Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

An American negro murdered a policeman at Colon. Peasants in south Russia are burning and looting estates. Revolutions are threatened in Nicaragua and Guatemala. Vast quantities of hand bombs are being imported into Russia. Russian Liberals accuse the Czar of disregarding his own laws. The Chief of Police at Bialystock, Russia, has been assassinated. Twenf.y-six miners were killed by an explosion in a colliery in Wales. More than half of the "workmen in St. Petersburg are again on a strike. A Spanish anarchist attempted to blow up the Mexican legation in Paris. Lord Rosebery, in a speech in London. strongly opposed home rule for Ireland. The powers have rejected the proposition of Greece to annex the Island of Crete. Enemies of President Castro are preparing to launch a revolution in Venezuela. The Norwegian cabinet crisis has been settled by the formation of a coalition ministry. Men and women were herdod like sheep and shot and slashed by Russian soldiers at Tomsk. Five miners were killed and fifteen wounded in a fight with soldiers at Ekaftrinoslav, Russia. Bubonic plague is spreading rapidly in India. There were 34,<XMJ deaths in Calcutta last week. Influential French politicians mid newspapers are urging the Czar of Russia to sue for peace. Prominent lawyers and doctors were arrested nt Lodz. Russia, for stirring up the Polish language agitation. Four men wore killed ami fourteen injured by an explosion on a British submarine boat nt Queenstown. Englund. The Russian committee of ministers decided in favor of repealing nil religious regulations of a vexatious character. The heavy crop of American cotton has caused increased activity in mill building at Manchester, England. Four new mills are in course of erection. The Industrial Commission created by the Czar of Russia to investigate the strike troubles has been dissolved because the workmen refuted to appoint the membera allotted to H-md. Workmen and clerical employes of the Panama Canal and Raihoad are leaving, owing to general dissatisfaction over poor pay. overwork and bad treatment. In some case* agreements to send them home have not been kept.