Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

An unparalleled crime is reported by cable from Breslau, Germany. The wife of a hotel-keeper called her five children to her and carefully washed and dressed them in their best clothe& She then led them to the attic, where six ropes were suspended from a .beam. A rude bench had been placed underneath the improvised gallows-tree. On this she made the children stand while she adjusted the nooses around their necks. After the crazy mother had made all ready she mounted the form herself, fastened the end the sixth rope around her own neck, and kicked the support away. The ghastly sight was first seen by one of the domestics. All were dead. For some time previous the woman had been acting strangely, and was undoubtedly insane at the time she committed the deed. O’Donnell, who killed Informer Carey, will be tried in England. Senator Windom was banqueted in London. Four members of Parliament and Senator Hawley were present Mr. Collings, an English Liberal member, announced in the Commons the other day that at the next session he wduld introduce a resolution granting home-rule to Ireland. Thirty miners were killed by an explosion in a colliery near Cardiff, Wales. The French are in possession of Haiduong, Tonquin, and in the fight for Its capture also took 150 cannon and $50,000 in Anam money. The attack of the North German Gazette on France has caused a commotion in Europe, resulting in a decline of prices in the exchanges of Paris, Vienna and Berlin. The French press says Bismarck is seeking a pretext for war; Austrian journals ask if hostilities are intended; while the English newspapers think that, as a warning to trance, it has been overdone. Count de Chambord has ended his earthly career, retaining consciousness to within a moment of dissolution. He was born in the Tuilleries in 1820, and was baptized with water brought from the Jordan. He recently designated Count de Paris to succeed him as the head of the Royal House of France. Sir Stafford Northcote steps aside as leader of the English Tories. The steamer lonia arrived at Plymouth, England, forty-five days from New Zealand, with 13,000 frozen carcasses of sheep. Something like the Bulgarian atrocities which gave an excuse for the wars of 1876 and 1877 is reported from Turkey once more. Ninety-two Christians have been murdered in one district of Albania. Twenty-three villages have been abandoned. The Turkish officials wink at the slaughter and persecute the Christian priests. The Queen of Ronmania has returned to her father, .and the King seeks the consent of the Pope to an annullment of the marriage Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, has assumed a dictatorial authority in the Congo region. It is reported that he has closed the river to commerce The latest American freak in Paris was that of a lady well-known in society, who appeared at a ball in a costume of white kid fitting like a glove In a collision in the English channel between the French steamer St Germain and the English steamer Woodburn, the latter sank and eighteen of her crew were drowned. At a conferance of Irish members of

Parliament a programme was prepared for the convention of the Irish National League of Great Britain Sept 27. The programing demands self-government for Ireland, and direct representation of the Irish laboring class in Parliament In a speech proroguing Parliament, Queen Victoria recognizes progress in the reorganization of Egypt, whose occupancy is declared to be only temporary; differences with France in regard to Madagascar will be satisfactorily settled, she believes, and there la a marked diminution in agrarian crime in Ireland