Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Miss Clara Barton has given n contract to a large bakery at Havana to intake crackers for the reconccntrados. A Kpaniah newspaper announces that the last two descendants of Christopher Coluuibtffi nre now occupants of a poorhouse at Cadis. The United Stntes cruiser Montgomery sailed from Port an Prince under cipher orders received from Washington. It is believed that her destination is Havana. lord Salisbury and his son, Her. Lord William Guscoyne-Cecil, bad a narrow escape from injury. Their brougham was demolished by the blowing shut of u heavy iron gate. England is negotiating with China to* open Yuen-Ghau-Fu, iu the Province of Hu-Nan, as n treaty port, and is negotiating also ou the subject of the unvigatiou of inland waters. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt was operated upon at Dr. l’ozzi’s hospital In Paris. The cyst was removed with complete success. Dr. Voatl hopes that Mme. Bernhardt will be able to resume her professional work iu April. The. latest disiwtches from Guatemala state that anarchy relgus throughout the country. This is the direct result of the assassination of President Barrios and .the plottlug of leaders to get into power in the republic. ( , At a quarter of 10 o'clock the other evening n terrible explosion took place on Itonrd the United States cruiser Maine in l|nvana harbor. Many were killed or wounded. As yet the cause of the explosion is not nppnretit. At Kingston, Jamaica, a filibustering expedition, destined for Cuba', has been

intercepted by theauthorities.and a on an* tity of arms and ammunition seized. The American schooner Cora M., Capt. Mitchell, last reported at Wilmington, N. C., is implicated. Ensign Joseph C. Breckenridge, executive officer of the torpedo bqnt Cashing, was washed overboard and drowned during the passage from Key West to Havana. The j Cushing arrived in Havana with the body and signaled the Maine for medical assistance, Efforts to resuscitate Ensign Breckenridge were useless. The Paris ministry of finance recently instituted an inquiry to learn the amount of gold in circulation. It has ascertained that there is $800,000,000 worth bearing the French stamp. It is claimed that this is the record amount. It is stated that the United'States has $720,000,000, Germany $080,000,000, and Great Britain and Russia ${500,000,000 each. The Campagnie Generale Transatlantique steamer Flachat, bound from Marseilles for Colon, was totally wrecked on Anaga point, Teneriffe, Canary Islands. Her captain, second officer, eleven of her crew and one passenger were saved. Thir-ty-eight of the crew and forty-nine passengers were lost. The Flachat was a stem screw, iron vessel of 1,239 tons net and 2,175 tons gross register. She was 300 feet long by 3G feet beam and 25.5 feet depth of hold. The Flachat struck on the point during a thick fog and soon broke in two. The steamer Susu brought the fourteen survivors to Santa Cruz, and, after landing them, returned to the scene of the disaster.