Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1898 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

—China has agreed to alPthe Russian demands, including leases of Port 'Arthur and Ta-Lien-Wan for twenty-five years. Chili has decided not to go to \Var with reru, but will return to her the provinces . of Tacna and Aric-a without a plebiscite. The Countess of Warwick, formerly Lady Brooke, who has been treated by the Schcnck system, has given birth to a son. Venezuela has issued a decree confer ring the order of the Cross of Bolivar, second class —which is limited to 100 —upon United States Minister Loomis. A New York Herald correspondent believes that Lord- Salisbury is soon to resign the British premiership, and that he will be succeeded by the Duke of Devonshire. The General Transatlantic Company’s mail steamer Vilie de Rome has been wrecked off Port Mahon, Balearic Islands. There was no loss of life, and the mails were saved. The Vienna newspapers announce that Japan, between 1895 and 1905, will have devoted 193,000,000 yen to the building of warships. Forty-seven have already been ordered, with short terms of delivery, in England, France, Germany and the United States. ‘ It is now considered certain that the Northern Pacific steamer Pelicau, 102 days out from Tacoma for Tien-Tsin, was wrecked and disabled last October off the coast of the Aleutian Islands. An empty lifeboat, supposed to belong to the Pelican, was sighted by Capt. Helm of the ship Falkirk, which has arrived from Shanghai.