Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A puppet theater at Dervio, a town on the L&ke of Como, took fire during a performance, and forty-seven persons perished, while twelve others were wounded. During a thunder-storm at Chatham, England, four soldiers were killed by lightning. A terrible affray occurred at the Curragh of Kildare, between a party of North Mayo men and Dublin militiamen. It originated in a gambling dispute, during which the Mayo men called the Dublin men “Careys” and “Invinciblea ” Five men were killed. The fight lasted over an hour, each side using stones and firearms freely. The conflict was only quelled by the officers threatening to fire upon the men. A woman’s rights meeting was held at London, at which Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton made addressee Parnell,in a political speech at Monaghan, said it was the purpose of his party to improve the Land act so that tenants would get a reduction of 50 per cent. Cable dispatches report that the panic over the plague in Egypt has spread throughout Europe. The German Government has sent medical experts to Damietta to investigate and report whether the fatal malady nowraging there is veritable cholera The Turkish, French, Italian, and Austrian Governments have ordered strict quarantine against all vessels arriving from

African ports. A dispatch from Damietta says that dty is being rapidly deserted. All steamship heaths for a week hence are already engaged. One hundred and eighty refugees from there are quarantined in the vicinity of Port Said. Many fatal cases ot cholera are from Port Said, Rosetta and Mansurah. A commission has been formed to provide means for protecting Alexandria against the malady. Another cable company lyts been formed in London to lay two submarine wires between Great Britain and this country. The new company has » capital of £l,500,000. Negotiations between Russia and the Vatican have been concluded. Freedom in matters of faith is conceded, but no interference by the church with questions of state will be tolerated. Many persons have been arrested in Germany for being connected a with conspiracy which has for its purpose the betrayal of military secrets. An exploring party has left Melbourne, Australia, for New Guinea for the purpose of formally annexing the unoccupied portion of the island to the British empire. Mr. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, stated in the House of Commons that no work-house inmates had been sent out by the steamer Anchoria; that all emigrants forwarded by the Commissioners had been supplied with funds, and that no paupers had been sent by the Board of Guardians. A desperate attempt was made in the carriage of a railway-train running from Calais to Paris to murder and rob the Rev. Mr. Witchborne, an English clergyman. The murderer attacked Mr. Witchborne with a chisel, stabbing him five times The assasin tried to make his escape when the train arrived at Amiens, but was captured after a terrific struggle.