Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1904 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

The French government will probably rehabilitate Dreyfus. The Bishop of Ascoli lias asked the Pope to help make J. I’. Morgan give up tiie stolen cope. San Domingo will pay the $4.505),000 claims of the San Domingo Improvement Company. The Chinese outbreak at Shantung involves about 19.05)0 Chinese, and missionaries are fleeing. The zemstvos throughout Russi. are ii eel a tilling the program announced by Minister Mirsky. Rats give trouble in the Loudon under; omul railway, by eating the rubber iiiHlliatjioii off the wires. The ‘•government at Tangle/ lias stopped shipments from port to port, and a revolution is reported likely. At least fifteen men were killed and forty injured by the collapse of a new building at Santiago, Chili. Italian Catholics think that *if the Pope would permit them to vote, it would help the cause of the Vatican. It is denied that Emperor William is in foul health and that another operation nill lie iierfonned on his throat. England has come to see that the talk of danger of starvation among tiie industrial population has some foundation. Republicans and Socialist* Mill run separate tickets in the Italian elections, thus helping the liberal aud constitutional elements. The Duchess of Manchester created a sensation in England by declining an in- \ itation to limit with the King aud Qncen around Balmoral. Incendiary pamphlets are being circulated in several Russian province* by Jewish bands, asserting that th* ouly remedy lies in a revolution.