Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1907 — FROM FOREIGN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN

The Finnish Diet has opposed the demand of the Czar’s government for an appropriation of $4,000,000 to support the military service of the Russian Empire. The first military dirigible balloon built in England made two successful trial trips the other day, thus bringing Great Britain into line-with France and Germany in the matter of aerial war machinery. The British balloon, which 1b sausage shape and 100 feet long hy 30 feet In diameter, with capacity of 75,000 cubit feet, with car made of aluminum and canvas, went up to the distance of 500 feet in the presence of a great throng of people and performed various revolutions with and against the wind, and returned to the starting point. She dipped and rose with the greatest ease and reached a pace of twelve miles an hour. At one time the vessel turned around in its own length. F. S. Cody, an American, is the Inventor. - , l_ The Zemstvo Congress at Moscow has rejected the latest proposal of Premiei Stolypin for local self-government, is which persons of all ranks should co-op erate on equal terms. The Liberals de manded that the suffrage be given t< women also. \ \ The fourth member of the band of Ruk sian officials which tortured Marls Spiri donovo, the assassin of Gen. Lugsnvonk> has been killed by the Terrorists, w) vowed to svengs the Sufferings of th woman, who is now spoken of as it Russian Joan sfin.