Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Investigation of the Maine wreck so far seems to indicate that the vessel was blown up from a source outside the ship. Dr. Saunrelli i* reported to be meeting with great success in Brazil in his work of preventing and curing yellow fever by Ids new serum. An American consul to the Azores, while visiting in'Lisbon, Portugal, had an altercation with a cab driver and was locked up for a few hours. Consul Geperal Lee lias notitied Americans in Havana to remove their families to a place of safety. He fears nujoutbreak by volunteers and Weylerites. Citizens of Switzerland, by a popular -rote of 384.14 t! to 177,130, have approved tlio proposed State purchase of railroads lui tin l republic nt n cost of about $200,jjoo.ooo. The Paris court has just handed down a decision favoring the heirs in the contest over the will of the late Dr. Evans, the celebrated American dentist, who died recently in the French capital. The Pekin correspondent of the London Times sn.vs that China hus agreed to open nil her inland waters to navigation by steamers, whether foreign or native

owned, under regulations to be framed subsequently. The British ship Asia, Capt. G. N. Dakin, bound from Manila for Boston, has been wrecked somewhere in the vicinity**t)f Nantucket and her entire crefw of twenty men and Capt. Dakin’s wife and three children have been lost. The Asia has been for a month. Messrs. Zola and Perreux, charged by the French Government with making libellous comments on the conduct of the Esterhaey court martial, were found guilty by the jury. Zola was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and fined 3,000 francs and Perreux received a sentence of four months’ imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 francs.