Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1904 — FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOREIGN LANDS.

Prince Dolgorouki, who assaulted Count Lamsdorff, the Russian minister of foreign affairs, has been exiled to Archangel? It is said that two British yachtsmen are seriously contemplating challenging for the America’s cup, the world’s emblem of yachting supremacy. The dowager duchess of Abercorn is the oldest living British peeress. She has lived through five reigns, one of them the longest on record. Cab drivers in London, England, are again on strike. They say it-is impossible to pay the amounts fixed by the Asquith award ten years ago. The bubonic plague has broken out at Paita, Peru, on the border of Ecuador, and is raging with such violence as to occasion alarm in both countries. June 10 ten firemen died of the plague at Paita within three hours. Investigations made by representatives of European governments confirm the recent reports of shocking massacres of Armenians in the Sassun district of Asiatic Turkey by Turkish troops. According to some reports 43 villages were destroyed and the inhabitants killed. The British, French and Russian ambassadors at Constantinople have joined in remonstrances to the Turkish government against the perpetration of such atrocities. A treaty of arbitration between Spain and Portugal has recently been signed. It conforms with The Hague convention. Holland and Denmark have concluded a treaty of arbitration, by which they agree to submit to the tribunal of The Hague all differences which cannot be settled by the ordinary processes of diplomacy. The treaty is broader than most agreements of the kind, and the

only cases excluded are those in which the vital interests or honor of either party are involved. Such a secrecy about their affairs is maintained by the Tibetans that, according to a correspondent of the Loudon Times, the fact that they have a postal system with properly authorized government stamps has only just leaked out. A photograph of a Tibetan stamp shows it to be merely a native character impressed in red sealing wax. A missionary says that the sender of a letter in Tibet takes it to the nearest official postoffice, pays the postage, and then the letter is impressed with the seal and duly forwarded. It is announced that Earl Grey, lord lieutenant of Northumberland, will succeed the Earl of Minto as Governor General of Canada when Lord Minto’s term expires next Ooteber. Earl Grey is a brother-in-law of Lord Minto. He was a member of Parliament 1880-80, and one of the original promoters of the South African Chartered Company, and administrator of Rhodesia, 1896-98. Recently he has been actively Identified with the interesting movement of the Public House Trust Company of England, for the establishment of municipal saloons to discourage the sale of intoxicating liquor, and to promote the use of tea and coffee m substitutes.