Lapwing has seized the steamer Baluchistan, off there, and her cargo of arms and ammunition has been confiscated. Her cargo is held by the British consul.! The presumption here was that the cargo of arms and ammuniijon seized by the Lapwing was intended for the use of the insurgents tan, who have recently been giving considerable trouble to the British, and this belief was heightened when the cargo, which, was consigned to a dozen different Russian firms, was found to consist largely pf the latest style British rifles. The presence of these rifles in the hands of the insurgent tribesmen during the recent engagement between British troops and Afridis mystified the former. Now the mystery is cleared away and the plain, black fact stands out that the czar’s government has aided and abetted the foes of Great Britain.”